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Jabari by MacBancy Perfumes

Where most people start

Coercive Magnet bottle

Coercive Magnet

GH₵600

A warm and addictive fragrance built around spice, creamy sweetness and dark woods. Sweet chestnut and vanilla meet leather and oud, creating a deep, commanding scent with richness and character. Warm, spicy, gourmand, woody, leathery. A tall clear flacon with a black and gold cap, its cream label carrying the two crowned faces that mark the line, presented in a magenta drawer box.

Marsandi Perfumes

What we actually stock

Perfume District carries 3 independent houses: MacBancy Perfumes, Marsandi Perfumes, Mars Dvsn. Between them that is 27 fragrances, from single bottles to boxed presentation sets.

We buy in small runs rather than by the pallet, so the shelf moves and things do sell out. Anything we have not yet priced publicly is marked on request, and we will quote the same day.

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MacBancy Collection de Afric, the boxed set of five
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MacBancy Perfumes

Bold African royal scents

Founded in Ghana, MacBancy builds its fragrances around the continent's own materials: rare herbs, spices and botanicals, worked into scents that carry a story. The house is openly trying to build an African fragrance hub, and the range runs from the Spirit of Timbuktu line through to boxed gift collections.

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Marsandi Perfumes

Golden Trail, Coercive Magnet, Colors of Niani

Marsandi bottles its eau de parfum under a leaping-cheetah mark and works in three lines. Golden Trail runs to three expressions in a squat apothecary flacon with a contrast cap, each boxed with its own desert artwork. Coercive Magnet is marked with two crowned faces meeting and held in a tall rectangular flacon with a black and gold cap. Colors of Niani is sold as boxed sets rather than single bottles.

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Mars Dvsn

Collaboration-led, out of Mars.Retail

Mars Dvsn grew out of Mars.Retail and works by collaboration: an idea becomes a product with another house rather than alone. UnCut Passion, made with Marsandi, is the first release, an extrait de parfum in a tall apothecary flacon.

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The shelf, by family

Every fragrance on the shelf sits in one of six families. Pick the one you already know you like and start there.

Rose, tuberose, linden, mimosa. The florals here keep their green stems and a little indole, so they read like cut flowers rather than fabric softener.

Golden Trail Seduction
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Golden Trail Seduction

Effortlessly attractive

Sample vials laid out on a tray
The Discovery Set

Eight 2ml sprays, GH₵450

A vial from each house, chosen to cover the range. Wear them for a week, then put the GH₵450 toward your first full bottle. It comes back in full.

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