Anyone familiar with perfumery will recognise the construction on first wearing: it is a classic of the genre, reworked.
— A dazzling fruity opening — pineapple, apple, blackcurrant over a base of bergamot — which quickly swings over to a dry woody-musky accord.
— The heart is held by patchouli, softened with jasmine and rose. It is what gives that clean, held-together impression, a long way from the jam the fruit had suggested.
— The oakmoss and the ambergris in the base bring the mineral-salty signature, and the vanilla adds just enough roundness.
A daytime fragrance, for the office, for a white shirt. It works all year and particularly in spring.
Decent wear, frank projection on application and then more discreet.
The notes
Top — Bergamot, apple, pineapple, blackcurrant
Heart — Patchouli, jasmine, rose
Base — Musk, oakmoss, ambergris, vanilla
Olfactive family
Marine and chypre
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A honeyed tobacco, and that is the whole interest of this sheet: perfumery tobacco has nothing to do with the smell of a cigarette. It is a dried leaf, sweet, a little leathery, a little hay-like — the material you breathe in a cigar box you have just opened.
— The opening is fruity and sharp at once: the plum and the apple give the juice, the pink pepper and the cumin give the relief, the liquorice gives the black roundness.
— Then the labdanum and the amber lay down the warm carpet.
— The tobacco comes to settle on it, supported by honey, vanilla and sandalwood.
Register: autumn and winter, evenings, roll-neck jumpers and wool jackets. In the middle of August it will be heavy — that is the only honest criticism you can make of it.
This is an extrait de parfum. Two to three sprays are enough: reckon on a working day on the skin and longer still on a shirt collar.
The notes
Top — Plum, apple, cumin, pink pepper, liquorice
Heart — Labdanum, amber, ylang-ylang, patchouli
Base — Tobacco, honey, vanilla, sandalwood, cashmeran, musk
Olfactive family
Tobacco and coffee
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A rose-leather, cleanly built.
— The raspberry and the violet leaf open on a tart, green note, and the caraway slips a touch of aniseed in — an unexpected entrance for a fragrance called Oud.
— The heart is a frank Turkish rose, lifted with cardamom and lit by lily of the valley.
— And it is only in the base that the leather, the amber and the agarwood come up to give the weight. The oud here is not the subject, it is the foundation.
It is one of only two references in the house's numbered line, and a 50 ml format: a more compact bottle, extrait de parfum concentration, a gentler entry price than the 75 ml of the Shaghaf series.
Worn as well by a woman as by a man — the rose and the leather share the work. Mid-season and the cold season, morning or evening.
Average to long wear, measured projection.
The notes
Top — Raspberry, violet leaf, caraway
Heart — Turkish rose, cardamom, lily of the valley
Base — Amber, leather, agarwood
Olfactive family
Oud and precious woods
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