007 (Hyde & Alchemy) Type: concentrated perfume oil No. 007 is a little bum fluff of a thing – a peachy honeysuckle that leans waxy rather than green or fresh.…
We have already extensively covered the flowers that Indians most value in traditional attar perfumery here, and here. However, mukhallat perfumery – perfumery rooted in the Middle East – displays slight but important differences…
Oriental Musk (Kuumba Made) Type: concentrated perfume oil Oriental Musk is a light, clean musk built around the idea of Egyptian skin musk but spruced up with some spice in the…
Kama (Ava Luxe) Type: concentrated perfume oil Kama is a musk fragrance with a briefly fecal topnote that sees it frequently compared to the famous Muscs Khoublai Khan by Serge…
010 (Hyde & Alchemy) Type: concentrated perfume oil No. 010 is a pink-smelling scent with a cheerful cherry blossom note pitched halfway between fruit and flower. The opening is not half…
From here on out, we are going to go material by material, grouped according to the most important scent families for attars, mukhallats, and concentrated perfume oils. Each section will start with a…
Musk in perfumery Musk is one of the four great animalic bases of perfumery, the other three being ambergris, civet, and castoreum. When smelled in isolation in their pure state, all four…
The final category of oil perfume is that of concentrated perfume oils. You might get to this section and groan. After all, are attars and mukhallats not concentrated perfume oils? The short answer…
Although I will be doing a much deeper dive on both sandalwood and oud in their respective sections, I wanted to use this chapter and the previous one as an introduction to the…
Sandalwood and oud are truly essential oils, in that they are the building blocks of their respective styles of perfumery. In traditional Indian attar perfumery, fragrant materials are distilled directly into sandalwood oil,…