Chapter 25 of the Attar Guide: Floral Reviews (T-Y) - the last of the Floral Reviews and the last of the Attar Guide in 2021 - compares, inter alia, several Abdes Salaam Attar attars…
Chapter 24 of the Attar Guide: Floral Reviews (S) takes us from a room-busting 1970s-style rose chypre by Al Rehab that costs peanuts to the rare Sultan Pasha attar that got the better of…
Chpater 23 of the Attar Guide and we are in the P-R section of the Floral reviews, so gird your loins for lots and lots of rose this and rose that (and a couple…
Chapter 22 of the Attar Guide: Floral Reviews (M-O), featuring, inter alia, a very passable Noir de Noir dupe, a feral narcissus attar that may cause sexual hysteria and a perfume pretending to be…
The Attar Guide: Floral Reviews (J-L) takes us on a tour through several really trashy Malle dupe oils, mega-expensive jasmine niche oils, and some sublime gardenia attars by Strangelove NYC and Sultan Pasha. Read…
Eidyya (Amouage) Type: mukhallat Eidyya, a mukhallat presumably linked to the celebration of Eid or the giving of gifts for Eid, is a potent floral affair with a deeply…
Badar (Al Haramain) Type: mukhallat Badar is a honey-forward mukhallat that sounds more exciting than it really is. (It also looks more exciting than it is, packaged as it is…
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…