10/30/2020
Cravache
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Familiarity and the evening essence of the day experienced
I came into contact with the olfactory treasures of the Occident in my early youth. A key youthful experience was a long personal conversation with Jean-Paul Guerlain. Another key experience I was allowed to experience about 8 years ago: the discovery of the fragrances of Hind al Oud from Dubai. While high-priced fragrances from the Arabian region are generally oriented entirely or largely towards the European (or rather specifically the French) perfume tradition, the low-priced and often also the medium-priced fragrances from this region are unfortunately mostly of rather moderate quality. And often anything but an olfactory revelation.
Hind al Oud confidently orientates himself on the handicraft of Arabic perfumery without making any compromises in terms of quality. For European noses, the fragrances are undoubtedly unusual, strange, surprising, fascinating, exciting - comparable to the first reading of the Gilgamesh epic. If one lets oneself be seduced by the olfactory treasures of the Arabian scent culture, if one lets oneself be seduced by them, if one drops the prejudiced concept of the olfactory Orient, one is rewarded with a wonderful expansion of horizons into a region which is also the cradle of our occidental-European (scent) culture.
Na'em Al Oud evokes images of a large cow pasture where you want to rest. Surrounded by fragrant wide mats in rich summer flower colours, on the horizon the eternal snow of the Alpine peaks, deep blue sky. Until recently, majestic brown cows and some hares grazed on the cow pasture. On a sunny day, one sits relaxed in an evening dress or tuxedo on the edge of the warm and summery cow pasture. The smell of an old, splendid Emmental farmhouse decorated with flowers, whose wood tells the story of generations. The sun warms the face, the hair, the pasture, the old dark brown wood of the farmhouse. The scent of wood, the pasture, the cows, the flowers cuddles you up in the summer warmth of the pre-alpine nature.
If you like this direction of oud, you will find Na'em Al Oud very attractive. This kind of warm oud has the magic of love within it. If you don't like this kind of oud, you will find the scent as repulsive as an involuntary bath in cow dung. The perfumer of Na'em Al Oud must be an animal lover - or a friend of animal women (did Minotaurus have a cow-eyed sister?) If you work in an open-plan office or want to be nibbled on by a vegetarian, Na'em Al Oud should probably not be used.
The body-warm, animalistic oud note is the red thread running through the fragrance. Na'em Al Oud starts warm and spicy. Black pepper emphasizes the pleasantly charming, animalistic note of the oud after application. When the pepper has evaporated after a few minutes in the summer air, the fragrance develops in a fresh spicy direction (saffron, fruity like kiss-red lips). Musk is quickly added.
At the beginning of the fragrance process, the musk is noticeably more animalistic, without drifting off into a Mephistophelian animalism. The musk forms a bridge to the typical Arabic floral notes: A red rose with animalistic aspects and somewhat lustful body parts, as well as jasmine - elegant, warm, sensual, with light hay notes. Jasmine has not yet showered, the skin and hair smell of a mixture of familiarity and the evening essence of the day experienced. She sits on the big white musk bed in her dark evening dress. Between her lips she has a few black berries. One tries to pinch the berries with one's lips.
Towards the base, Na'em Al Oud becomes warmer, woodier and earthier - which again emphasizes the animalistic oud note a bit more. The erotic "useful area" of Na'em Al Oud is considerable: the perfume oil lasts forever on the skin, the sillage is strong.
Hind al Oud confidently orientates himself on the handicraft of Arabic perfumery without making any compromises in terms of quality. For European noses, the fragrances are undoubtedly unusual, strange, surprising, fascinating, exciting - comparable to the first reading of the Gilgamesh epic. If one lets oneself be seduced by the olfactory treasures of the Arabian scent culture, if one lets oneself be seduced by them, if one drops the prejudiced concept of the olfactory Orient, one is rewarded with a wonderful expansion of horizons into a region which is also the cradle of our occidental-European (scent) culture.
Na'em Al Oud evokes images of a large cow pasture where you want to rest. Surrounded by fragrant wide mats in rich summer flower colours, on the horizon the eternal snow of the Alpine peaks, deep blue sky. Until recently, majestic brown cows and some hares grazed on the cow pasture. On a sunny day, one sits relaxed in an evening dress or tuxedo on the edge of the warm and summery cow pasture. The smell of an old, splendid Emmental farmhouse decorated with flowers, whose wood tells the story of generations. The sun warms the face, the hair, the pasture, the old dark brown wood of the farmhouse. The scent of wood, the pasture, the cows, the flowers cuddles you up in the summer warmth of the pre-alpine nature.
If you like this direction of oud, you will find Na'em Al Oud very attractive. This kind of warm oud has the magic of love within it. If you don't like this kind of oud, you will find the scent as repulsive as an involuntary bath in cow dung. The perfumer of Na'em Al Oud must be an animal lover - or a friend of animal women (did Minotaurus have a cow-eyed sister?) If you work in an open-plan office or want to be nibbled on by a vegetarian, Na'em Al Oud should probably not be used.
The body-warm, animalistic oud note is the red thread running through the fragrance. Na'em Al Oud starts warm and spicy. Black pepper emphasizes the pleasantly charming, animalistic note of the oud after application. When the pepper has evaporated after a few minutes in the summer air, the fragrance develops in a fresh spicy direction (saffron, fruity like kiss-red lips). Musk is quickly added.
At the beginning of the fragrance process, the musk is noticeably more animalistic, without drifting off into a Mephistophelian animalism. The musk forms a bridge to the typical Arabic floral notes: A red rose with animalistic aspects and somewhat lustful body parts, as well as jasmine - elegant, warm, sensual, with light hay notes. Jasmine has not yet showered, the skin and hair smell of a mixture of familiarity and the evening essence of the day experienced. She sits on the big white musk bed in her dark evening dress. Between her lips she has a few black berries. One tries to pinch the berries with one's lips.
Towards the base, Na'em Al Oud becomes warmer, woodier and earthier - which again emphasizes the animalistic oud note a bit more. The erotic "useful area" of Na'em Al Oud is considerable: the perfume oil lasts forever on the skin, the sillage is strong.
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