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05/20/2020
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A bitter berry basket
After I last wrote a commentary on a rolling-pen perfume from the UAE because of its excellent quality, I would like to draw your attention again today to an inexpensive perfume oil from Arab countries, namely Attar al Makkah from Oudh am Anfar. I maintain that on the one hand it is typically Arabic and very opulent. On the other hand it gets by without oud or anything else, but is rather floral and fruity. Please do not click away yet! If you think now, it is all about sweet-talking monotony, you are mistaken. I would hardly acquire that.
When the pyramid of fragrance speaks of berries, it seems to me that it means mainly blackberries and possibly even currants. The fragrance does not open with a fruity sweetness, but rather with this fruity acidity, as we know it from those two types of berries. These fruits have a very floral touch, but without drifting too much into the floral. Maybe mint can help here. I do not perceive it as cooling or olfactory, but the berries seem dimmed like the tobacco of a water pipe when mixed with mint. As with menthol, the tobacco tastes more digestible, respectively the scent has exactly that perceivable facet.
The woody or woody element is not neglected either, although it is more likely to ensure that the sweetness of the berries, which increases over time, is captured and tamed. One could say that the fruitiness and mint are diminishing. Basically a well-known pattern: overripe or basically ripening fruit will eventually correspond to this picture.
In general, the perfume oil is typically Arabic for me. It is very intense, rich and densely interwoven and very musky. This makes it appear filled to the brim with fragrances and symbolically pours out its cornucopia, Attar al Makkah is engaging. But yes, you won't find rose and oud and that's a nice change.
Undoubtedly a nice change, if it may be a linear and despite its fullness a simpler fragrance.
When the pyramid of fragrance speaks of berries, it seems to me that it means mainly blackberries and possibly even currants. The fragrance does not open with a fruity sweetness, but rather with this fruity acidity, as we know it from those two types of berries. These fruits have a very floral touch, but without drifting too much into the floral. Maybe mint can help here. I do not perceive it as cooling or olfactory, but the berries seem dimmed like the tobacco of a water pipe when mixed with mint. As with menthol, the tobacco tastes more digestible, respectively the scent has exactly that perceivable facet.
The woody or woody element is not neglected either, although it is more likely to ensure that the sweetness of the berries, which increases over time, is captured and tamed. One could say that the fruitiness and mint are diminishing. Basically a well-known pattern: overripe or basically ripening fruit will eventually correspond to this picture.
In general, the perfume oil is typically Arabic for me. It is very intense, rich and densely interwoven and very musky. This makes it appear filled to the brim with fragrances and symbolically pours out its cornucopia, Attar al Makkah is engaging. But yes, you won't find rose and oud and that's a nice change.
Undoubtedly a nice change, if it may be a linear and despite its fullness a simpler fragrance.
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