Attar/Mukhallat of the Day

[Broey_J]

Was recently shopping on Elixir Attar, when I stumbled across Spirit of the Hellenic Republic. As a Greek guy, I simply couldn't resist and ordered a 3 gram vial.

In short, it's a wonderful and very interesting chypre that cuts to the heart of the Mediterranean concept that formed the basis of this family of scents. Where the original Coty Chypre (Cyprus) used cistus as its resinous material, Ahmed and co. added a Greek spin by using mastic instead. Mastic is a bit of a difficult to define material for me, being kind of musky, pine-y, and sweet all at once. Spirit of the Hellenic Republic takes these characteristics and builds an accord for each. Citruses and rose, which play a sweetly soapy contrast to the green and musky accords. Tarragon, ylang-ylang, and oakmoss are a sweet and bitter green accord that blends beautifully with the coniferous notes in mastic. Finally, indole and leathery notes from jasmine, sambac, champaca, and osmanthus play well with the sweetness of the mastic and ambergris in the base notes. As the scent dries down, the ambergris becomes a bit more prominent, and contributes a cooling ocean breeze to the composition. I find it a great unisex scent that really captures the essence of both the beautiful flowers, and the bitter green evergreens and olive groves of the Greek islands. I'm a very happy customer!

 

[Faheem]

'Musk Noir' by Imperial Oud - a sample that was kindly included in a recent purchase. Smells absolutely divine - @Faheem said it was a musk/jasmine blend - not sure if there's anything else in here but this is really beautiful 😀

I'm happy that you guys are enjoying it. I used a musk sandalwood base from 2017 in this so the musk is super strong. Ingredients include Kashmiri/Tibetan musk, Ambergris, Hindi oud, Mysore sandalwood,Jasmine, Pink pepper and few others.

 

[Taesik Yun]

@ParadiseofOils 's rose+musk spray. this is a simple blend but gorgeous. nice rose-y furry sweet musk and vibrant bright rose blended really nicely in this one.

 

[Rai Munir]

Co-distilled Oils by Natural Pure Aroma (Mr Ziyad):

Today's evening, I wore two oils/ attars.
1. Ceylon Sandal and Frangipani distilled in Agarwood hydrosol; this is why three individual tones don't smell scattered at all.

2. Ceylon Santal and Vanilla! It is an absolutely new experience that my memory has got registered. Ziyad's mastery of distilling Ceylon Santal is flawless, but these new ventures, Co-distillation and blending freshly distilled oils in separator, are loveable.

This man and his oils made me understand the differences in copper distilled and stainless steel pot distilled oils and hydro and steam distillations.

 

[Himanshu Sharma]

2 Sprays of Areej's War and Peace

It reminds me of grand dad. Perhaps, it was his hair oil or some cologne he used to wear. His room used to smell like this.
He was a university chancellor and used to travel a lot. Specially, to Germany and Russia. Maybe, he used to buy some good stuff from there.
Rose and iris's powderiness suspended into this cloud of musks supported by ambers create an incredible accord.

 

[Bombay]

@ParadiseofOils 's rose+musk spray. this is a simple blend but gorgeous. nice rose-y furry sweet musk and vibrant bright rose blended really nicely in this one.

Very mellow on my skin, how many sprays did you go for kind Sir.

 

[Taesik Yun]

Very mellow on my skin, how many sprays did you go for kind Sir.

four sprays on each arm 😜

 

[Bombay]

four sprays on each arm 😜

😀 nice

 

[Tilt]

Mellifluence - Arktos Imperial.

Not my favourite from Mellifluence, but put it on yesterday evening in the heat of an Italian evening. Has developed very nicely over the last year and I woke up this morning to the smell of that wonderful sandalwood Abdullah uses in his blends.

 

[Proust Madeleine]

With the Oud that I ordered from ASO, they included a sample of Yaqoot II. I thought WOW this is waaaaaay beyond my funk threshold. Today I was wearing an old favorite, Jubilation XV, and as the drydown came on, I took one grain of musk from the Yaqoot vial and rubbed it into the crook of my arm, and another grain for the other. It made the perfume bloom in a beautiful chocolate musky cloud. Wonderful.

 

[Taesik Yun]

A blue lotus flower graciously blooms. the sacred tears of the tree from earth's driest desert moist the bud with its invigorating, mind-clearing scent. a lady tilts the pot and pours milk into the pond.

An Egyptian anointing oil, Tutankhamun Blue Lotus.

 

[Ashfaque]

L'Heure D'Or (Sultan Pasha): castoreum done proper with leathery, bright and playful florals.

 

[Averroes]

RBO Agarwood & Sandalwood distillation 2020. I find it v wearable and invigorating. What I needed today.

 

[Oudamberlove]

Revisiting my Ghaliyah blends from 2018


#1, the oud (EO Assam Wilde) and a little rose is what dominates, the musk is just a hint.

#2, the Bengali oud works well in this blend,
it mingles with the other ingredients, creating more of an intriguing scent than #1.

But in both blends, the saffron has practically disappeared, making them not worthy to
represent “Al Ghaliyah”, so I should just call
them “G Blends”😬

 

[Bombay]

Adghal by Habzoud.. always wanted to know how musk in vetiver would smell. Well Adghal is answering it.. the blend is still maturing.

 

[Taesik Yun]

The rainy season started. needed some comforting ones.
Mellifluence's Santal de chocolate and Elixir's Cohiban coffee.
this combination works so well because they share similar chocolatey facets.

coffee, chocolate, jasmine, honey, cigar, vanilla. 😋 lovely lovely

 

[Sproaty]

Revisiting my Ghaliyah blends from 2018


#1, the oud (EO Assam Wilde) and a little rose is what dominates, the musk is just a hint.

#2, the Bengali oud works well in this blend,
it mingles with the other ingredients, creating more of an intriguing scent than #1.

But in both blends, the saffron has practically disappeared, making them not worthy to
represent “Al Ghaliyah”, so I should just call
them “G Blends”😬

I still have a few that you sent me, I'll have to give them a sniff too! 😀

Today I have swiped a Kinam/Frankincense blend (or codistill?) called "2 scents" by @EJayB (Olefaktory) - took some real deep whiffs and was knocked out / bit of a nice brain fuzz from the super lemony frank notes. This lemony/pine vibe has died off quickly and I guess the kinam is having its effect.
Having swiped the kinam oil that he very kindly sent me too on my other hand I'll be trying to see how this smell in isolation affects the frankincense.

Same with an oil from Habz - Sultan Hojari which is an Indonesian oud along with frankincense. I've not worn it much, or paid too much attention to it when I did wear it but can't exactly recall the effect that the oud had on the frank.

Also Ed very kindly sent me another called 'Cali Fresh' which I immediately picked up on the smell of weed, a suuuuper dank bud smell (which I love!) - and he confirmed a few other notes, douglas fir, vetiver, oud, ambergris - but hot damn this smells out of this world

 

[Tauhid Shaikh]

Agar Musk by Sharif Laroche. You will be surprised to see the quality for this price. I love this one.
His batches may vary significantly.

Has anyone tried this

 

[Lorenz_156]

Right wrist AA Kelantan
left wrist AA Khashab

a little disappointed ...
Khashab is close to Java but on first sight I like it more than Kelantan.

 

[OudForm]

Sacra Zensei by Yaaseen llc.

Choy luban, eucalyptus, siberian deermusk, ambergris, frankincense, sandalwood.


Top notes have hints of citrus and hojari frankincense then the dry down is sweet resinous & woody