Hind

beautiful, rose, sweet, slightly spicy, ambery fragrance. I bought a couple samples from this house and this is one of my favourites. I am not used to middle eastern perfumery but this!!!!! It's the rose, amber and spices for me. this lasts over 12 hours on my skin depending on where I apply it...my skin is very dry so it tends to eat fragrances. One of the earlier reviews said that it wraps you in a scent bubble and I totally agree. You can smell this wafting all around you for at least 4-5 hours, then it reduces to something just above a skin scent. On clothes, this baby last dayyyyysss. I wore this today mixed with Araweelo to work eh...who was smelling better than me??? nobody! I was a sweet, spicy, ambery, rose sack!

Glorious musk lollies with a complex, spicy progession, diverting to woody towards the end and finishing with sweet amber. Sophisticated with an interesting development. Definitely fascinating. This is one of those smells that will register differently in different cultures. Australians will get the lolly vibe and it will seem more frivolous I think to us than other cultures without exposure to musk lollies. This is definitely more feminine than masculine in a Western context. It is also a winter scent though I wear it in the heat and don't find it cloying. The dry down is long and magnificent, full of vanilla elements.

I am Australian and as soon as I applied this fragrance there was a burst of Musk lollies. This is everything an Oriental perfume should be. Musk, Amber, Sweet Rose, Sandalwood, I can't stop smelling my wrists. Being a perfume oil a little really does go a long way and I just apply this behind my ears, wrists and a little on my cleavage. I adore amber/sandalwood perfume, this is in the genre of Opium perfume the way it used to be years ago but this is better. I wore this 24 hours straight and it did not lose it's aroma until I showered the next morning.

Sweet, balmy, powdery Taif rose, with a gorgeous labdanum amber in the background. This one is actually pretty sweet, not in a gourmand way though. Hind has a lot of sillage to be honest, it wraps you around in a fluffy cloud of rose, amber and sandalwood. It feels comfortable and luxurious, I love it ! Edit : So far, this is my favourite of all the Al Fanransi's I've tried. It's not listed in the notes, but Hind becomes an ambergris fragrance after 4 hours : plush, toffy-like, slightly salted ambergris. Huge love for me !

This is one I'll always want in supply. It is so beautiful! I'm a spice lover, especially sweet spices, and this scent is the best done I've found. Sure there's also ambery, woodsy, rosey vibes, but the spices dominate to me. Yes, it's minty too. Some spices have a minty/menthol vibe so it could be a hint of black cardamom in there or something. This scent is hard to define but very enjoyable. This and Istanbul are my favorite of this house...and I'll always have some in my home, as long as they're available.