Fatima Blend

This is a very striking and pleasant citrusy floral wood oil attar. It opens with mouth watering notes of lemon, tangerine, and what feels like orange blossom which then meld into a pretty green jasmine, maybe some pale pink rose, over a fruity musk blended seamlessly with glowing ambergris and what feels to me like a gently supporting nuance of oud wood. It's fresh, a little soapy but it's so rich that its undeniably a perfume--and it sticks around. I think it's feminine, sparkling, inviting, and easy to breathe--meaning it's refreshing not cloying. Perhaps that comes from carnation (which a Basenotes reviewer suggested it might have). Fatima feels like its made with lovely natural materials. Probably magic in spring and also in winter.

Light semi-sour citrus with a backing of dry woods and white musk. It's not bad, but there's something screechy about the way the woods are presented, I'm not going to lie and pretend I know anything about synths but it feels like there is something otherworldly hovering in the fourth dimension of the space-time continuum projecting a quantum distortion into the centre of my feeble goopy human brain, and it burns... Okay maybe I'm being unfair, if I smelt this on someone else I'd think it was better than 90% of the dreck out there, but personally I couldn't be followed by it for a day. Price more than reasonable if you click with it.