Al Bashiq

I love a good leather fragrance and this fits the bill here! Just first impressions as it arrived within the week. I have 2 fragrances that smell similar to this: Lattafa Al Areeq Silver and Fragrance World Spectre. The former smells the closest to this, but after smelling Al Bashiq, it isn't nearly as well blended nor does it have the depth that AB has. Spectre has the depth, but in a more playful way with the sugar cube. Al Bashiq is a very in-depth smell of leather surrounded by oud, incense smoke, and a combo of dark fresh fruits and dried fruits. I didn't get the opportunity to sit with this throughout the lifespan but in the mid, I was getting whiffs of chocolate nuances, cinnamon, and cardamom. For a dark fragrance, this very smooth and intriguing because it does progress as it settles. I love the adventure this fragrance leads my nose into. I'll return in a few weeks with a review of the whole lifespan. For leather lovers, give this a sample at the least...especially if you're into darker notes. 1/2/2026: This is an amazing fragrance! I detect nothing fecal or barny about this scent. This is coming from someone with Dahn Al Ouds in the collection... Maybe challenging for those just used to fresh blue scents. Just an incensy, complex leather, with darkness and charm. Insane performance and longevity...easy wafts the first 2 to 3 hours, lasting until a shower.

🦋tai nišinis aromatas. labai turtingas, gilus, sodrus, tamsus ir šiltas. atspindintis senovinę arabiškos kultūros dvasią. panašus savo kryptimi į prabangių amouage sodrių arabiško stiliaus aromatų kompozicijas. skirtas tik tai vertinantiems, todėl ne visiems. Aromate dominuoja gana grubios odos kvapas, kurį iš pradžių apgaubia rožė, smilkalai, labdanumas, mira ir daugybė kitų ingredientų. Po kurio laiko išryškėja labai stipri išdirbtos odos aromato bazė, kuri nėra švelni, bet gruboka ir valdinga 🍁 💮 This niche fragrance is rich, deep, and unapologetically dark. It’s an olfactive journey back to the ancient spirit of Arabic culture, reminiscent of the opulent Amouage masterpieces. 🕌 Not for the faint of heart, but for those who truly appreciate perfume artistry. It opens with a complex blend of rose, incense, and myrrh, which slowly gives way to a bold, rugged leather base. It’s raw, commanding, and powerful. 🔥 🌿

It’s an interesting business model to make the same scent at 3 completely different price points, essentially cloning your own niche brand. Are Al Bashiq, Meydan, and Abjar all exactly the same? No. Al Bashiq is actually what I had hoped Meydan would have been and I often got inconsistent performance with Meydan; which I haven’t noticed with Al Bashiq. Al Bashiq is a complex scent at this price point with really remarkable quality and is definitely not linear. It’s unmistakably leather but also spicy, fruity, floral, and with a touch of oud. It opens very strong leather but that starts to take a back seat in the dry down to a beautiful mix of resins, woods, amber accord, and florals. I paid just $40 for my bottle. It really makes you question if they can make this at this price point what is the justification for over $1k USD for Abjar (or any fragrance for that matter)?

So this is my third Nabeel so far(I have a fourth as well), and this one may be my favorite. I have Maghateer(love it), Irth(really love it), Asateer(haven't tried), and this one Al Bashiq. This one is so my jam, and as much as I love the other two this one is up my alley more. I'm a powerhouse guy especially 80's powerhouses. This reminds me of an 80's powerhouse for sure. It's leathery, woody, amber, and a little smoky. It's actually a whole lot of things. It's got a lot going on. I'm primarily picking up leather and woods though. I definitely get a hint of cypress and smoke(love those notes). This is a beast of a fragrance not for everyone. If you like Halston Z-14, Aramis, Bogart Witness, or Quorum this is right up your alley.

this one is Challenging, this is not for the average Nose and it is not for complement seekers, these are Niche quality and this one follows that without exception!! this one is for those who loves and a Connoisseur fragrances, a well seasoned Nose per say to appreciate.. I love it my self and will layer it of frag's I find lack depth and body! the main thing most will get is Castoreum and a Vic's Vapor rub (Eucalyptus) heavy how ever the trained Nose will find the Magic in this one with all the Resinous Facets and dense gummy base.! this is a true Fragheads fragrance a Master piece!!! not for the dabbler in the hobby!

This is a rich dark beauty in the same family as its more famous and illustrious compatriots like Amouage Interlude Man O.G and Oud for Greatness.This is a gutsy ballsy smokey oud with nearly all the resins in existence listed with a beautiful underlining but natural smelling sweetness.This is a must have if you enjoy dark smokey brooding pensive ouds that are challenging but wearable.Truly a distinctive one of a kind scent.

I smelt this on my then boyfriend, now husband. I now use this whenever he is away, just to feel him on me. This smells extremely niche and expensive. Can be easily layered. Try it with Ganymede and you will love it. It also works with a gourmand. Infinite possibilities. I will always love this fragrance. Beast mode projection!! Go easy on the sprays.

Versatile niche leather fragrance which is strong long lasting and distinctive but not off putting.If you are a man that wants a distinct signature worth scent that is slightly challenging but not replusive this is for you

I don’t know why anyone hasn’t said this but I think this smells so close to halfeti by penhaligons. Performance is beast mode for the price it’s a bargain. Really impressed by this.

All notes in this are very well balanced and work in harmony. This perfume has many facets which it reveals throughout the wearing. It is not challenging and it will garner you compliments. Cold season is the best suited for this fragrance although you can wear it in fall and spring as well. Overall feel of this fragrance is royal and it's a masterpiece.

This is very masculine, very challenging and niche quality. It's a mix between interlude and Gucci guilty absolute.

I hope you like wickedly strong offensive oud! Nabeel’s Al Bashiq is an utter nuclear bomb of oud, and wow is it unnecessarily potent with absolutely eternal longevity. I’m 100% confident that this perfume will fill very large rooms. And you can forget about that entire elaborate scent pyramid because this perfume showcases a most smelly oud note. I love me some oud however, this variety, I do not, nor will I ever. I’ve sampled a few Ajmal’s that use this caliber of oud and it is my least favorite verging directly on totally unwearable. It’s way too bizarre smelly to even be considered as public friendly, and just way too strong. Wearing this to work will either get you sent home immediately, or canned. It smells like the most pungent halitosis imaginable. I mean, we’re talking about the most atomic, offensive, stinky breath including an hellacious case of gingivitis for the books and a mouth full of rotten teeth that you could wrap that pretty little brain around, or more appropriately put... meth mouth! If you’ve smelled this before, then you know. It’s that kind of dragon breath that you can smell on someone from 3 feet away and oh does it linger like a dense fog. So what we have is an oud oil that is so strong even 1 spray of this will be repelling people for the entire day coupled with a very wet tobacco and leather, that’s it. Oud, tobacco and leather. To give you a general round about of what Al Bashiq smells like for comparison purposes it would be Tom Ford’s Tobacco Oud, but with a genuine oud oil splattered on top. That’s Al Bashiq. In fact, I’m leaning strongly towards that this is Nabeel’s attempt to copy the Tom Ford. The similarities are far too uncanny. For me though? Al Bashiq is on the furthest end of the spectrum of, do not like.

Al Bashiq by Nabeel opens with an amber-spicy burst that feels louder than necessary. The first impression is sharp, slightly synthetic, almost metallic in its projection. It delivers impact, but not refinement. The opening feels engineered to impress quickly rather than to build a distinctive olfactory identity. But patience changes the narrative. As the fragrance settles, the dry down becomes far more compelling. Oud and leather rise with depth and control. The oud is resinous, smooth, and polished rather than animalic; the leather is dark, elegant, and structured. In this phase, Al Bashiq finally becomes recognizable and cohesive. It moves closer in spirit to Onekh by Bvlgari — that refined smoky-woody atmosphere where authority is expressed with calm luxury instead of volume. The paradox of Al Bashiq is clear: the opening speaks loudly, almost too loudly. The dry down speaks better. And it is precisely in that oud-leather base where the fragrance reveals its true value and character. AI Perfvmes Author of The Applied Perfumery Handbook: Theory and Practice of Artisanal Fragrances, Perfumes: The Architecture of Scent, The Heart of Perfume, The Olfactory Atelier, and the monographic studies The Oud Perfume, The Vanilla Perfume, and The Rose Perfume, he approaches perfumery as structure, language and positioning.

This is like an even more niche smelling and even less mass pleasing smelling interlude to me. The performance is absolutely insane. I've tried tons of the overhyped performance monsters and they were never really all that. I didn't even find sauvage elixir to be all that powerful. Some montales and amouages performed great on me but still nothing had yet been truly beast mode on me till this. It took multiple showers and about 6 days for me to finally not smell like it after just 2 sprays. I then sprayed my upstairs room pillow twice with it today and now I can smell it from downstairs. This is the first perfume I've ever tried that's legitimately beast mode after trying probably like 500+ fragrances. Proceed with caution with it. Edit: Recently tried meydan, it's almost exactly like this. I think Nabeel just took some rejected formula or batch of meydan and put into this for 10 percent of the price.

Wow... This here is a hidden gem it's a leather bomb it opens with a burst of leather and it's crazy how you can smell almost every note listed. it smells a bit medicinal and herbaceous Which must be coming from the top notes especially because of the Artemisia as the middle notes come in you get earthy and balsamic notes with that smoked olibanum and ambery myrrh with just a touch of powdery not fresh florals as it settles in about a few hours in the base you get that woody, balsamic, sweet,powdery with that myrrh still peeking through the myrrh gives it the essence of boiled Carrots and earthy roots with an ambery and woody touch overall this is a masterpiece all notes listed can be detected it's so perfectly blended and it just smells so god damn unique Could be of better quality imo but nonetheless it's worth 40 bucks it's simply amazing.

Got this for $50 which was the cheapest one I could find. Absolutely worth it. Wow. Really leathery right out the gate, actually reminds me a bit of lattafa Al Areeq Silver, but when you get your nose into it you can tell there's a lot more going on. Ive been wearing this for a few hours and so far it's a beast. It's projecting better than 90% of my collection. If you like deep complex leathery scents absolutely buy this. It's pretty great. Oh, something interesting from the box: almost all my scents say alcohol 80% vol, with a few saying 79% or 81% or 85% but 80 is definitely the most common. This one says 64% . Not sure exactly what that means (I've read conflicting explanations) but it's different!

Al Bashiq by Nabeel is not what I expected at all. Based on a handful of reviews, I expected a dark, resinous, somewhat challenging fragrance. This is why I’m often reluctant to trust reviews of certain people. In fact, it’s very easy to wear, overly sweet, somewhat gourmand, and feminine. I should mention that my batch is from February 2025. Actually, the scent is quite similar to oud Dream by Montale. The similarity is approximately 90%, and I’m not joking.

Exact copy of Arab Diriyah by Reef (only sold in the emirates and more expensive). No idea who made it first. I thought it was pure saffron + a bit of some flower. Glad to learn it’s much more complex. Pure oriental class and royal sillage. Love it

This actually smells like a more herbal version of gucci Guilty absolute in the opening and in the dry down you get more sweetness and the smoked plums accord you find in amouage memoir man.

its so god damn sexy very very similar to obviously nabeels second company SPIRIT OF DUBAI MEYDAN just a bit less strong as maydan but damn so sexy and for the price its a win win

Holy shinola.... This might win the award for "most fragrance notes in one composition" 😂🤣😂🤣😂