Khaltat Al Khasa

One of the best saffron perfumes I have tried yet. Saffron here is the main beautiful yummy player with a playful girly Rose, on a background of soft oud and amber. The spices here are skipping on the top. Despite being a sweet perfume; but I think it could be used in summer. It's a signature scent. Also, I think it could be layered with darker and heavier perfumes to be more attractive and mysterious. The only point here is that the perfume is starting with alcoholic whiff that disappears within seconds. I think it's not a matter with such amount of beauty. The siliage and longevity are very good. أحد أفضل عطور الزعفران التي جربتها حتى الآن. الزعفران هنا هو اللاعب اللذيذ والرئيسي مع ورد الروز اليانع والمرح، على خلفية من العود الناعم والعنبر. البهارات هنا تقفز على القمة بمهارة. على الرغم من كونه عطرا حلوا ؛ لكني أعتقد أن يمكن استخدامه في الصيف. إنه عطر لكل المواسم. كما أعتقد أن من الممكن تطبيقه مع عطور أغمق وأثقل ليكون أكثر جاذبية وغموضًا. النقطة الوحيدة الجديرة بالذكر هنا هي أن العطر يبدأ برائحة كحول حادة تختفي في غضون ثوان. أعتقد أنها لا تعني شيئا امام هذا القدر من الجمال. الفوحان والثبات جيد جدا.

Just received it today, in a beautiful box from Rasasi (carried by IntenseOUD USA). It is fresher than I had expected, and is complex and elegant. So far I've enjoyed it. Will write more as I experience it in the next few days :) Update: have had this beauty for a few days. Really enjoying it. As Noha said above, it has a BEATIFUL AND FRESH rose/oud dry down. The top note of saffron keeps it unique and mysterious. I compare it to Atelier's Rose Anonyme and this one is WAY better and fresher despite a much lower price. Well done Rasasi! And yes I do get a bit of the clean sexy vibe similar to Channel #5 as well. I use it as a casual everyday perfume, for work out, errands, and for a simple cardigan at work. Love it :)

I've got a bottle of this recently and love how the Rose and Sandalwood smells together. Definitely smells very unique and is a fragrance that i'm yet to find another brand that smells very similar to this perfume. I'm hallway through with the bottle and am definitely going to buy another bottle of this to keep in my collection. It smells very Arabian and can be worn both during summers and winters.

Gorgeous, modern and spiritual ...these 3 terms come to my mind when i think of this fragrance....beautiful modernized, everyday wearable oud that also has spicy saffron and amber with it, i highly recommend this to everyone ...get a sample and enjoy the beauty...very spiritual stuff which you can get at great prices instead of spending few hundred on niche houses 10/10 for the smell and value

Wonderful, supremely underrated, affordable, and high-quality. It’s a very Taif-like watery rose with creamy saffron and very clean woods. If you like Serge Lutens Santal Majuscule, this is the middle eastern version of it. Amazing how it smells so middle eastern without being one bit challenging. It’s also like Guerlain Santal Royal but with less oud and a more watery rose.

This is a unisex fragrance. Oriental easy to wear and inoffensive. I finished my first bottle and on second one now. Gives you middle eastern vibes. It’s not loud or have heavy sillage like other middle eastern fragrances but this one is good for its scent and price.

I fell in love with this fragrance instantly and I never looked back. Sensual, strong and exotic but not overpowering. It's very long-lasting and adapts smoothly to a very difficult skin like mine, without changing its nature.

I agree with stefano.lacchin. This is a high quality, well built masterpiece from Rasasi. Absolutly unisex in my opinion. Highly recommended for rose, saffron and oudh lovers.

A fresh, zingy oud & rose blend with a beautiful saffron presence. The discourse between the softly spiced, floral saffron and the juicy rose is the true heart of this fragrance. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the fruity aspect of the rose. It's fresh, diaphanous, and tart, I'm not sure what fruit note gives the rose this quality, but it smells lovely. The base has "white" amber, sandalwood, and clean musks. The oud note becomes more noticeable with time, but it's on the subtle side. I'm grateful it's not as harsh or strong as most synthetic oud bases. It's metallic and medicinal, but to my nose it's tolerable because it's mild and smoothly blended. The incredibly rendered saffron and rose make up for the oud. I'm pleasantly surprised, it's stunning for the price. I normally struggle with middle eastern blends, but this one is easy and hits well above its modest price. If you are sensitized to synthetic oud notes as I am, this one is a great entry level option. Not the most unique oud fragrance ever made, but it's very enjoyable. FYI: the flacon is incredible, one of my favorites. I love keeping it on my perfume tray. Long lasting and quite unisex, as many have noted. For those wondering if it has been pulled: Rasasi still has this listed on their website.

The start of this composition is akin to Al Haramain Excellent. Slightly sweet rose like. However, it quickly goes in a different direction. This is more of a spicy saffron rose scent with a mild oud in the background. It starts perfume like, but it turns very unisex within 10 mins. It turns spicy with the sandalwood balancing the oud from becoming skanky. For the record, this is not a skanky oud, so no worries. It projects good the first 2 hrs. then it turns to a very noticeable skin scent. It's been 5 hrs. since I applied it, and I still smell it well. Performance is average to above average. This can be worn anytime except high heat. I would wear it during warm evenings/nights. Nice anytime scent. Excellent for date unisex scent. 4/5 stars Review coming soon YT shavenonthedarkside UPDATE: I do not know what was wrong with my nose before, but this thing lasted for over 12 hours when I wore this again. This fragrance has beast mode longevity. Also, this fragrance has a "jammy" rose not too, so please be aware of that. Everything else I said remains true.

Too feminine and not enough oud for me. Gave it to my girlfriend and she likes it. In fact, it's become her favorite scent. The notes in this fragrance combine to make a jumbled mess, to my nose. I can't detect separate notes in this scent, unlike other scents I prefer. I think it is because of the spices that overwhelm the rose and oud notes. I thought that perhaps the drydown would reveal different aspects, but it behaves quite linearly on my skin. The development I had hoped for never eventuated (I was hoping for more oud and fewer spices). Nice bottle and packaging, and affordable price. UPDATE: I've noticed that I enjoy smelling it on her a lot more than I liked smelling it on myself. There have been a couple of occasions when I've noticed that something smelled really nice, then found out she was wearing this perfume. So yeah, I guess it's recommended by me.

Received yesterday and only worn last night and so far today. In addition to other reviews I can say that it's very similar to Al Haramain Nasmah. Not the same but close. The Rasasi without doubt has more warmth, depth and sweetness. It also dries down with a tadge more musk. Generally an interesting and intriguing fragrance that I don't yet quite know what to do with. EDIT: I wrote the above exactly six years ago. I did find out what to do with it. The answer was to wear it on the cooler days and especially if spending time outdoors. I grew to really appreciate and love this one. My bottle is almost at the bottom now and I'm going to replace it. It also turned out to be a fragrance that got a lot of people to ask me what I was wearing over the years and that they thought that it was extremely nice on the air.

Spicy rose with an amber base, a bit citric on top. Very dry. Some nuances of synthetic oud in the background, medicinal type. It's hard to explain but even though it has a light character overall, it has a good amount of depth too because of musk (black musk maybe?). Performance is great. I really like this one, because is what I was looking for, especially for summers. I'd say it's not impressive at all, however I haven't smelled anything like it and that gives it to positive points. Good looking bottle, but very light and cheap, however at this price point, it's a good deal. PS: I read somewhere Khaltat al Khasa has been discontinued. I hope it's not.

MANY COMPLIMENTS _______________________________________________________ I wore this today to work and receives a lot of compliments. I have to admit, that I usually receive compliments for the fragrances I wear, but today there were especially many compliments and so I decided to write a review. Khaltat-al-Khasa starts (at least, on me) with an explosive oud, which lasts around one or two hours. Afterwards it cools down and is replaced by surprisingly good combination of saffron-rose- bergamot. the saffron-rose twist lasts the entire day. Longetivity: - 10/10 Sillage: - 8/10 All in all: 7 out of 10 points

A lighter, more wearable version of Mancera Aoud Line. Being a middle eastern person, this is a scent I smelled a lot before. I agree with the spiritual/meditative descriptions used in previous reviews for one simple reason: This scent is used a lot in mosques by the religious men/sheikhs. It has a mass appeal and surely a nice scent. Nothing that makes me go gogo gaga over it but it is very nice rose/oud scent. Performance sucks to be honest but for the price.. mmm. I got the 50 ml for 16 euros (A steallllllll) and the presentation is very high end. Its ok.. gives me an Arabian feel here in Europe.

This is a fantastic cheapie. £22 for 50ml and its stunning. This smells almost exactly like some bakhoor I bought a few years ago in the hotel lobby of Atlantis in Dubai. Its my favourite holiday destination and I usually always stay at the Atlantis. So this reminds me of walking through the lobby and smelling the beautiful bakhoor. Really glad i blind bought this one, rasasi is just such a fantastic all round house for fragrances. Performance was 7 hours so good enough for me and sillage moderate. Very happy with this one 👍🏻

This is a lighter version of 'Aoud Lime' by Montale and 'Soir D'Orient' by Sisley. For a bargain price, it's light and fresh, beautiful citrus, oriental, a hint of damp rose, saffron and musk. I appreciate that it's dense, but not too sharp or metallic. I gifted away my Montale's Aoud Lime bottle (my lucky dad!) and kept this instead. Very wearable, great day scent, especially for summer. Unisex.

This fragrance smells almost exactly like rose water for the first few minutes. I smelt this side by side with a bottle of rose water from Lebanon, and it was identical. Then after a while the saffron notes come out and it changes. I would say this leans feminine and is more appropriate for women. Definitely good performance and safe as a blind buy for women, but for guys- try it out first!

Great creamy middle eastern perfume, well blended and very exotic. But i don't get the beast longevity many reviewers talk about. It last 2 hours on the skin and after that it is almost imperceptible. The sillage is nonexistent, not even after spraying.

Basically the fragrance that Tom Ford duped and called it Cafe Rose and charged a fortune

genuinely surprised by the gender sliders leaning male... as a westerner, this reads as an unambiguously feminine fragrance to me. the opening is horrendous, a - very offensive - wet wipe citrus blast, which extends deep into the duration of the scent, the rest is creamy and soft, prominent rose which is heavily challenged by that bergamot. i can't find the oud, or at least nothing that pushes it out of the purely floral territory. it's not bad, but it is quite girly. on my skin it turns medicinal, sweet, cold, airy and citrusy - this last one being in a bad way - not what i expected. longevity and sillage are both weak, it disappears quickly. decent(?) for the price, but i wouldn't buy another bottle. 5.5/10 *update after a few weeks hidden in the darkest corner of the closet, the screechy bergamot in the opening has disappeared almost completely, and I can now appreciate the nature of the roses and spices used in this, although it is still quite feminine leaning, now it offers a cozy and soft bed of spices in which a sweet middle eastern rose rests. this is enough to significantly bump its score. 7.2/10

A very clean and fresh scent resting on an inoffensive oud base. The rose is really subtle but noticeable. Not jammy. Honestly not getting much spice here. The composition has a lot of depth from the saffron and oud but i don't get any peppery/clove-y/cinnamon-y notes from the spices. To my nose this gives a primarily fresh vibe, not floral or woody or spicy. Doesn't seem as loud as other oud fragrances i own. I wouldn't call many oud fragrances tame enough for daily wear, but this one is strikingly mild and inoffensive. Unisex. The note breakdown for this fragrance is misleading so beware. If you want a louder rose/oud combo there are better choices.

I was lured by the rose, but now, on the hottest day of the year, realised it’s way too much for this heat. It’s intense, busy, traditionally Middle Eastern and heavy. I feel like I’m drinking a strong cocktail in the midday sun, when a simple water would have been a better option. If you love the expensive oud fragrances of Amouage and other high end brands, then save yourself a load of cash and go for this. A big impact, hard-hitter, rose/oud combo.

Notes taken from Notino: Top notes Spices, Bergamot Middle notes Rose, Saffron Base notes Sandalwood, Amber, Musk A lovely fragrance! When I first spray it on my skin I can detect the bergamot and oud. The bergamot is bright, fresh and brief. I smell the oud a little bit then as it intensifies, it is lovely, noticeable, resinous and woody. The oud will eventually mix with sweet rose accord in the heart backed by some saffron and warmed through by soft amber, there is soft dusting of spice surrounding all of the notes. I personally think the treatment of oud is elegant and easy to wear. The harshness of the oud is softened by the rose and sandalwood. This fragrance is alcohol based with great sillage and amazing longevity I can smell a little bit in the morning with my nose to wrist. I think it is completely unisex and perfect for those who love Arabian perfumes!

Most regal scent you can find at this price point. Versatile, wearable, majestic, light. Subtly blended rose, oud, sandalwood mix of spices and freshness, sharp and slightly syrupy, by no means screechy or harsh rose. Truly underrated perfume from Rasasi. It's getting hard to find, but if you're on a budget and really are getting into what the rose-oud magic is all about in fragrances, this is surely a great gateway. Longevity isn't all-out beastmode, and that's a blessing in disguise in a way (otherwise it'd completely be in Montale-esque territory), it delicately projects the true facets of the fragrance, has alot of character. 8/10

I received my bottle today and maaaaan, this is sh*tty for me. I ordered based on all the good reviews here and YouTube; that wasn’t enough! But I tell you what, you really need to be born into the oriental world or really like like the skanky kinda oudy smell otherwise you won’t appreciate it. And don’t be deceived, it don’t smell like Santal Royal.

Brilliant perfume, oud is prominent in this one, unlike western perfumes where the oud fades away and overpowered by rose. Suits both men and women. Every now and then you get this whiff of the perfume reminding you of what your wearing whereas with other Perfumes your nose gets accustomed to the scent. Definitely worth adding to your collection.

I like this fragrance, and growing week by week on my, in my person this juice is a rose and a oud bomb, and is a complements getter, by the ladies and men to, that's very cool when some one you don't know ask you what are you wearing? its smells very good!, I receive my share of complements when I wear it...

I sprayed it on my clothes 3-4 days before now, and I went to pick it up and guess what? The smell was still there! For longevity it's a beast 8/10 lovely combination of oud and warm spicy smell! Doesn't annoy people when I get into their cars

Top: Cinnamyl alcohol, citronellol Mid/base: Geraniol, White musk, Amber basically, amber, musk, spicy, rose, powder. Beautiful. Like a Clean Floral rose oud, Similar to a rose oud incense musk smell

This is a good perfume and i tell u that no difference between oudh abiyad and khaltat al khasa. Opening note are same between them and both of them are smells same after 5 minutes.

underrated fragrance ,, nice mix between oud and rose without being overpowering ,, inexpensive

Wow amazing .. Dry down smells like killian - rose Oud to me