Mukhallat Oudh Al Mubakhar

I rather lately discovered the beauty of the rose-oud-combo and i am completely in love with it. This fragrance is one of the many hundreds rose-oud-combos obviously but it is to me one of the best, not as complex as many niche perfumes with the same concept like Cairo/ Penhaligons for example which is about 20 times or more expensive. It has a certain freshness, its not heavy and mysterious and therefore also suitable for daytime, office, leisure. I recommend it as a blindbuy.

I will add that as stated below I find it to be a brighter black aoud. It has a yellow flowers and sunshine accord. While holding onto the bloody red metallic rose and saffron. Slightly more fem than black aoud. I quite enjoy this on myself in the winter. I love wearing rose frags in the freezing cold.

I came across Mukhallat Oud Al Mubakhar while looking for Oud al Mubakhar. I love the rose’s gentle scent and the way Middle Eastern brands pair it with darker and nastier notes like musk, saffron, and oud wood. Taken by the desire to smell this perfume, I couldn’t resist the temptation and put them both in my cart. And now I’m ready to tell you about them. First, let me tell you one more thing. Rust is another name for iron oxide. It occurs when the iron is oxidized by exposure to oxygen in the presence of moisture. While not noticeable in dry air, we can detect rust odour in humid conditions when oxidation is more likely to occur. Human blood, which contains water and iron, has a rust-like odour. Mukhallat comes with an intense explosion of sour, musky, smoky, slightly metallic and bloody aromas. Quickly comes the intoxicating saffron, with plenty of tartness from the lime. The Caribbean citrus is green, unripe, and tart and slightly overpowers the bergamot. The mixture of citrus fruits and saffron, perhaps with the support of the Turkish rose, gives rise to a sticky and metallic smell that reminds me of the taste of blood and rust. Although many people associate this acidic opening with the smell of sweat, I find it more similar to rust, but also to the smell that remains on my hand when I grab something metal, for example, when I hold on to the metal handle of the bus or subway, or I play with coins in my pockets. Getting in the middle phase, the harsh aspect dissipates and leaves room for a cold muskiness mixed with a soapy and unsweetened rose, which grows over a carpet of violet leaves. The rose appears green and dewy, with that metallic slant I mentioned in the opening. It is dominant, the key player, but does not turn out as opulent as in other Middle East fragrances. Instead, this dry and rusty rose is remarkable to me. From the clothes, I also get smoky nuances coming to my face. The bloody and metallic edges are still detectable in the dry-down, but now with earthy shades of patchouli and sensual musk. I am not getting too much sweetness or powderiness, although the scent features tonka. Even the oud is light and clean, not too resinous or animalic, yet a little smoky. Mukhallat Oud Al Mubakhar is quirky in a good and unique way. I’m not looking at extraordinary performance. On my skin, the projection is moderate, and longevity is average, maybe a little below. Maybe it lasts longer on clothes, but on me, it becomes a skin perfume after a few hours. Overall, it’s a safe perfume, so leisure and the office are suitable occasions to wear it, but you can also try it in the evening. Not strong enough to face the winter months, I see it as ideal for the cool spring and autumn seasons. Finally, unless you’re a risk taker, don’t jump into a blind buy like I did because here, the rose plays a nonconformist role by breaking the usual schema. A bloody rose, indeed. I base my opinion and review on a bottle I have owned since November 2022.

A pleasant perfume. To me it's a Montale Black Aoud Summer. More fresh, with a brighter rose. Same olfactory profile. Not as strong, but not weak. A unisex for hot weather. Good purchase for 10-12 E/100ml. A pleasant oriental alternative to European blue-green-fresh fragrances

I agree with everything prince64 says EXCEPT for the blind buy warning. Blind buy it! It's so cheap and chances are you'll be pleasantly surprised. It's not like much else out there and if you've been stuck in a fragrance rut, this is sure to bust you out of it.

Ancient_Trails's review captured the mood well, but in an overly dramatic way. In my experience, it isn't that unpleasant. Mukhallat delivers a realistic rusty blood impression of saffron right away — far from 'slightly metallic', it's exactly blood-like. Is that bad? I don't know. It opens on a vividly bloody rose accord, which quickly gives way to bright citrus notes. As the rose cools off, geranium in particular comes into focus, with its green and spicy facets. In the drydown, a musky sandalwood base rounds out the composition, smoothing the acidic florals. The blood is still there until it completely fades. The overall effect reminds me of a feminine twist on Al Haramain Excellent. The structure and feel are different, but many of the same ingredients seem to be at play. Al Haramain Oudi CPO is also really close, but without this bloody weirdness. Performance for such a transparent and airy fragrance is amazing; can't argue with that. The bottle's appearance itself offers not much — it looks like any other mass-market average fragrance. Despite its unusual bloody nature, it remains surprisingly straightforward. It unfolds in a simple way — truly a unique experience, but it looks like it wasn't made for me. Personally, I struggled to embrace it; I also found it too overtly feminine with its soapy character and eventually set mine aside. For some, this could be an absolute steal. It's super cheap for what it offers. This is pure hemoglobin, darling. A major 'finger prick for my glucose meter' energy. Opening note: 5- Sillage/Projection: 7+ Drydown: 4 Longevity: 8- Blend/Composition: 5 Versatility: 4 Uniqueness: 9 Value for money: 7 Bottle design/Aesthetics: 3- Overall experience: 5- Blind-buy rating: 3-

No, it is not similar to Montale's Black Aoud. Not even to a Black Aoud from a parallel universe. It smells like a lady in her seventies, who eats rose petal home-made jam and drinks lemonade, surrounded by old furniture and timeworn upholstered chairs, in an ancient, falling apart house that needs urgent decluttering. Her lipstick smells like blood, iron, and musk. She had over-sprayed Bulgarian rose water on her neck, hair, and overworked clothes, that have a pronounced smell of mothballs and celery. She had previously cooked the dinner for nobody and worked hard in the kitchen; her armpits are sweaty and her hands greasy. Her sweat is acrid, sour, acidic, and old, in the vein of the huge collection of stuffed animals that adorn the stained walls. The spoon in her hand is rusty and that smell of rust brings back memories of her long-gone husband and his macho aftershave, which used to have exactly the same notes as Al Haramain' Excellent for Men. The sourness in her life, the sweetness of the jam, the Bulgarian roses, her memories, the rust, her husband's Excellent for Men flood the entire existence. She falls asleep. Time goes by. Unnoticed.

An absolute steal. Way more complex than the first and smells more expensive. This is Rasasi Oud al Mubakhar if you mixed it in about equal parts with Lancome Magie Noire and Maison Al Faranasi's Mukhallat Al Tabari and I could not be more delighted. The scent arrives in the order I listed it in and you get the fabulous powdery Patchouli dry down from Mukhallat Al Tabari probably my favourite dry down since the original Opium's gorgeous muskiness. *pours of out a forty for that fallen formula*