Sultan de Muscat

Fresh citruses opens up and lands in a well carved out wood and leathery scent on my skin. It’s does invoke a sort of leather jackety-smell or the smell of walking into a leather workshop with old used workbenches. Quite a neat fragrance actually, especially for evenings in colder weather paired up with a jeans shirt and a leather jacket. For me it sits somewhere in between good and great. Although I’m not sure I will buy another bottle because it doesn’t really jive a hundred percent with my skin. For someone looking for a clean leather smell for a fair price this is a great alternative

Just after I bought this I was walking through a village in Spain and passed the open door to a centuries old monastery chapel. Intoxicating waves of incense, wood and leather hit my nose and I immediately thought 'Sultan de Muscat'. Since then it has been my go-to frag and I regularly get flashbacks to that moment in Spain when I'm wearing it.

I love it! Dirty spicy patchouli blended with woods and some citrus. A classy gentleman from 80's or the 90's with leather briefcase would wear this. Quite linear, but I want it to be like that. Better performance than I thought, but over the middle range. My wife hates it, but I don't mind.

Christmas Eve tomorrow night, and of all my 70+ fragrances this is the one to wear on this special occasion. The beautiful patchouli note is the backbone of this great perfume, and the note lasts and lasts. Highly recommendable! Sultan de X-Mas!

I was intrigued about the fragrance line of Rituals, first because of their Oriental ascetics, but they also offer travel 10ml. bottles which I think is great! I believe at this point of my fragrance journey I know what makes a good oriental fragrance. It needs to have spice, floral, and woodsy notes. Balance is also key of either of the fragrances. I love oriental fragrances because it is my heritage as well coming from the Philippines and lucky enough to have travelled a great part of the Orient --- I love India and Cambodia! I know I am not a fragrance snob, in fact one of the best best perfumes I keep are locally made with no label at all. I tried to test some of their fragrances and I was drawn most drawn to this. Palace d'Ambre is very oudy/ambre but was not something I was looking for at that point. This fragrance opens with a superb blast of green citrus, when it mellows down a hint of black pepper corn cord comes out. I can even smell a soft cardamom. It sits with this cord for a good hour and then it lingers into a sandalwood with leathery patchouli scent. A good 4-6 hours with moderate sillage, not bad for a eau de parfum bought for £8.50 - 10ml. Im honestly impressed! Im trying to think what this fragrance reminds me, it reminds me of the desserts of Rajasthan. Dry, warm, and very spicy. This can be unisex but leaning towards a masculine scent. This is a familiar scent though (Marc JAcobs- Bang) but of better quality.