Pure Incense

Today i left in the morning, without perfume, wearing a sweater I hadn't worn since last winter. After a while, I started noticing a very pleasant incense perfume emitting from my left sweater sleeve. I must have tested that perfume on only one wrist (usual behavior, one on each). It took some time until I could place it, it must be Pure Incense, that my classmate said smelled exactly like "German incense". Now at the end of the day, my left wrist is beautifully perfumed from what was transferred from my wrist to the sweater OVER A YEAR AGO. Yes, I knew that these attars are powerful but this is astounding even to me. Very nice and comforting incense perfume. Long lasting? You could say that.

The sample is almost identical to Norma Kamali Incense and is really potent as well. A big love but did not make the purchase because I still have half bottle of NK Incense which will most likely last for the rest of my life. For those who want to get a hand on NK but couldn't or who love incense should give this a try. Great layering base to any weak incense perfumes too.

Stunning opening, quickly becomes a little too much. Don't get me wrong I'm a BIG incense fan but context is everything and this fragrance smells of heavy olibanum (not much of the fresh, lemony uplift and fizz it can have.) Myrrh which smells divine but starts to cloy on me like caramel or toffee or something after a short time. Then drying down more to the fantastic labdanum, which is my favourite material but too much of a good thing is definitely the phenomena going on here. I love the smell of these resins, don't get it twisted I'd just rather see this incense accord in a perfume composition but I also know who difficult it is to balance. I'm conflicted about such a potent resinous attar and whether I'd wear it.

It is a slightly sweet, slightly smoky balsamic scent. That is how i would summarize it. Of course it does smell more complex than that and the thing i find with all of the sultan pasha compositions is that they are so well blended and smooth.

Frankincense and myrrh overload. Seriously if you dont love these scents dont even think about trying this one. I like frankincense and burn it regularly in my home but i still felt this attar was just a bit too much on me, quite overpowering and a bit intense for me personally. Performance was good got around 10 hours from this one But again no sillage after the first hour.