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.

Pure incense Pure incense opens to me with a thick, slightly peppery yet completely smokey cloud emanating from the scent of 'burning' tinging the edges of the smoke, and rising from a tar-like concoction of resins where between the two, a chorus of variations on the theme, and phantom notes come to display themselves before vanishing potentially for ever - there is also a warmth coming from the myrrh and cedar which seem to cast a spotlight which dances about and frames notes on occasion. In this limbo of phantasmic notes you can find wet, humid tobacco, dense, almost sludgy coffee, and occasionally there seem to be some vague 'heavier' floral notes (the closest I can come to defining this is what smells faintly like narcissus.) This all seems to sit within a globe that defines the limits of scent which seems to be made of beeswax dripping with honey whose character is dark as hell and one of the two areas from which an element of slight sweetness seem to penetrate this fragrance. The beeswax carries an animalistic quality which has a parallel feel that comes from a place with a sweet, woody, ambery feel as well as a dry musk that even turns quite leathery - this seems to be coming from something that to my nose comes across as labdanum. There is a crisp woody character (one that seems to emanate primarily from the copal note, which is at the front and center of this fragrance) which sits behind the other grouping of notes, and which lasts the duration of the fragrance itself - I call it crisp, but in reality it smells somewhere between the herbal character of basil and lavender, as well as a freshly sawed cedar, bone dry mint, or a very aged pine - it carries with it an earthy overtone, and occasionally what smells to be a mossy variation of the frankincense at play here - it continues to play into the strong dry, dense, (yet with a hint of ambered warmth that expresses itself through a slightly sweet, or drier musky/animalic/leathery accord which occassionally brings with it a tarry, rubbery and slightly acrid feeling with it) aromatic woodsy atmosphere that defines every edge of this fragrance to my nose. It's important to note that this fragrance is in no way similar to the liturgical atmosphere for whom many may note their sole experience of it coming at the hands of many mainstream (and even peripherally niche) fragrances, which report to have created a 'pure' representation of incense in its full expression - and yet, to many who have come to know the more luxurious side of burning incense, or who are more familiar with authentic Buddhist practice, this fragrance might prove more nostalgic. This fragrance can be said to remind one of the elixers from Slumberhouse, in all of their dark, sticky, and flame licked glory - but here instead of simply being a conceptual work of genius, it is easy to wear and truly meditative while also being a monolithic work of minimalist genius: perhaps much like encountering a Carl Andre sculpture for the first time - it takes one out of the sphere of incense, confuses, enraptures, beautifies, and then renders calm the viewer who, in a case of ecstatic peace returns to the simple object of incense as the object seen before, but now, having journeyed through the stages of consciousness relating to such a divine and monolithic symbol of God on Earth to understand the absolute power, tenderness, divinity, and beauty that comes with Sultan Pasha's PURE INCENSE! 9/10 LONG LIVE SULTAN PASHA! YT: Jess AndWeSH

Gorgeous gorgeous. Pure incense is a bit softer than I expected based on reviews but I’ve come to really appreciate how the softness is an important part of the magic of this composition. The blending is impeccable. Imagine a dusty quiet incense note combined with a dry molasses smell and a ton of cedar in the base. The sillage is quiet but this fragrance is more contemplative than a fragrance one would wear for an occasion or to be smelled by others. However, depending on how you apply and the weather conditions someone may notice this on you. This is very masterful work.

Well this was pretty much a non event. At the start I got a very balsamic resinous myrrh that was slightly sweet. A bit of cedar joined the fray and then five minutes later it was a skin scent. Slight whiffs I've myrrh when I put my nose closer to my wrist but that was it. Wham bam thank you Mam. Must be skin chemistry with this one.