Shadee

I love love love Shadee....and although I love almost ALL of SPA there are some on my skin that skew too masculine and too heavy. I know the middle east and I love that part of the world (so sad now that its war torn in many parts) but I remember the men love to smell sweet and strong! Anyway I digress....Shadee is stunningly beautiful and very feminine. It opens bright sweet/sharp with a wonderful dry dusty incense base just peeking through. It reminds me a a full bodied proper old fashioned floral from the 1960's - 70's when a womans perfume would shimmer like jewels and would then linger in the room long after she'd gone. Its not too strong and I'm tempted to get some for spring summer here in the UK. The trouble with Sultan's attar's is that they are all beautiful and its the deciding that's the hardest part.......GORGEOUS!!!

A beatyfull sunset. Honeyy, calm airy.

Shadee to me is one of the most relaxing, meditative, and pure fragrances among the Sultan Pasha offerings - and simultaneously one of the most pure representations of the divine character of the feminine. To me, the notion of this divine representation accords this fragrance honorable, and archaic motherly tonality - although not restricted to women to wear, for its character is such that a male could easily wear this, but just such that the grace and divinity of the mother as a symbolic figure are deeply instilled in this fragrance to my subjective history. This fragrance starts off with a bang of Gardenia, Jasmine and Tuberose dancing atop a swirling lush rose and a base of Tumeric, Musk, Sandalwood and Ambergris with occasional spicier elements coming from something that reminds me of an aromatic blend I have once smelled that centered around mustard oil with a slew of other spices underneath (not necessarily as the mustard you put on your sandwich, but mustard which is blended deeply into a smoky aroma - one which smells somewhat of an 'oriental' incense) as well as a milky/slightly earthy aroma which could very well be milk, or patchouli of some aged variety blended into perfection. Another aspect of this fragrance of awe-inspiring note is the lasting power of the floral notes on display here, as well as their fullness and delicacy, which are never compromised for the sake of this lasting power. This is even more amazing when you notice that, each floral note here dances in such perfect coordination with the other floral notes displaying each other at altering moments, and yet you never lose sight of the totality of their dance. For me, the gardenia and jasmine (paired with the tuberose) have 'solos' which prominently display the undying resilience of femininity in its eternal beauty - the jasmine and tuberose step forward to create this wonderfully rich - taking the depth and richness of the jasmine which acts ass the bass to the tenor quality which the tuberose here takes on, joining the two through a quality which sings of the infinite, in a cool, white, regal manner, through which one finds the sweetness of the jasmine offset by the gentle headiness of the tuberose, which create this wonderful commentary on the visual beauty of purity, one which covers its soft and elegant qualities, and yet which sing to the dedication and sacred qualities which allow for its individual cultivation. Shadee also does this wonderful trick, whereupon a lot of us who have smelled 'gardenia' in a great deal of works outside of high end natural perfumery have in fact really smelled a fusion of jasmine, tuberose and orange blossom in some indeterminate combination, and yet, in the middle of the unending beauty of Shadee, where the dancing florals have fully switched parts, and while you think that you may still be smelling jasmine and tuberose together, really they have retreated to the background, and the gardenia stands now at the fore even somehow more pure than the florals which welcomed it in - it's still soft, delicate, cool, and opulent, but now boasting an even deeper creaminess, boosted in part by the sandalwood and that milk/patchouli accord I spoke of earlier - which also seem to pair with the earthy and semi-mushoom-like-quality. Truly, I must say, having spent quite some time with Shadee, that it's splendor is unending, and in fact might very well be among the most pure, divine and archetypal (in the Jungian sense) that I have ever put my nose to - which is saying an awful lot in that, it never loses this sense of delicacy and simplicity while staying so richly complex and thought/awe inducing. 9/10 YT: Jess AndWesH

Not my favourite from the line... Quite earthy, and what I thought was herbal, though, there are no herb notes listed. White florals add prettiness and flair to the scent, but overall, it just doesn't work for me. Or, not enough...