Nawaf

This fragrance is a masculine oriental ode to oud, seasoned by hot spices, oriental balms, animalic leather and sweet tobacco. Its seductive scream begins in the bottle itself, strangely designed but visually imposing and pleasant. Its backbone from the first spray until the end of the drydown is based on a strong, but a well-educated arabic oud note and without any references to barnyard or carcass tonics. Around this strongly seductive burnt wood note, there are slight nuances of saffron and cumin seeds, as well as strong balsamic vectors of amber and incense, chords of strong piercing animalic leather and the warm sweetness of a langorous hot tobacco. This is typically the fragrance used by an adventurous Prince Aladdin or in Princess Sheherazade's seduction 1001 nights. Its performance is well above average and the perfume accompanies us for an entire day and a a long night focusing the surrounding attention on us. Its blending is exemplary and as a whole this perfume becomes unique and very desirable. Due to its uniqueness, It's not easy to establish a reference for a similar fragrance. But I assume the risk of referring Kalemat Black by Arabian Oud. A collection of oriental perfumes becomes poor without this precious Nawaf jewel.

This is strong stuff, the opening to me felt like that medicinal syrup we used to put in inhaling steamers back in 20s. The opening is sweet and medicinal but the dry down is something. The drydown is just smoke, too much dark and Smoky and it's lovely. The dry down reminded me of Tom ford tobacco oud TBH. Its class, expensive and unique. Uniqueness : 9/10 Smell: 10/10 Longevity : 10/10 Sillage: 8/10 Overall Performance : 10/10 Price Value : 5/10 ( expensive for a 50 ml) Weather: Winter, Fall Blind Buy : Yes, provided you know the notes you buying.

A very good fragrance from the Swiss Arabian house, smells similar to Tobacco Oud in the FAR dry-down (5 hours+). It’s rather strong Saffron vibes in the opening and dries down to incense and leather, with a tobacco and Oud note throughout. Longevity is easily 12 hours on my skin, becoming a skin scent at around 3-4 hours. Sillage is good and projection is very good. Not safe-blind buy, but it is definitely good value for money. Recommend: Sample first Rating: 4.25/5

This is a really good one,,,,,Only if SAFFRON was not overpowering the whole experience. It def needs a good half an hour on skin but then you wash it off by that time LOL. Unless you put one or two sprays on your clothes and walk away then come back to smell it or wear it to go out.

I get the honey and woody scent, it is really quite good. Reminds me of Amouage interlude or epic, but more generic. Not as long lasting (though it dose last quite well) or as strong, but not the same price either. In fact I think a bit of a bargain.