Diwan

A Realistic Bakhoor ! Diwan from the Arab House of Perfumery Niche Haute Luxury Nabeel from the Second Generation of The Spirit Of Dubai Exclusive Line is a Oriental Woody Amber Smoky Incensed Fruity Spicy Floral Unisex perfume; It was released in 2017. An ultra-niche collection; by becoming an embodiment of the city, The Spirit Of Dubai collection was inspired and paid tribute to it, it is a celebration of the city. With even more selected ingredients, the second generation expands the narrative of the first generation, covering more themes in the quest to pay homage to the city of Dubai with even more luxury, refinement and sophistication. All in all, Diwan, by The Spirit of Dubai, is a fragrance that awakens the senses and releases deep emotions. Its complexity and sophistication make it a true olfactory treasure, perfect for those looking for a unique and memorable experience in the world of perfumery. I was really impacted by such complexity mixed harmonically in perfect balance, there is nothing chaotic here! Diwan already impresses with a complex opening of a magnificent steaming incense crackling in the center of this arabesque environment, 'oud woody soft and sweet smoking red fruits, ornamented with satin roses, and seasoned by fresh and spicy spices, light bright aldehydes, with a very discreet animalic touch complete this scenario of the thousand and one nights. It also has some refreshing citrus and fresh green leaves blowing a brief freshness into its crevices. Making a perfect connection with a sumptuous heart of Taif rose with its citrus freshness, which is still accompanied by a whiff of a delicious and surprisingly aromatic coffee at the center of this composition, undeniably referring to its corresponding "predecessor", Majalis. An amber, which adds a warm depth, and always having a smoky background that gives mystery and sophistication. The fruity notes provide a juicy sweet fresh touch. The quality of the raw materials are excellent. What a delicious perfume! This warm amber, with delicate powdery and earthy notes with a sophisticated iris, the bittersweet fruity rhubarb, a bouquet of floral notes transport to large hanging gardens against the blue sky and warmed by the hot breath of the Dubai desert, that breath of Arabic coffee meets the rich honey with incense that refers to a delicacy very common to the inhabitants of the Khalij (Gulf) forming a gourmet accord. The experience culminates in a deep base of an opulent and resinous Indian leathery oud slightly animalic, reinforced with another dose of a sacred frankincense with mystical myrrh, animalistic castoreum, and the smoky sweetness of a resinous benzoin exponentially increases the smoky incensed character of the fragrance. Noble woods with emphasis on creamy sandalwood, guaiac wood and cedar bring a balsamic woody resinous base. It also has soft musk, vanilla beans and tonka adding a discreet sweetness to this drying. Diwan fulfills very well the mission of representing an incandescent bakhoor with a mukhallat/blend of the best incense sticks in the world. Wonderful perfume! It performs great!

Diwan's list of notes, all 44 of them, lets you know up front that this fragrance is designed to somehow make them fit together in a way that does not end up smelling like some hooch that teens mixed together from all the various alcohols in their parent's liquor cabinet. But I felt I had to give a test and see what the exorbitantly priced fragrance would smell like on my skin. I must admit that I am impressed the House of Dubai managed to pull this off. Now when I state this I do not mean it is worth a full bottle, but I do enjoy its multi-layered unfolding. For those looking for a scent that lasts for 12 hours, you won't find it here. It is strong on me for about 4 to 5 hours and that is usually as long as I need a scent to last. The multiple Ouds are smooth and dominant. The incense, rose, and coffee all are a part of the blend that I find the most powerful after the Ouds. I have not worn it enough yet to see if I will gradually be able to pick out even half of the listed notes, but I can identify over 12 on my first wearing. This is not a fragrance to make a room turn in your direction when you walk in. Silage is moderate to strong. Some have compared it to Majalis but I haven't tried that one. I have tried a number of this House's scents and have quite enjoyed all of them. A couple of them are in my top 20 of all time. I am not sure I would rate it in my top three from this House, but it could happen over subsequent wearings. I think most will enjoy the aura and opulence if you are into Middle Eastern Ouds. It leans masculine and could be worn in any season but more as a night than day scent.

This one give you the feel of arabic souks the ones fumigated with the most powerful scented bukhoor/incense. As I sprayed it, I was hit by a powerful wave of oud and incense - rich balsamic sweet and smoky tone. And I discovered a sweet exotic non musty taif rose in the heart. Quite a nice surprise. There is a tobaccish ambergris like effect as well. Soon it becomes a bit floral amd musky with a sweet and sour tangy fruity note from Majalis. A complex scent reminding of many mukhallats (oud-floral-incensy blends). The quality is definitely there. The price should be exactly half of what is proposed. Not my favorites from the line. Its just a refined version of Majalis. At this price I definitely expect a miraculous effort. However for those who crace dark rich oriental chrpyre sort of scents which do are not made these days this is a must try. And I also found out that the fragrance is actually themed on incense/bukhoor and it smells quite like it.

This is an instant blast of a perfume notes right on your face! This is bold, strong, dark, deep, sweet, animalic, oudy, fruity, rosy, and everything nice! Thr moment you spray, you will detect a beautiful oud note which is mixed with beautiful fruity notes that are not too sweet, you will smell almost 12 different things from the starting! This is immensely strong and potent and might also make you go anosmic, but the smell is soooooo seductive you won’t stop smelling yourself. This is a brilliant perfume but the insane price will never justify anything that is perfume. If you can find it on discounters you should go for it, if you can find decants or partial bottles for good price, just go for it! This is extremely expensive smelling, very very Middle Eastern, but very addictive. Smell 10/10 Longevity 100/10 Sillage 100/10 Price -100 way way too expensive

I've been looking for a realistic middle eastern incense heavy fragrance. This over delivers all expectations. Calming, meditative burning incense. The Taif Rose is done to perfection in the dry down. The fruits lighten up the Oud and smokey incense to give it contrast. Blended so well, the Oud isn't funky as the note pyramid suggest. As the commenter below said, it does give the smell of oud chips being burned which I find to be exactly what it smells like in real life. This is the best middle eastern fragrance I've put my nose to thus far. Pure incense bahkoor in the most realistic form. Price is outrageous but worth a sample and full bottle if you can find a good deal on it.

Spirit of Dubai is now my favorite house. This is regal and powerful. Yes, it’s expensive BUT cost is subjective. The presentation drew me in and the scent won me over. This is right up my alley, oriental in all the best ways. I own 3 from second generation and I will own all of them before long..

Complex and beautiful scent. Fruity floral smoky oreintal resinous rose oud fragrance. Great performance also.

Diwan is a fruity rose-oud which will blow your socks off straight away, this stuff seriously fills rooms. It’s sweet and seductive, airy and floral and yet at the same time dense, smoky and dark. The scent is primarily focused around the dark, smoky growl of thick oud, leather and incense which provides this bitter backbone to the fragrance. To contrast this you’ve got an array of sticky-sweet fruity notes including raspberry and strawberry backed up by jammy rose and saffron. There’s hints of other stuff going on but that’s the general gist of it. This is a gorgeous fruit oud scent but I wouldn’t even consider paying the retail price for it. It’s very enjoyable to wear but it doesn’t stick in my mind for days on end like some of the other SOD’s do unfortunately.

Caramel, animal, a little spice, now a little rose. This is nice and smooth. I am made aware of its quality. This is a nice fragrance. Unfortunately I am bored to tears by it. This is not anything I have not smelled before. It smells good but it puts me to sleep. Combined with the price and not only GTFOOH but if someone were to gift this to me I would scold them for spending so much on such an uninteresting product. Yes, you can come at me with the you can’t afford this canard as I have read hear many times. But that just is not the case. Most of us want to smell good while using a quality product that was purchased at a reasonable price point. IDK what anyone says, over three hundred bucks, at the discounters, and you are signaling your economic status not purchasing an extra special fragrance. There are just too many rose fragrances on the market that are interesting and out perform this in every metric. If you want rose start with anything with rose in it from Xerjoff, I recommend more than words but there are many. Even MFK has better options at better price points than this and I excoriate MFK every chance I get because I think the house is criminally overhyped, and overpriced. A couple of hours in and this is a nice soft rose with a whisper of spice in the background. Absolutely lovely. If it were the only rose game in town have at it. But it is not. I still maintain that at this price point we are dealing with a case of the emperor’s new clothes. Three hours in the fruit is more evident bringing this much closer to more than words. They are very similar. This is much softer but they smell a lot alike. Here is the math. Diwan is $1095 at maxaroma per 90 ML. More than Words is $164 for 100 ML at the same site. $12.16 per ML VS $1.64 and the $1.64 has much better longevity, projection and sillage. The question is do you want to smell nice while signaling to the world you spent a lot of money on one fragrance or do you want to smell fantastic without bringing economics into it.

You better like rose, it's all over this one

MY God this thing is so over priced and so expensive for what it is.. Honestly the whole spirit of Dubai house is so so over priced.. Diwan smell good in the beginning for 15, 20 minutes..nice fruity, spicy and little smoky but after that it smell like a very metallic sushi..so I don't know who would like to put sushi smelling perfume on the skin or clothes. Also it is not long lasting.. it can last for about 2, 3 hours the most..The projection is good for the first 15, 20 minutes.. and after that you just smell metallic sushi thats all.. So sample first please before paying so much money on this thing. I got it yesterday from Jomashop, paid so much money..May be I got bad batch I don;t know.. but it is terrible

I had high hopes for this one, but it's overwhelmingly smoky, and I tend to like leather/smoky perfumes. 3/10

Now this is truly astounding in a fragrance - this smells like the smokey aroma that lingers after real oud (specifically the oud chips steeped in sweetened oud oils, in Dubai mall) has smoldered on charcoal. Oud oil smells different from the smoke of actual oud chips burned on charcoal. The oil derived from distilling oud (or whatever processes are used) can smell a number of ways: funky, medicinal, cheesy, barnyard, and many other harsh ways to describe which I will not use. Western audiences may struggle with authentic oud oils What SOD Diwan does is replicate (to the t) the scent of the smoke from perfumed oud being burned, instead of the funk that comes with concentrated oud oils. I've never encountered a fragrance that replicates the smoke with this degree of accuracy, and I've tried a lot of oud fragrances Diwan transports me to memories of walking around Dubai mall where the scent of oud being burned, is wafting throughout the mall. It's that, in liquid form.

This is ultra gorgeous. It opens with a blast of coffee and fruits immediately followed by strong oud and bakhoor like incense smoke. Its ultra refined and moves toward beautiful bakhoor scent we smell in the malls/souks. Its throughly well blended and reminds me of Carbon Sapphire sans the big rose but both are different though. Here coffee lingers in the background later. There is a beautiful rose hidden in the exotic bakhoor notes. This is a very complex scent. Diwan is like a very distant relative of Majalis who is far more refined, rich and sophisticated. Majalis is sweeter. If you have Majalis in your collection you may want to add Diwan but if you have Diwan then Majalis becomes a bit redundant Coffee doesn't get better than this in perfumery. This was the most exotic expensive and extravagant coffee break ever for me lol. But batch variations do creep in so try it first at Nabeel.

This smells like when you are inside a shisha bar, Imagine that kind of souks / Bakhoor vibes 🥰 But the projection is a bit weak on my skin and doesn't last more than 4hrs -5hrs and i get 7hrs plus on clothes. Although I expect the longevity to be 12 hrs -14hrs based on the asking price tag at least. And also, the dry down smells similar to Haibah, probably due to patchouli or the Arabian coffee which gives the chocolate vibes! Update: 10/08/2023 I pulled this up again today and surprisingly this last almost 9hours on my cloths. The incense, rose, strawberry, peach, dewberry and coffee etc are all magnificent!

Wallahi!! Incense heaven! I absolutely love it. It's strong, sweet (without being cloying or 'sickening' sweet) and may I say MULTI layered What a stunning fragrance, I'm pleasantly surprised. I like this one even more than Baz (which is too smokey for me in the drydown). Diwan does have a slight similarity to Majalis, but Majalis is more dried fruit than Diwan's incense/rose combo. If you like sweet incense/bakhoor, rose and oud then this fragrance is worth checking out.

What a masterpiece. Smoky, fruity oud that projects and lasts. Baz,Abjar and this are the best from the house. There is rose, but not as dominant as others said. I don’t think it smells like more than words. The oud in more than words smells very synthetic compared to this ( I compared the two, one on each hand).

1000$ CAD what the hell, go buy yourself a bike