Golden Dallah

From the start I can feel something deliciously sweet, verging on chewy but covered in cigarette smoke. I was thinking dates, because it's something edible, and covered with exotic spices. I also had an image of dates being roasted in a fire made of exotic woods. During a night. It's very intimate in sillage, subtle but present. It warms up my currently cold skin. It's autumn already and I have circa 18-21 degrees celsius inside my room which is not exactly my comfort temperature ;) The image it paints: Both the cigarettes and the exotic scent are of high quality. They surround someone bright and emotionally warm. The scent is multifaceted and unique. A very outgoing aura that brightens up cold, boring days and evenings. I just might start to love it. It is a time warping teleport for me. I used to love to smoke, but only in a good company and place, and even this prooved to be time specific.. I used to love Kenzo Jungle, and would use it all the time since I fell in love with it at my 18. I am not sure if I've been using it during a day in my still highschool time, but if so, till the evening it would soften to this amount of spice when I was out and about after school or in the evening with my then friends. It's also very possible that I was only using it during the evening back then. My school was the no make up - nothing revealing type, and I was not used to parfums during a day. Going out in the evening though, I would hide my fav scent under my clothes and scarf, and it's been o.k to smoke in the place I've been regularly visiting. Smoking plus socializing was the main attraction of that place ;) Then my scent would get covered with cigarette smoke, melting into my clothes and leather coat that I loved to wear back then. Voila ! The smell of Golden Dallah :)

My first try from Xerjoff’s Coffee Break collection is Golden Dallah, the member of the collection that seems to be reputed to actually contain the most coffee. I definitely fall into the camp of immediately smelling cannabis upon first spray, perhaps the effect the named Cambodian oud note, the overall blend smelling like a mix of cannabis, coffee, resins, and just a touch of cocoa. It’s a great blend that hints at being a sweet gourmand while really only being partly that, instead a coupling of the cocoa/resins and oud/cannabis aspect. And it performs very well, with strong projection from the onset and seemingly quite great longevity. To clarify, though, the coffee is present but not dominant. I would not label this a coffee-rich, let alone a coffee-dominant fragrance, at least based on how it smells on my skin. The cannabis accord in Golden Dallah reminds me of two of Dua Fragrances’ two original blends—Cannabliss with the Mobster and Pineapple Express—with Golden Dallah landing somewhere between the dark boozy tobacco vibe of the former and fresh fruity aspect of the latter. Golden Dallah is priced at $235 for 50ml and is sold by great boutiques like Beverly Hills Perfumery and Luckyscent as well as Saks Fifth Avenue and the Xerjoff Universe website. I obtained my sample from the Xerjoff website but both Beverly Hills Perfumery and Luckyscent sell the official spray samples in addition to full bottles. Overall, this is a clear winner that may be a little challenging due to the sort of cannabis/oud accord, but for those that enjoy it, it might be a welcome, daring, semi-gourmand. 8 out of 10

I never had a chance to try a sample of it even I heard many good things about it until I found a deal for Black Friday from Saks then I blind bought it. I was kinda disappointed when I first sprayed it even though I could definitely smell the quality of it because its opening smells so much like the Angels’ Share I got not too long ago except it’s missing the cognac note and something brighter in the opening. I knew Angels’ Share is new and it’s sure not a clone of AS but I’m disappointed not because of its quality or bad scent. It’s just because I always try not to get something similar. Lucky that it smells totally different than the AS after the dry down. Its dry down is woody oriental plus incense with the coffee gives it a cozy warm feel and the rose give it a bright feel at the same time while AS is dark boozy all the way with oak in the base. I can’t quite detect the oud and cacao though. Instead, I get the creamy amber from the base, which I always love. They’re actually so different except the similar first impression. Longevity is great. Last about 9-10 hours on my skin. Not huge projection but also not skin scent. People would definitely smell you within 1-2 feet of you. Overall very nice scent and I love it as I always love cozy warm scents. It is a coffee base perfume with the most coffee note I can detect and I love coffee. It is very high quality and well blended as Xerjoff always has. It is definitely a 9/10 for me. Alexandria II is still my favorite from Xerjoff and 10/10 for me tho.

I’ve yet to find a frag from Xerjoff that I dislike. I have 9 in total, and love each one of them. I consider Xerjoff to be my number 1 house, followed by Parfums de Marly and By Kilian both in 2nd place. This frag is ever so mystical (to me), and I get hints of candy, but I also get a strong (not a hint) smell of cannabis on my skin, not in a horrible or off putting way, and most certainly not making you smell like you were just having a couple of tokes with Cheech & Chong, but it starts about 5 minutes after the initial spritz and then I get nostalgia with flashbacks of when I used to live in Egypt and would visit the coffee shops in the centre of Cairo that had been there for decades and decades. This is a very well blended frag, that really does paint a picture (in my mind’s eye) of the Middle Eastern coffee shops, not the coffee in itself, but the whole aroma that comes with it, with a sense of cannabis, but saying that I love the story it’s telling me, and where it’s transporting me to, I can not stop sniffing it, it’s fabulous and luxurious and nostalgic. I’d rate it more masculine leaning, but I can’t see how a woman can’t pull this off, but for me, I personally wouldn’t like to smell it on a woman, it has no feminine vibe in it, and has a smoky feel to it, again as if you were in a Middle Eastern coffee shop, with the sheesha, spices and coffee aromas. It’s gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous, the mystery, nostalgia slight sweetness is simply divine, yet another win from Xerjoff for me.

Guys, I swear, I bought a sample 1 week ago, because I knew it will be fantastic. I sprayed it for the first time, and I went out with my friends to a beer fest. In the ending of the evening one girl came to me, and she told me that she and her girlfriend remembered me, when I walked at their table and when they smelled my perfume, they adored it. She asked from me what it was. That was the first time, when I used the scent! I think that speaks for itself. That’s a beast. Golden Dallah is a luxury, warm, charming, and long lasting fragrance. It’s unisex, however it's definitely in the manly way, so it's maybe not the best option for women. In the first minutes you can feel the spices, and after the warm tonka bean, the light oud arrives with a very soft smokeness. I don't smell the coffee in this, but it's not a problem for me. Excellent for autumn. It's hard to overdose it, because the sillage is balanced. Maybe it’s not so popular than other scents of Xerjoff, but this one is a real treasure. I saw it today on a very popular and reliable website at half price (about 140€), so I ordered it. I’m excited ‘cause it will be my first Xerjoff. Golden Dallah has a great chance to be my signature scent. Okay, it’s not cheap at full price, but really worth it. If women chasing an unknown man to find out what is he wearing than I don’t need to say more. Buy it, you won’t regret it.🫡