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Azlan Oud Amber Edition
Thirteen materials and eight of them in the base: Al Haramain Azlan Oud Amber Edition Extrait de Parfum 100ml is built from the bottom up, and the top is little more than a doorway.
Bergamot and grapefruit give a brief bitter citrus lift, clary sage adds a herbal, slightly nutty sweetness beside them, and within twenty minutes all three have handed over. Carnation and leather run the middle. Carnation is spicy and peppery with a dry baked heat to it, leather is dry, smoky and a touch animal, and together they make a short, dark bridge rather than a floral heart.
The base is the whole fragrance. Tolu balsam is sweet, resinous and faintly spiced, guaiac wood is smoky and tarry, cedarwood is dry and sawn, caramel smells of sugar taken to the edge of burning, vanilla rounds everything off and tonka bean sits between the two sweet materials with a soft, slightly bitter powderiness. Amber glows under all of it and musk holds the lot against skin. It is a dense, sweet, smoky finish and it goes on for hours.
Extrait de parfum strength on a base this heavy means serious longevity. Expect a full day on skin and two on a coat, and spray accordingly, because this is not a composition that rewards enthusiasm. Winter, evenings and cold rooms suit it, and it is wasted in summer, where the sweetness turns heavy within the hour. It reads as masculine leaning unisex, and it will find most of its audience among people who already own something smoky and want more of it.
Founded in 1970, Al Haramain makes what it sells and sells it through its own shops around the Gulf, which is rarer in this market than it sounds.
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