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Azlan Oud Charcoal Edition
Al Haramain Azlan Oud Charcoal Edition Extrait de Parfum 100ml takes the sweet and smoky idea of its line and strips it down to eight materials, which makes it the clearest of the set.
Pink pepper opens, dry and rosy and sparkling, with caramel arriving almost immediately underneath it. That is an unusual thing to meet in the first minute of a fragrance, and it works rather well: burnt sugar against pepper is a sharper and more interesting combination than burnt sugar against fruit ever is. Rose completes the opening, full and a little jammy, and it bridges straight into the middle.
Cedarwood, amber and guaiac wood hold the centre. Cedarwood is dry and sawn, amber is warm and resinous, and guaiac wood is the one that gives this its name, smoky and tarry with an oily, almost charred quality. The three of them turn the sweetness of the opening into something considerably darker.
Leather and musk close it out. The leather is dry and a touch animal rather than polished and buffed, and the musk holds everything against the skin. The finish is smoky, sweet and quite long, and it is the part of the scent most people will actually live with, since the opening is over in twenty minutes.
It is an extrait de parfum, so the oil load is high and the longevity follows: a full day is normal and fabric will carry it longer. Apply it lightly. Cold weather and evenings are its territory, and it reads as unisex with a definite lean towards the masculine. Al Haramain, which makes it, has produced and sold fragrance across the Gulf for over fifty years, from a start in 1970 under Kazi Abdul Haque.
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