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24 Carat White Gold
Where the gold version of this pair goes straight for oud, Lattafa 24 Carat White Gold Eau de Parfum 100ml saves it for the end and spends the first hour being almost polite. Orange blossom opens it, clean and slightly honeyed, with bergamot sharpening that into something closer to a cologne. The middle is the interesting stretch. Nutmeg is dusty and warm, lavender is herbal and faintly soapy, pink pepper is rosy and dry, and geranium adds a green, metallic rosiness, so you get four materials pulling in four directions and none of them sweet.
Only then does the oud arrive, and it is treated as a dark resin instead of a smoke, with vetiver beside it adding a rooty bitterness and tonka bean supplying a sweetness that stays dry rather than turning into dessert. The effect is formal, dry and a little severe, and it is a long way from the house's sweeter output.
In this concentration you will get eight hours, and it projects well for the first two, so two sprays will do for an evening. Cool weather suits it, as do dinners, weddings and anything requiring a jacket, and it leans masculine without excluding anyone. If the gold bottle struck you as too heavy, this is the one to try instead. The two are not really versions of the same scent, either: one argues its case with resin and spice from the opening second, while this one holds its darkness back until you have stopped waiting for it.
Lattafa is Emirati, with production in Sharjah, and it built the business on oud and on the attar trade before adding perfumery in the European manner. Seven labels now sit under one owner, and the two bottles that carried the name furthest abroad were Yara and Khamrah.
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