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Nasheet
Smoke is the first thing anyone notices about Lattafa Nasheet Eau de Parfum 100ml, and it arrives with no citrus preamble at all to soften the landing. Guaiac wood holds the opening on its own. It is a tarry, faintly sweet smoke, something close to a match struck and then blown out, and putting it at the very top of a composition rather than burying it in the base is an unusual decision that gives this bottle its whole character. Nutmeg follows through the heart, dusty and warm, doing the job of a spice without ever becoming food. Then the base settles everything down. Frankincense brings cold, dry resin with a peppery lift to it, cashmeran adds a soft and slightly blurred warmth that reads like clean wool, and sandalwood smooths the arrangement out with a creamy, milky grain.
Five materials, which makes this a short composition by modern standards, and it behaves like one. The smoke thins, the resin and the wood come forward, and from the first half hour onwards you are wearing a quieter version of what you began with. Those who like to track a fragrance through its stages will find little to track. In wear it is long lasting and only moderate in reach, which suits a scent of this kind. It stays near the skin, where smoke and resin are pleasant rather than overbearing, and it holds well into the evening on cloth. Cold weather is its natural home and it reads masculine, though not exclusively so. Evenings and weekends suit it better than a shared office.
The company works out of Sharjah and has a long grounding in the Arabian tradition, which is where a composition as dry as this one comes from. Nasheet is one of its driest and most austere pieces, and it costs a fraction of anything comparable from a Western house.
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