Utur Al-Yaqut Shujae
Eleven materials is an unusually long list for a bottle at this money, and Utur Al-Yaqut Shujae Eau de Parfum 100ml spends all of them. Bergamot, licorice and cardamom open it, which is a strange and good combination; the bergamot is bright and bitter, the licorice sweet in an anise sort of way, and the cardamom cool and resinous against both. Lavender and nutmeg follow, the lavender clean and a little barbershop, the nutmeg dusty and warm. Then the long tail arrives and it is where the scent actually lives. Patchouli and vetiver give it earth and a damp rootiness, leather adds a dry animal edge, labdanum thickens the whole thing with something close to resin, caramel feeds in a thin line of sweetness so the leather does not turn harsh, and white musk pulls it all tight against the skin.
That is a lot happening, and it changes noticeably over an evening, which is the pleasure of it. It is not a scent for a desk at nine in the morning. Autumn and winter, nights out, and a cooler room rather than a crowded one. It reads masculine, though the caramel and lavender give it enough softness that this is a matter of taste rather than rule. Two sprays, and let it sit for twenty minutes before you decide anything about it. Six of the eleven materials sit in that final stretch, which is where the scent spends most of its hours, and it is why the first spray tells you very little about it. A 30ml bottle of the same thing is sold at 24 euro if you would rather not buy a full 100ml of something this busy.
Saphir sells its own lines, of which Utur Al-Yaqut is one, next to designer fragrances it manufactures under licence, and that second business is part of why a scent with eleven materials in it can be priced like this. The Saphir bottles themselves are all filled in Spain, at the company's Zaragoza plant, which has a research centre of its own on site.
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