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An original take ...
I love Roses ... especially middle eastern ones, but give me a Rose fragrance and I am generally happy. I love Cedar too ... so add them together and a fragrance comes into existence that I absolutely have to have. Rose Malaki ticked the boxes enough for me to chance a blind, inflight duty free purchase ... and I couldn't be happier!
Upon initial application, I was a touch disappointed ... the Rose/Saffron combination too reminiscent of so many others in this genre. I suppose that when these two ingredients are used together, the way they combine is so typical that no other olfactory experienced could be reached.
I was sitting there, wafting my arm around in front of my face, waiting for the Oud to appear, which it did not. Instead, a really gorgeous cedar note started making it's way up through what, by now, had become masses of slightly dusty Damascus roses ... lifting them from midday stupor as if the Cedar was the herald of a cool evening.
The thick, velvety Rose petals in combination with a touch of leather create the feeling of soft suede on the skin ... while the whole experience is sweetened ever so slightly by the presence of a little Vanilla.
Rose Malaki is undoubtedly a spicy Rose ... but not in the way one would imagine a spicy fragrance to be. It's almost as if the spice here is carried into the room from afar on a subtle breeze while an open cedar box used to store suede gloves catches petals from a huge arrangement of Roses placed next to it.
I haven't been moved to poetic writing about a fragrance in some time ... this one conjures up very specific pictures in my head, of opulence and luxury, marble balustrades and dusty desert sunsets ... and silk window hangings fluttering gently on spiced breezes.
Try it ... I dare you!!
Upon initial application, I was a touch disappointed ... the Rose/Saffron combination too reminiscent of so many others in this genre. I suppose that when these two ingredients are used together, the way they combine is so typical that no other olfactory experienced could be reached.
I was sitting there, wafting my arm around in front of my face, waiting for the Oud to appear, which it did not. Instead, a really gorgeous cedar note started making it's way up through what, by now, had become masses of slightly dusty Damascus roses ... lifting them from midday stupor as if the Cedar was the herald of a cool evening.
The thick, velvety Rose petals in combination with a touch of leather create the feeling of soft suede on the skin ... while the whole experience is sweetened ever so slightly by the presence of a little Vanilla.
Rose Malaki is undoubtedly a spicy Rose ... but not in the way one would imagine a spicy fragrance to be. It's almost as if the spice here is carried into the room from afar on a subtle breeze while an open cedar box used to store suede gloves catches petals from a huge arrangement of Roses placed next to it.
I haven't been moved to poetic writing about a fragrance in some time ... this one conjures up very specific pictures in my head, of opulence and luxury, marble balustrades and dusty desert sunsets ... and silk window hangings fluttering gently on spiced breezes.
Try it ... I dare you!!
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