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4
A desert road ...
Nejma Three by Pascal Morabito arrived in the mail yesterday and I really had to contain myself to just give it a little test spray as I planned to wear it today :) ... which I am ... seeing that I wore Nejma Two yesterday LOL. I didn't even wait to get home from the Post Office ... ripped the box open in the car and whacked it on ... HIGH EXCITEMENT!! But I digress ...
Nejma Three starts life high on Roses ... straight out of the bottle!!
By all accounts, there are three types of Rose present here - Bulgarian, Arabian and Damask - so I'm assuming that the Arabian Rose here must be Taifi a.k.a Rosa Damascena Trigintipetala.
There is no certainty on how the 30-petal damask rose first came to Taif, a town located high in the Sarawat Mountains of western Saudi Arabia. It is is virtually identical to the famous Bulgarian kazanlik variety, suggesting that Taif's roses may have been imported from the Balkans by the Ottoman Turks, who occupied that area from the mid-14th century. However, the kazanlik Rose also has roots in the Persian rose plantations around Shiraz and Kashan, which supplied fields in Syria. One legend says that the flower originally came from India.
History lesson over ... it's still quite confusing because these three roses seem to be the same thing. Growing in different parts of the world, however, probably imbues them with different characteristics. What I can attest to is their radiant and pristine beauty in this fragrance ... the Rose here is just phenomenal!! 'Pink Ice' would be a good way to describe the scent of them ... the aroma is bright and crystalline!
The Oud here is soft and a little sensual, no doubt fed some creaminess by the Sandalwood and so removing that often experienced 'medicinal' edge. I don't get any Hibiscus apart from a welcome 'green-ness' and the Ylang Ylang here is probably added more as a fixative measure than actual scent ... but there is an undeniable tropical aspect to the far dry down.
I would hesitate to say that this fragrance is overly feminine, but that would depend on the masculine wearer's fondness of Roses.
I find Nejma Three to be triumphant!! A beautiful example of the genre, I would recommend it to anyone looking to experience the traditional Arabic Rose/Oud combination.
