Top Notes 
Labdanum
Calamus
Cypress
Heart Notes 
Cinnamon
Jasmine
Rose
Zalkribtul
Base Notes 
Balsamic notes
Benzoin
Cedar
Amber
Oud
Vanilla
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सहारा बाम - Sahara Medicine
The last rhizomes before the vast desert brush camphor-cool bitter substances onto the cracked skin of your legs. Tiny rose metal thorns are shimmering in the undergrowth of the fading steppe. Cedars break pencil leads in the cinnamon dust of parched earth. Above it, the web of a bark blowing softly in the distance, carries tobacco-leaf moss fur in the light of the setting sun of the evenings. The sky then paints medicine from benzoin like balm silk onto your wounds.
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Gulabsingh Johrimal from Delhi is one of the oldest traditional fragrance houses still in existence in India, the country where the foundations of perfume production were probably laid over 5,000 years ago. Since 1816, Gulabsingh Johrimal has been producing attars, oil essences, and perfumes, among other things, using time-honored methods. The earlier, numbered products seem like forces of nature that reach far back into India's fragrance memory.
The newer blends, which include “Sahara Oudh,” appear more transparent, more restrained, and perhaps a little more refined in their design. First, there is the camphor-like bitter calamus, spiked with a hint of cool cypress needle, in which almost metallic rose thorns seem to shimmer. Delicate pencil notes (I suspect cedar) contribute to the silvery impression before the cinnamon first sharpens and then warms up. Soon, the earthy nuances of calamus seem to combine with the labdanum resin from the base, which in turn brings out brown mossy and soon tobacco-like aromas. From then on, the fragrance takes a turn, with very tentative but clearly perceptible, almost medicinal benzoin notes rising to the fore, underscored by subtle vanilla and traces of oud, which, like soft bark, merely adds a little structure to the increasingly balsamic resins. Soothing and calming.
(With thanks to Snoopyelfi and ElAttarine)
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Gulabsingh Johrimal from Delhi is one of the oldest traditional fragrance houses still in existence in India, the country where the foundations of perfume production were probably laid over 5,000 years ago. Since 1816, Gulabsingh Johrimal has been producing attars, oil essences, and perfumes, among other things, using time-honored methods. The earlier, numbered products seem like forces of nature that reach far back into India's fragrance memory.
The newer blends, which include “Sahara Oudh,” appear more transparent, more restrained, and perhaps a little more refined in their design. First, there is the camphor-like bitter calamus, spiked with a hint of cool cypress needle, in which almost metallic rose thorns seem to shimmer. Delicate pencil notes (I suspect cedar) contribute to the silvery impression before the cinnamon first sharpens and then warms up. Soon, the earthy nuances of calamus seem to combine with the labdanum resin from the base, which in turn brings out brown mossy and soon tobacco-like aromas. From then on, the fragrance takes a turn, with very tentative but clearly perceptible, almost medicinal benzoin notes rising to the fore, underscored by subtle vanilla and traces of oud, which, like soft bark, merely adds a little structure to the increasingly balsamic resins. Soothing and calming.
(With thanks to Snoopyelfi and ElAttarine)
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