Thebes is a homage to Guerlain Djedi. To even attempt such a project is huge because Djedi (I have tested the Thierry Wasser vintage reproduction) is such a peculiar and mysterious scent.
Djedi is the most atmospheric perfume I have ever smelled, and it doesn't project conventional seduction, on the contrary, it could be described as 'The beautiful dead'.
To me, the greatest perfumes make you forget ingredients and composition... and take you elsewhere.
Somehow, Sultan Pasha has captured this bizarre and forbidding atmosphere in his attar Thebes.
The crisp spring morning opening with lily of the valley prominent to the sky, beautifully balanced with comforting but deep orris to the ground. The whole soon swathed in a strange, beautiful doom, as if visiting an Egyptian tomb, with a peaceful, ancient atmosphere that you have never experienced before. But it is delightful.
The dry down is very complex and has, like Djedi, to me anyway, a really ancient leather slippers smell. Not that I have smelled any ancient slippers.
