03/09/2024
DrB1414
148 Reviews
DrB1414
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"Birth of Venus"
Al-Ghaliyah Bulgare Fleuri Et Animalique by Elixir Attar.
I would rank this as the best floral composition experienced. It is named Ghaliyah and for good reasons. There is no shortage of quality materials used here. But it's not about the ingredients. It's about the result. I'll keep this review short because someone else, a Renaissance painter known as Sandro Botticelli, illustrated it for me through his most renowned piece, "Birth of Venus". This painting is the imagery I get before my eyes when I smell this perfume. If you can make an effort and immerse yourself in the painting, you'll know what it smells like. Warm, oceanic, fresh, musky, and floral. The breeze of the ocean, the water splashing the rocks, the sweaty, warm skin, and the lush floral bouquet. The garden of Eden, the nakedness of the body, the ocean's smell. The florals used here are not your typical ones. I smell Lilacs, Fressia, Gardenia, and Lilly of the Valley. Most of these are usually found in perfumes as built-up accords since they can't be extracted, but in this composition, you get the actual smell of these flowers, extracted through the traditional method of Enfleurage. Therefore, they not only smell natural but also feel softer, and gentler than if absolutes were used. There is a lot of ambergris in this providing that mineral, oceanic, and salty smell, and heaps of natural deer musk to ground everything. Ahmed decided to use a very different Oud in the base, a Walla Patta oud, which only helps to perpetuate the aquamarine and the dense, creamy facets of the perfume. The ingredients marry seamlessly to create an inseparable whole that would befit Venus, the fairest of them all.
IG:@memory.of.scents
I would rank this as the best floral composition experienced. It is named Ghaliyah and for good reasons. There is no shortage of quality materials used here. But it's not about the ingredients. It's about the result. I'll keep this review short because someone else, a Renaissance painter known as Sandro Botticelli, illustrated it for me through his most renowned piece, "Birth of Venus". This painting is the imagery I get before my eyes when I smell this perfume. If you can make an effort and immerse yourself in the painting, you'll know what it smells like. Warm, oceanic, fresh, musky, and floral. The breeze of the ocean, the water splashing the rocks, the sweaty, warm skin, and the lush floral bouquet. The garden of Eden, the nakedness of the body, the ocean's smell. The florals used here are not your typical ones. I smell Lilacs, Fressia, Gardenia, and Lilly of the Valley. Most of these are usually found in perfumes as built-up accords since they can't be extracted, but in this composition, you get the actual smell of these flowers, extracted through the traditional method of Enfleurage. Therefore, they not only smell natural but also feel softer, and gentler than if absolutes were used. There is a lot of ambergris in this providing that mineral, oceanic, and salty smell, and heaps of natural deer musk to ground everything. Ahmed decided to use a very different Oud in the base, a Walla Patta oud, which only helps to perpetuate the aquamarine and the dense, creamy facets of the perfume. The ingredients marry seamlessly to create an inseparable whole that would befit Venus, the fairest of them all.
IG:@memory.of.scents
