SamuelGustav

Sapna is a very complex fragrance, beautifully balanced. The opening you are greet with a beautiful nectar effect, ripped mango, peach, plum, fresh mandarin, a touch of sour herbal rosemary and a warm liquor like effect, rapidly it starts to shape into this delicious yet alluring liquor like ambar perfume, beautifully balanced with a lingering tobacco smoke, there's a spicy feel, mainly clove, to the fragrance. 

The center stage, the ambar and the fruity notes are balanced with light touch of jasmin and moss, giving it a light chypre feel to the fragrance. The sweet aspects of the fragrance are present in a natural way, like ripped fruits, yet balanced with spices, sour touches and this tobacco Liquor effect, nonetheless you must enjoy sweet fragrances. 

This is quite a spectacular fragrance. It's grown up, sexy, alluring and quite an impressive blend, top notch quality.

Another beautiful work by Khadlaj, easily my favorite UAE brand, the way they blend and balance their creations is just stunning, mostly when it comes to sweet and vanilla creations, just makes me mouthwatering. Now, this doesn't mean, Fursan White is a gourmand, I don't think so, but it does share some gourmand aspects.
Fursan White is like wearing a dusty vanilla coat, very airy and delicate, the vanilla is not that sweet not sticky, but light and translucent, covered with coconut flakes and a small dose of powdered milk. To balance this somewhat gourmand aspects, there's a dry cedar accord that blends perfectly well with the dusty vanilla, plus some translucent molecules that enhances this cloud of delicious dust. Overall the scent profile is a white dusty vanilla with dry coconut touch and powder milk, plus a light touch of white translucent Jasmin petals just to serve as a light floral layer base.

Bonus points, I don't really get any sharp woody ambers or scratchy notes compared to Vanilla Powder which I find wayy too scratchy and overdosed with woody ambers. Yet they do smell similar, but I don't like Vanilla Powder and I enjoy this one quite a lot. And BTW, there's already a good number vanilla powder takes on the market from other brands too, luxury brands I must say

Absolutely Gorgeous! what can I say about this beauty besides it was an instant love from 1st spray. I had high hopes for this one and they not only met, but went above what I was expecting.

Opens with a mouthwatering juicy pear, fresh bergamot and a very noticeable frankincense, very uplifting and giving an edge to the fragrance. Soon after, the creamy aspect becomes louder, a smooth delicious vanilla with a nutty aspect starts to take the center stage, the pear and frankincense will still have a major role for a long time. There's this abstract floral base that supports all the notes, I mostly get a faint rose if I go look for it, plus some delicate white Jasmin petals, nonetheless there's not a very distinguished rose or jasmin, yet they are crucial to the blend, giving the whole fragrance a fresh and creamy vibration. This whole, creamy delicious fruity incense vanilla stage last for the most part of the fragrance, until we left with a creamy vanilla musky skin scent. Projects and last very well.

Now, many influencers are comparing it to Guidance, you are probably curious, if it is indeed close to Guidance edp, although they indeed share a similar scent profile without even testing them side by side I could already tell that no, they aren't that similar, a bit yes, at best 50% in a similar style to my nose, my question was then answered after testing them side by side which the differences where noticeable. Are you ready to be shocked? I prefer Musk pour Amber (hearing some people in shock and horror), and I really like Guidance! Guidance has an amazing frankincense, and a very Bish molecular structure, plus it's a bit funky in all the good ways, which I love. Musk Pour Amber feels more natural, creamy, floral, a lot fruitier but still with enough incense and bite to make it, to my nose, very much unisex, I don't get the funk here compared to Guidance.

Yeah, Musk pour Amber is simply absolutely gorgeous!

Nothing new here, your nice mainstream smelling perfume, one you smelled a thousand times before, to put it simple, a mainstream blue "masculine" fragrance. To be fair, I do think Epoque Artistique is actually better than 90% of the blue style fragrances on the market, it’s a bit smoother all around, and there's this Khadlaj touch that I love, a creamy vanilla in the base, although buried under this deodorant profile. 

It’s a fragrance for younger guys and more mass appealing public, those who wear fragrances to smell nice and clean. For the price and quality you get here is well worth the money. I love what this brand is doing, and the quality is amazing for a fair price, and I totally see why the need for fragrances like this, they sell well and are indeed, practical fragrances considering the majority of people who wear fragrances, wear it for a practical function, and that’s perfectly ok, just not me, but the younger me would be happy with it.

If you enjoy mass appealing fragrances, mainly designer “blue” fragrances, do give this one a try, surpasses in quality most of your favorite brands, apart from Bleu de Chanel, which to me is still the best one from this style of fragrances.

Rating expresses my taste and originality, most blue generic fragrances I would give a 4 or less for reference.

A stunning Peppery cedar incense with oud, this is pretty much how I describe this fragrance. The oud is somewhat tamed to my nose, although very present, I don’t put it in the novice category, because of some slight animalic facets mostly in the opening, then I find it very much into the dry textured oud with a small touch of animalic nuance. I get, thankfully, only a small good quality apple far far in the background, realistic and fresh, far from the typical cheap apple smell, alongside an abstract floral backbone to the fragrance, providing lift and freshness to the overall composition.

In the heart I get this signature Xerjoff / Chris Maurice cashmeran cypriol musk combo in the background, that I absolutely love, a fuzzy yet luxurious feel to a fragrance, here very well balanced without distracting from the cedar, pepper, oud incense combo.

Although not for everyone, I find it a very gentlemanly perfume, an upgraded and more luxurious cedar incense, Japanese style of Incense so to say, woody smoke rather than straightforward frankincense, with a good quality oud and a fresh quality to it for a more "approachable" feeling, very well blended and indeed luxurious, well, it better be considering the price, although we know this days it’s not often the case.