Stunning! (at first) This is an unlikely favourite in the shape of a sort of gourmand attar, very sweet opening of citruses and jelly sweets with, boozy incense and then woods. It's a dizzying and rich composition, I have to say that I love the opening more than when it's settled, but it does become more rounded, grown up, less sweet. Harder to describe notes and categorise. I like it though.
Launched in 2017 and classified as an Oriental Vanilla.
The nose is Sultan Pasha.
Top: meyer lemon, blood orange, bergamot, lavender, birch, spices
Heart: white Alba truffles, damascena rose, jasmine grandiflorum, orris pallida butter
Base: white ambergris, Mysore sandalwood, civet, musk, opoponax, guaicwood, honey, patchouli, Siamese benzoin, tonka, Tahitian vanilla, Madagascan vanilla.
Opens ups very light and brightly sweet with a hint of florals, you get the lemon and blood orange mostly in the few moments of application. After that this scent develops this lovely gourmand. It's a gourmand, but not overly vanilla based. Its sweet, but not overly sugary, it's smooth and slightly creamy. Has a subtle woody quality, but the woody quality has an edible quality. There's also a lovely buttery quality to the composition.
Quite a difficult review to conduct, as I've never smelt anything like this before, so difficult to dissect the notes.
As with most sultan Pasha attars, the performance is very good! I got at least 8 hours of longevity with healthy projection.
Overall rating of 4/5.