Souvenir Floral Bouquet
Rhubarb is a strange thing to find in a floral perfume, and it is the reason Afnan Souvenir Floral Bouquet Eau de Parfum 100ml is more interesting than its name suggests. Lychee starts it with a rosy, watery juiciness, bergamot cuts in with clean citrus bitterness, and rhubarb brings a green, sour, almost vegetal tartness that stops the fruit from being sweet. It is a sharp, slightly odd opening, and it makes the flowers that follow far more welcome than they would have been after a conventional citrus start.
Flowers fill the middle, and they are the familiar ones. Rose gives depth, peony a dewy transparency and lily of the valley its cool green cleanness, with vanilla underneath them already softening the arrangement and preparing the ending. That ending is musk and amber, which is about as short a base as a fragrance can have: clean warmth and a resinous glow, nothing more. The perfumer was Imran Fazlani and the year was 2020. Endurance is good and the reach moderate, the fragrance tucking itself in near the skin after the first hour or two. Spring and summer suit it, daytime suits it, and it reads as a feminine fragrance of the straightforwardly pretty kind, with just enough tartness in the opening to stop it being forgettable. At 100ml it is also cheap enough to use freely rather than ration out over a season.
Behind it is an Emirati perfume house that opened in 2007 and blends and fills everything itself in the Emirates, with no fashion licence involved. The 9 AM scents are the products it leads with, and Bouquet is one of four collections, the others being Turathi, Supremacy and Kiaana.
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