Gray
Three materials is all we hold for Ajmal Gray Eau de Parfum 100ml, released in 2020, and it is a better fragrance for the honesty: this is a short composition and it does not pretend otherwise.
Oakmoss, amber and leather is the whole of it. Oakmoss is earthy and a little damp, the smell of bark and shade rather than anything green and growing, and it gives the fragrance its dry, slightly bitter spine. Leather sits right beside it, dark and smoky in the way tanned hide is, firm but not aggressive. Amber is the third element and the only warm one, and it is what makes the other two wearable, rounding the dampness and the smoke into something that reads rich rather than severe. There is no opening to speak of and no development to wait for. You get the full picture within a few minutes and it holds its shape from there, darkening slightly as the amber gains on the moss. People who find modern fragrance overcrowded tend to like this sort of thing. People who enjoy following a scent through its stages will find it static. The eau de parfum strength suits it. Three dense materials at this concentration means real longevity and a trail that stays close and serious rather than projecting across a room. Cold weather and evenings are where it belongs, and it reads masculine. One or two sprays is enough, because leather and oakmoss both reward restraint.
Ajmal began in 1951 under Haji Ajmal Ali, who left Assam for Mumbai and built a business supplying fragrance materials into the Gulf market. The firm is still in family hands, works out of Dubai today, and is among the region's largest fragrance companies, with its own supply chain running all the way through to its own shops.
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