Amber Oud
The 60ml is the sensible way into this fragrance, and Al Haramain Amber Oud Eau de Parfum 60ml, dated 2018, is the bottle to buy if you want to live with the scent for a while before committing to a larger one.
It opens dry and herbal. Rosemary is the first thing you notice, green and slightly medicinal, with lemon and bergamot giving it a citrus edge that burns off quickly. Cedarwood is in the opening too, which is unusual, and it means the wood is there from the first spray rather than arriving later.
That cedarwood then carries straight into the middle, where guaiac wood joins it. Guaiac is the more interesting of the pair, smoky and faintly tarry with a sweetish, almost rose tinged edge, and together the two make a heart that is all wood and no flowers. If you dislike floral fragrances, this is a useful thing to know. The close is short and warm. Amber and musk are the only two materials in it, and they do exactly what you would expect, amber adding resinous sweetness and musk pressing the whole thing into the skin. It keeps the drydown simple, and after an hour or so what you are wearing is a soft warm wood and very little else. The eau de parfum concentration gives respectable longevity and keeps the projection modest after the first half hour, so it is office safe and easy in company. It reads masculine, suits autumn and winter, and the smaller bottle means you can finish it rather than watching it sit half full for years.
Al Haramain entered perfumery in 1970 through Kazi Abdul Haque, whose first trade was out of a few stores in Makkah and Madinah. His son Mohammed Mahtabur Rahman expanded the perfume side into the business it is now, selling its own production across nearly a hundred Gulf shops.
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