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Sensuous Night
A full 100ml bottle, eleven materials and a price well under anything a designer house would charge for this much fragrance: that is the case for Khadlaj Perfumes Sensuous Night Eau de Parfum 100ml. The opening is tart. Green apple is the loudest thing in it, crisp and sour rather than sweet, with lemon sharpening the edge and pineapple adding a juicy tropical note behind. It is a bright, slightly sticky start and it does not last long. What follows is the best part. Blackcurrant brings a dark, almost green sourness that bridges the fruit and the flowers, then jasmine, rose and violet arrive together, jasmine warm and full bodied, rose rounded, violet sweet and powdery. It is a classic arrangement handled without fuss.
The base is where the name comes from. Patchouli is earthy and a little damp, cedarwood dry and sharpened, amber warm and resinous, and vanilla smooths all three into something softer than the sum of its parts. Released in 2023, it dries down considerably sweeter and darker than it begins, so judge it at the two hour mark rather than in the shop. As an eau de parfum it performs well for the money, six hours or more with a trail that stays about an arm's length away after the opening. It works for evenings and cold weather, reads feminine, and makes more sense as a going out fragrance than an office one.
Khadlaj Perfumes is a United Arab Emirates manufacturer founded in 1997 whose output covers Arabian style perfumes, attars, bakhoor and body mists. Its long sellers are Hareem Al Sultan and Bukhoor Al Bahaar, its newer lines include Azure Velvet and Saqr Al Badiya, and the company puts its showroom network at roughly twenty across the UAE and Oman.
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