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Fakhar Rose
Where its sibling is dry and herbal, Lattafa Fakhar Rose Eau de Parfum 100ml goes in entirely the other direction, with one of the largest flower lists in the catalogue. It opens oddly and well. Lily is cool and green, pomegranate gives a tart red fruit sweetness, and aldehydes lift the pair with that soapy, slightly fizzy brightness that old school perfumery used to announce itself. For a moment it smells like a much more expensive fragrance.
The middle is a wall of flowers, seven of them. Tuberose and gardenia supply the creamy weight, jasmine the heady sweetness, ylang ylang a banana like richness, honeysuckle something nectared and light, rose the familiar depth, and peony a watery freshness that keeps air in the arrangement. It should be a mess and it is not, largely because each material is kept in proportion rather than allowed to shout. Fourteen materials is a great many to keep in order, and this one stays in order.
The base is deliberately plain so the bouquet can hold the stage. Vanilla warms it, white musk cleans it, sandalwood dries it out and ambroxan gives the whole thing a modern mineral polish and most of its reach.
Projection is considerable for the first two hours and longevity runs to eight. This is an occasion fragrance: weddings, parties, evenings, cold weather. It is aimed at women and it is emphatically floral, so anyone who dislikes that register will not be converted. The bottle dates from 2022.
The man who built Lattafa learned the business in his uncle's perfume shop after arriving from Pakistan, and the house has since become one of the most recognisable names in Gulf perfumery.
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