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Smoky Touch
Tobacco is named twice in Maison Alhambra Smoky Touch Eau de Parfum 80ml, once at the top and once in the heart, and with only three materials in the whole composition that repetition is the entire structure.
What it produces is a scent that arrives fully formed. Tobacco here is the sweet dried leaf sort rather than the ashtray sort, warm and faintly molasses sweet, with the dusty quality of a pouch rather than the acrid one of a cigarette. Having it occupy two stages means there is no moment where it hands over to anything else; it simply deepens.
Vanilla and tonka bean sit with it in the heart and do the softening. Vanilla rounds the dryness off with a creamy sweetness, and tonka bean adds a powdery warmth with a faint bitterness underneath it, which is exactly the quality that keeps tobacco compositions from turning into pudding. The three together are a classic combination and they are used here without complication. This is a short composition and there is nothing to be gained by pretending otherwise. There is no development to wait for and no clever turn in the third hour. What you get is a warm sweet smoke that holds steady and fades slowly, which for a lot of people is exactly what they want from this style.
Autumn and winter are its seasons, evening its time, and it reads masculine leaning without being closed off. In 80ml and at eau de parfum strength there is enough oil in it to last, and it performs better on a jumper or a coat than on bare skin.
Maison Alhambra is a label of the Sharjah perfumery firm Lattafa Perfumes Ind. LLC, which owns the registered name and manufactures the line itself.
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