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Utur Al-Yaqut Ruh
Utur Al-Yaqut Ruh Eau de Parfum 100ml is sweet and makes no apology about it. Caramel opens, and it is cooked caramel, with the faint burnt edge the real thing gets when it has been left on the heat a moment longer than it should have been. Honey follows and thickens everything, heavier and slightly waxy, more like the comb than the jar. Vanilla and white musk take the long final stretch, the vanilla warm and rounded, the white musk clean and faintly soapy, and that soapiness is what rescues the whole thing. Without it the first two materials would be too much; with it the scent reads as warm skin rather than as baking.
Four materials, nothing cryptic, and no stage where you lose track of what you are smelling. It is a close wearing scent that people only notice when they are near you, which is either exactly what you want or not at all what you want. Cold months suit it. It is the bottle to reach for if compliments on sweet things are a thing that happens to you, and one spray is genuinely enough. Honey appears nowhere else in the range, and while caramel and white musk both return in Shujae, they are buried there under much darker materials, so this is the bottle to take if sweetness is the point rather than a detail. There is also a 30ml bottle of Ruh at 24 euro, which is the cheaper way to find out whether you can live with something this rich.
100ml of it at eau de parfum strength will see out a year of regular wearing without much thought about running low. Saphir has been making and distributing fragrance since 1940, starting life as a family warehouse in Zaragoza under the name Almacenes Corinto. The Spanish company runs its own lines, this range among them, alongside designer fragrances it holds licences to produce, which is how the pricing on its own work stays as low as it does.
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