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Key Notes
- Heart notes
- Patchouli
- Base notes
- Musk
- Longevity
- Moderate
- Sillage
- Soft
- Brand
- Zimaya
Zimaya Bahjah Eau de Parfum 100ml is a two material fragrance and there is no point pretending otherwise. Patchouli and musk. That is the whole composition.
Patchouli does almost all of the work. It is the earthiest material in common use, damp and dark, smelling somewhere between turned soil after rain and the inside of an old bookshop. Depending on how it has been treated it can turn inky, slightly medicinal and almost mineral at the edges, and there is a bitterness running under all of it that people either take to at once or never get on with at all. Here it is given room, which is the honest way to use it.
Musk is the other half and its job is softening. It is clean and skin like rather than animal, and it blurs the hard edges so the fragrance sits on the body instead of standing off it. Without the musk this would be a raw material. With it, it is something you can wear to work.
What you do not get is development. There is no opening to enjoy and no drydown to wait for. What you smell after ten minutes is close to what you will smell after four hours, only quieter, and that is worth knowing before you buy rather than after. Plenty of people much prefer a fragrance that states its case once and then holds it.
At eau de parfum strength it has the oil concentration to last well, and because so little is happening it never becomes tiring the way a crowded composition can. It layers unusually well for that same reason, over or under almost anything. Cooler weather flatters patchouli, evenings more than mornings, and it reads unisex. At 100ml this is a great deal of one simple idea, which for the right wearer is exactly the appeal.
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