The Scent Blog

Amber: The Warm Heart of Arabic Fragrance

Amber: The Warm Heart of Arabic Fragrance

Amber is the most universally beloved base note in Arabic perfumery, warm, enveloping, slightly sweet, and extraordinarily long-lasting. This guide explains what fragrance amber actually is (different from fossil amber),...

Amber: The Warm Heart of Arabic Fragrance

Amber is the most universally beloved base note in Arabic perfumery, warm, enveloping, slightly sweet, and extraordinarily long-lasting. This guide explains what fragrance amber actually is (different from fossil amber),...

Flora: The Floral Dimension of Arabic Perfumery

Flora: The Floral Dimension of Arabic Perfumery

The floral dimension of Arabic perfumery, genuine rose absolute, real jasmine, orange blossom, and saffron, is fundamentally different from the synthetic floral accords of mainstream Western fragrance. Here is a...

Flora: The Floral Dimension of Arabic Perfumery

The floral dimension of Arabic perfumery, genuine rose absolute, real jasmine, orange blossom, and saffron, is fundamentally different from the synthetic floral accords of mainstream Western fragrance. Here is a...

Musk: The Poet's Fragrance and Its Place in Arabic Perfume

Musk: The Poet's Fragrance and Its Place in Ara...

Arabic poets have written about musk for over a thousand years, as the scent of intimacy, of beauty, of the finest things. Here is why musk deserves that literary attention:...

Musk: The Poet's Fragrance and Its Place in Ara...

Arabic poets have written about musk for over a thousand years, as the scent of intimacy, of beauty, of the finest things. Here is why musk deserves that literary attention:...

Agarwood: The Holy Tree at the Heart of Arabic Perfumery

Agarwood: The Holy Tree at the Heart of Arabic ...

Agarwood, the resin-saturated heartwood of infected Aquilaria trees, is simultaneously the most expensive wood in the world, a material mentioned in Islamic hadith, and the defining ingredient of Arabic perfumery....

Agarwood: The Holy Tree at the Heart of Arabic ...

Agarwood, the resin-saturated heartwood of infected Aquilaria trees, is simultaneously the most expensive wood in the world, a material mentioned in Islamic hadith, and the defining ingredient of Arabic perfumery....