One of the most popular ingredients in fine perfumery today is oud or agarwood, a material as ancient as the art of perfumery itself, rooted in the culture of the Middle East; highly prized for its unique, aphrodisiac and sensual properties. Three of our favorites are from M.Micallef who hosts our draw
Oud has become the note of the moment, again. With the release of New York Oud, Bond No. 9 takes that most Eastern of notes and melds it with a New York State of Mind to create the first metropolitan oud fragrance. enter our draw for a 110 ml flacon.
As an homage to the finest essences of the East, Richard Fraysse, the Creative Nose for the House of Caron juxtaposed two of the composed the scent around two precious ingredients Saffron and Oud for Secret Oud.
At the 2010 Sniffapalooza Fall Ball we were introduced to Oud For Highness 75 which was made for King Hussein of Jordan. 2009 seemed to have a weekly release of an oud centric fragrance. 2010 has seen that release pattern return to more normal levels. Which is good because if Oud For Highness 75 came out a year earlier I think I might have missed some of its quite beautiful subtleties.
The House of Madini , based in Tangiers, has been in existence for 14 generations
[or 400 years, according to the Talisman website]; Suleiman Madini is the current head of operations.
I’ve collected many of their fragrant concoctions over the years. A prime example of bang for buck is Mokhalate Malaki- loosely translated as ‘blend for the well-born’.
When a baseball player hits a single, a double, a triple, and a home run, in one game, that is called “hitting for the cycle”. It is nothing short of extraordinary and shows the versatility of the hitter to be able to hit safely in every way. Jo Malone’s new in-house perfumer, Master Perfumer Christine Nagel has accomplished a similar feat in the newly released four fragrance collection for Jo Malone, Cologne Intense. Mme. Nagel has fashioned four different fragrant hits and at the same time shown her versatility as an artist. Each one of the four fragrances has a distinct personality and at the same time feels as if they are also part of the Jo Malone collection of fragrances.
