Wisal Dhahab

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The fruity part is short-lived. You can include these fruit notes all you want, but these top notes come and go in 10 secs before being occupied by synthetic rose (+ huge amount of geranium), musk bomb, some sweet florals, and some red fruits. I find the scent to be overwhelming, one-dimensional, and stuffy, especially when it's all about rose. This is more powdery and musky than woody. I believe it has synthetic ambroxan or something that makes it project like crazy. Sillage is huge that it causes me a headache sometimes, so 1-2 spray is more than enough, although longevity on 'my skin' isn't greater than sillage. Often "Western noses" may not always be fond of such Oriental works of art, because their understanding of fragrance is different and quite different ingredients are considered "Oriental". Guerlain presents the new collection of fragrances in Colour Collection Flacon Quadrilobé, featuring five fragrances from the exclusive offer. The new collection is a response to the challenge of creating associations and synthesis between certain colors and scents. The iconic Guerlain Quadrilobé bottle was created by Baccarat in 1908 for Jacques Guerlain’s perfume Rue de la Paix. The bottle, which is now produced by Verreries Brosse, is used for private and exclusive collections. The large planters of delicious fruit standing in the shelter and the front of the shady porticoes now exhale their fresh fruity aromas as evening approaches.

The wide French windows of the rooms are wide open; the cooler wind, which has now also arrived, plays with the light curtains; it invites them to dance! The opening is a blast of juicy fruits- pear, apple and the faintest hints of the mandarine orange engulf you. But this is only for a moment as the rose glides in and settles quite wonderfully with the richest sandalwood you could desire. This sandalwood has an incense vibe that becomes pronounced in the dry down, it is a true sandalwood note, oriental in its bearing. It’s my second time owning this. The first time was about 7 years ago, I like it, but it didn’t hold my interest enough. I remember Wisal being very similar to Roses Musk as both are atmospheric kind of hairspray scents that are easily worn and non-offensive. So when I wanted something cheap but long lasting to use ‘n’ abuse for work days, I started thinking about Wisal again. At the time I also got Wisal Dhahab but wasn’t a fan of the sweet pear. I liked how neutral the original silver bottle was. But you’ve got to wonder why things in the past were rejected… Obviously, "Wisal Dhahab" is a fragrance creature with its own ideas about how it wants to develop and with whom.To be fair, I'll start by saying that this is wonderfully built. The accords are very well executed with the woods and the rose standing out, and some flowery notes floating within this incredibly warm composition. Perhaps I chose the wrong month of the year to try this, but I can tell you it is not my cup of tea at all. Not at all. As another reviewer on here pointed out, it's a love it or hate it scent for sure. Before I wrote, I treated myself to a few noses full of fragrance and so it was easy for me to enter this enclosed area of the impressive palace and feel good at the cheerful hustle and bustle in fruity-floral and oriental resinous-woody atmosphere. In the meantime, all the young women have come out of their chambers in their veil-like robes and sumptuously hung with jewellery; like little colourful glittering birds, they chirp and chirp, bringing life to the garden. To this end, I am already comfortably reclining on large soft pillows that are suddenly everywhere. This is not a beast-mode fragrance, you can surround yourself with four sprays, but it is so long lasting that I don't see why you'd need five. This is also a versatile fragrance- any season, any time of day.

So here and there a curtain is already being pushed aside; the voices of the women grow louder and livelier, and the first of them appear in the garden, lightly yet splendidly dressed. Pluto writes that with "Wisal Dhahab" the head notes are completely undercut to her, well, with me they are persistent, as head notes rarely are. And so I can also report almost only from them:

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A small grove of apple and pear trees are also already bearing fruit, some already overripe, playing their part in the fruity concert of scents that impregnates the air and is made so alive by the water features. If this is called a rose/wood combo, then it would not be telling you the full story of whiffs of geranium and jasmine that you can fully experience if spritzed on ones warm skin, or the musky, woody dry down and that faintest bit of cedar that remains on your skin. The patchouli troubles nothing, it is tamed by the musk. The enclosed portion of the seraglio consists not only of the pavilions, loosely strung together, with their richly furnished chambers, but also of large gardens, with a great variety of water-arts, which refresh the air, and at the same time afford beautiful and entertaining diversions. Thus the aromatic and juicy freshness of the fruits, the blossom beauty of the flowers and aromatic-spicy hedges marry with the scents of the spices from the various chambers. I think some of us get to a stage in our fragrance journey when we have tried and tested a lot of fragrances and we eventually feel that it is time to choose a signature scent. I finally found mine and this is it- Ajmal Wisal Dhahab. This is my story connected to this beautiful fragrance.

On the unexpected and potentially negative side, this is not a fragrance that connotates gold to me, which I'm told is the meaning of 'dahab', and certainly the color of this gorgeous bottle. (Gorgeous despite a cheap cap that required E 6000 on arrival, hehe. It's perfect now.) Dahab is somewhat unisex in the mid notes and dry down as well, while I was hoping for something incredibly femme fatale. Also, the fruity top notes (while beautiful!) seem to be missing the ambrosial pear I adore. But while it's not all I might have hoped, there is more to this than meets the eye. I was introduced to Ajmal about five years ago and I immediately fell in love with the brand. My first Ajmal perfume was Faihaa. Although I love Faihaa they stopped producing it and the scent was very much a winter fragrance of florals, oud and safron. I was also adventurous in trying other Ajmal fragrances and so I ventured out and got a bottle of Wisal Dhahab, that was spring of 2016. Everyone was just starting to get into the deep oriental bandwagon at that time and W.D. was for me very special. The woody, ashy, heavy side makes it feel more masculine. But the peach and florals keep it close to unisex. To me, the opening rides the line between a dark, mysterious, and very attractive male, and something my aunts might wear, settling on the former as the freagrance dries down. And when many hours have gone by and you put your nose to your perfumed wrist to take a sniff, you will be greeted with the most beautiful, tame, woody rose that you could wish to inhale.Colour Collection Flacon Quadrilobé perfumes are available in bottles of 125 ml at the price of 650 Euros. They will be sold starting in June 2016 in the Guerlain boutique at Place Vendome. First, I'm surprised that the very first spray the fragrance is not bombed around my ears. This happens to me otherwise with almost all fragrances so, they are in the sequence also still so discreet. No, not here, I have to start right away with my nose over the sprayed skin. It is fruity, I think I recognize the apple. Then, unfortunately, it becomes musty, I wonder if it's the interplay of peach and pear? Then follows for a while something that I can't describe but almost makes me nauseous. I feel reminded of "Amira Gold" by Al Haramain, there is also such a phase for me. Finally, the grapefruit emerges, which accompanies me until the end of the fragrance, it is unfortunately not particularly appreciated by me.... It definitely moves on a fragrance base, but on the one hand it is very weak and on the other hand I can't decipher it. Only now, about 15 hours after the last time I sprayed it on, can I detect a hint of woody base. I have to bring my nose directly to the sprayed skin for this, but there is still so much fragrance that I hesitate to apply a new scent. Santal Royal leads into the world of the mysterious Amber woods with emerald green. The scent contrasts sandalwood, jasmine, rose, leather and oud. So slowly, too, the cooling winds from the distant snow-capped peaks of the mountains are awakening; bringing coolness and thus life.