How does Maison Asrar Aseel smell?
Crisp and aromatic, the top leans on cardamom and pink pepper for dry spice, lemon for sharpness, juniper berry for a resinous green bite, tea for a light, slightly tannic dryness and incense for a thin ribbon of smoke. Orris sits in the heart, a cool, powdery, slightly earthy root note, with rose, jasmine and lily of the valley gathered around it, so the middle reads as a powdery bouquet rather than a sweet one.
Oud, tonka, ambergris, cashmere, patchouli and musk fill the base. Oud adds a dark, faintly medicinal woodiness, tonka a soft, sweet-dry warmth, ambergris a salty, skin-like glow, and cashmere and musk smooth everything into a plush texture. Fougere traditionally means a fresh, herbal, aromatic structure, so here it most likely describes the clean, herbal feel of the top set against that dark base.
What Maison Asrar's own page says about Aseel
Maison Asrar's product page for Aseel gives its family as fougere and ambery.
It also puts words of its own on three of the notes: cardamom (spicy, warm, elegant), rose (floral, elegant, romantic) and oud (woody, deep, luxurious).
Who might like Maison Asrar Aseel?
Someone who enjoys a tea-and-spice opening, a powdery orris heart and an oud base that feels refined rather than rough could find this list worth reading. For comparison, look through the rest of the Maison Asrar range for lists that also pair cardamom or pink pepper with oud and musk, and notice how much powder, if any, each one adds.
Aseel and the rest of the Maison Asrar range
Both list orris, rose, jasmine, musk, tonka, ambergris and patchouli. Maison Asrar Majesty goes on with grapefruit, ginger, bergamot and vetiver; Aseel with cardamom, lemon, incense and pink pepper.
Both list cardamom, pink pepper, tonka, cashmere, ambergris and patchouli. Maison Asrar Larimar goes on with nutmeg, grapefruit, lavender and leather; Aseel with lemon, incense, tea and juniper berry.
Maison Asrar Ameer and Aseel meet in cardamom, pink pepper, lily of the valley, rose, musk and patchouli. After that the first lists Italian bergamot, saffron, pink grapefruit and atlas cedarwood, the second lemon, incense, tea and juniper berry.
Where to buy Maison Asrar Aseel in Europe
Maison Asrar Aseel is not in the FragranceGems range at the moment; the shop's Maison Asrar page shows what is available. Among the scents the shop sells, Maison Asrar Majesty shares orris, rose and jasmine with it and Maison Asrar Ameer shares cardamom, pink pepper and lily of the valley with it.
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