How does Maison Asrar Patchouli with Love smell?
Citrus comes first: bergamot and orange give the front a juicy, bitter-sweet lift, while cypriol, the root of a sedge grass, adds an earthy, damp, faintly smoky edge that keeps the top from being a simple cologne. The heart turns powdery and dry: violet and orris (iris root) bring a soft, cosmetic powder, saffron contributes a dry, slightly leathery spice, and patchouli supplies the leafy, earthy centre the name promises.
Incense, cedarwood and ambrette sit underneath. Incense is a dry, resinous smokiness, cedarwood is clean, pencil-shaving dry timber, and ambrette is a seed with a soft, skin-like, faintly sweet and powdery character. The list suggests an airy, dry woodiness with a resinous finish rather than anything sugary, and the brand's word fresh most likely comes from the citrus and the clean cedar rather than from any watery note.
What Maison Asrar's own page says about Patchouli with Love
Maison Asrar's product page for Patchouli with Love gives its family as woody and fresh.
It also puts words of its own on three of the notes: incense (smoky, warm, atmospheric), patchouli (earthy, woody, warm) and bergamot (citrus, fresh, elegant).
Who might like Maison Asrar Patchouli with Love?
Suited to anyone who likes patchouli treated as one part of a dry, powdery, woody picture instead of a sweet or heavy centrepiece. If orris powder, a thread of smoke and bright citrus at the front sound appealing, this is a list to read closely. Elsewhere in the range, pages built on patchouli, incense or cedarwood make the natural comparison, note by note.
Patchouli with Love and the rest of the Maison Asrar range
What Patchouli with Love has in common with Maison Asrar Fairyland: cypriol, bergamot, patchouli and cedarwood. What it keeps to itself: orange, violet, saffron and orris. On the other side stand mandarin, cinnamon, geranium and rose.
The link with Maison Asrar Hilm is orange, patchouli, orris and cedarwood. Patchouli with Love sets cypriol, bergamot, violet and saffron beside that, the other one mandarin, mango, chamomile and jasmine.
What Patchouli with Love has in common with Maison Asrar Nada: bergamot, patchouli and cedarwood. What it keeps to itself: cypriol, orange, violet and saffron. On the other side stand mandarin, mango, orange blossom and musk.
Where to buy Maison Asrar Patchouli with Love in Europe
Maison Asrar Patchouli with Love 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 Ameer shares bergamot, patchouli and saffron with it and Maison Asrar Regent shares bergamot, patchouli and orris with it.
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