How does Maison Asrar Rose Honey smell?
Despite the name, the pyramid lists no flower at all, so the character comes from spice, fruit and leaf. Mandarin and plum give a juicy, tart-sweet front, while clove bud adds a warm, dry, faintly medicinal spice. The heart is the distinctive part: tobacco is dry and sweetly leafy, labdanum is a sticky, dark resin, and mate leaf contributes a green, herbal, slightly bitter note that keeps the middle from being purely sweet.
Honey, vanilla and tonka bean make a deeply sweet base: honey is rich and golden, vanilla is creamy, tonka bean is soft and warm. With the clove and tobacco above, the list suggests a warm, syrupy, spiced oriental in a dark, resinous direction, sweet but with enough dry tobacco and clove to stop it from reading as simple dessert, while the labdanum in the heart carries a resinous thread down into the base.
What Maison Asrar's own page says about Rose Honey
Maison Asrar's product page for Rose Honey gives its family as oriental and spicy.
It also puts words of its own on three of the notes: honey (warm, sweet), tobacco (woody, warm, deep) and plum (fruity, lush, sweet).
Who might like Maison Asrar Rose Honey?
For someone who likes spiced sweetness with a tobacco edge, built on honey and vanilla instead of flowers. If that sounds right, the other oriental pages in the range whose lists lean on spice, resin and vanilla are the ones to compare, looking at how each balances sweetness against dryness.
Rose Honey and the rest of the Maison Asrar range
What Rose Honey has in common with Maison Asrar Faris Al Arab: labdanum, vanilla and tonka bean. What it keeps to itself: mandarin, plum, clove bud and tobacco. On the other side stand cashmere wood, liquorous accord, cedarwood and amber.
Maison Asrar Alonoud overlaps in mandarin, labdanum and vanilla. Its own notes are dried fruits, Peru balm, jasmine and leather, against plum, clove bud, tobacco and mate leaf here.
Maison Asrar Muharib overlaps in tobacco, honey and tonka bean. Its own notes are lemon, bergamot, lavandin and cashmere, against mandarin, plum, clove bud and labdanum here.
Where to buy Maison Asrar Rose Honey in Europe
Maison Asrar Rose Honey 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 Faris Al Arab shares labdanum, vanilla and tonka bean with it and Maison Asrar Muharib shares tobacco, honey and tonka bean with it.
Shop Maison Asrar at FragranceGemsOpens the Maison Asrar page of FragranceGems.
Looking for something particular? Tell FragranceGems which scent you want.
Illustration
