How does Maison Asrar Timeless smell?
The top is all about brightness. Italian bergamot and green lemon give a sharp, zesty front, and elemi (a fresh, lightly spicy tree resin) adds a woody-spicy edge that helps explain the Spicy family word. The heart is green and a little tart: blackcurrant is fruity and faintly sulphurous, rosemary is a camphor-like herb, and green apple is crisp and sour. Together they push the citrus toward a juicy, herbal, fruit-skin direction rather than a sweet one.
Only two base entries are listed. Patchouli is earthy, dark and slightly damp, and it is the likeliest source of the Woody family word. Ambergris scented is an odd phrase: it usually means a note built to evoke ambergris, a smooth, salty, faintly marine-sweet quality, rather than the natural material itself. Between them they give the citrus and herbs something dry and earthy to rest on. The list suggests a green, tangy, dry-woody fragrance with a mild mineral smoothness at the end.
What Maison Asrar's own page says about Timeless
Maison Asrar's product page for Timeless gives its family as woody, citrus and spicy.
It also puts words of its own on three of the notes: patchouli (earthy, woody, warm), blackcurrant (fruity, deep, projecting) and bergamot (citrus, fresh, elegant).
Who might like Maison Asrar Timeless?
Someone who likes citrus sharp and green rather than sweet, with herb and sour fruit in the middle and a dry patchouli floor. The mix of blackcurrant, rosemary and green apple is what sets this list apart from a plain citrus-and-wood layout. For comparison, look in the Maison Asrar range for other note lists that put bergamot or lemon over herbs and fruit and finish on patchouli or an ambergris-style base.
Timeless and the rest of the Maison Asrar range
Maison Asrar Cascade overlaps in green lemon, green apple and patchouli. Its own notes are ginger, melon, lavender and sandalwood, against Italian bergamot, elemi, blackcurrant and rosemary here.
What Timeless has in common with Maison Asrar Petra: Italian bergamot, blackcurrant and patchouli. What it keeps to itself: green lemon, elemi, rosemary and green apple. On the other side stand pinkpepper, leather, insense and labdanum.
The link with Maison Asrar Rubellite is blackcurrant, ambergris scented and patchouli. Timeless sets Italian bergamot, green lemon, elemi and rosemary beside that, the other one plum, blackberry, saffron and leather.
Where to buy Maison Asrar Timeless in Europe
Maison Asrar Timeless 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 Hunter shares Italian bergamot, green lemon and elemi with it and Maison Asrar Belgravia shares Italian bergamot, green lemon and blackcurrant with it.
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