{"product_id":"gulab-oud-11g-tola-attar","title":"Gulab Oud 11g Tola Attar","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSandal Gulab Oud begins with the unmistakable smell of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003enatural rose lush, deep and alive\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Not the sweet, polished rose of modern perfumery, but something closer to holding freshly gathered rose petals in your hands: dewy at first, gently spicy, slightly honeyed and with that beautiful green darkness found in real rose.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eVery quickly, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esandalwood begins to wrap around the rose\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. It brings a creamy, buttery softness that takes away any sharpness without making the composition overly sweet. The effect is almost tactile \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ered rose petals crushed into warm, creamy sandalwood\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThen comes the oud.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt doesn’t immediately dominate. It rises slowly from beneath the sandalwood with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eold wood, damp earth, soft leather and a distinctly barny Hindi character\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. That little animalic roughness is important it prevents the rose and sandalwood from becoming too pretty or too smooth. There is something ancient and slightly untamed underneath all that beauty.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs it develops on warm skin, the three materials begin to merge. The rose becomes darker and more velvety, the sandalwood warmer and almost milky, while the oud loses some of its initial barniness and turns \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003edeep, woody, resinous and quietly smoky\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe drydown is perhaps the most beautiful part: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecreamy sandalwood stained with rose, resting over the lingering warmth of aged oud.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Occasionally the rose resurfaces; then you catch sandalwood then a little earthy oud. It keeps moving rather than smelling linear.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSandal Gulab Oud is not simply rose with oud. It smells like an old Indian attar tradition rose, sandalwood and aged oud slowly melting into one another on skin. Rich, intimate, slightly animalic and deeply comforting.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zakir Gafur","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50582812229882,"sku":null,"price":225.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0669\/1084\/7226\/files\/IMG-2884.png?v=1790328851","url":"https:\/\/gafur.ae\/products\/gulab-oud-11g-tola-attar","provider":"Zakir Gafur","version":"1.0","type":"link"}