Description
Dahab is part of Volume 1 of the SCENT STORIES Collection which debuted in 2014. Volume 1 consists of 11 fragrances to be released on a members-only basis for the first year. The fragrances’ notes and concepts are reserved for members only. The fragrances are planned for release to the general public in a year, when Volume 2 of the collection is released.
“Olfaction is the sense that’s hardwired to your brain. A direct, subconscious passage to memory and emotions, a memorable smell is rarely forgotten. In SCENT STORIES, each perfume is a potion and an abstract work of art. We invite each guest to spend time with each aroma. Engage, reflect, project, and allow each to transcend your moment. Like a good book, we hope each chapter takes you somewhere captivating. An exchange in the creation, alchemy is achieved in this dialogue and we hope that you find the stories interesting. The collection is rare, exclusive, and made from only a single batch of the best ingredients in the world. We encourage true connoisseurs to collect their favorite chapters.”—Chad Murawczyk and Mindy Yang of MiN New York
Yvaarh – :
This is a strong masculine scent builded around the note of smoke with heavy myrrh and a sub-sweet vibe that becomes stronger as time passes. This is not a safe scent and you won’t walk through people unnoticed.
Heavy & strong smoke is what you get from the first spray. It’s on your face type of scent. The smell of smoke lives till the end becoming slightly sweet as time passes. I don’t get incense not even traces. But I get heavy smoky myrrh mixed with a shortlived note of melted plastic, benzoin, good quality cumin, nutmeg, amber and weak saffron. At the final part when it dies I get a much toned down but still dominant smoke with sub-sweet amber/benzoin.
There is no oud, there’s no sea note but only tiny traces that you can feel them only after seeing the note pyramide.
The longevity is nice 8-9 hours. The sillage and the projection are huge at the opening. My friend couldn’t breathe near me, strong stuff. But as time passes it becomes moderate. After 3,5-4 hours it stays close to the skin.
Overal is a quality scent, well blended but it’s not for all. I like the concept, I like the note combo but it’s not for me. Good stuff here, try if you like smoke.
Gordon11 – :
رائحة الرنجة بالليمون
dmitriy74 – :
THIS IS MY FIRST MIN NEW YORK SCENT AND I HATE TO ADMIT IT, BUT I WEAR FRAGRANCE FOR THE LADIES- AND THIS ONE IS A REAL PANTY DROPPER. HONESTLY I HOPE THIS DOESN’T OFFEND ANYONE OUT THERE, BUT I’M JUST SAYIN, WHEN I WEAR THIS…. EVERYTHING WORKS OUT. I’M AN INVESTMENT BANKER BUT I DO LIKE TO HAVE MY FUN. SO MAYBE I’M JUST A CLOSET FRAG HEAD 😉
podgas lampatti – :
There is a market here in Kuwait called Souq Sharq, named after the desert wind that blows from the East (Chergui, pronounced Sharqi, is named after it). The air around the souq is redolent of spices and incense – shopkeepers burn incense in doorways. The market sits right by the sea and on emerging from the souq, with the scent of incense wafting around, you are hit with the rich, briny, ozonic scent of the sea. Dahab is on the money.
africa92 – :
Man. I love the shit out of this scent. It’s beautiful. I grew up next to the ocean. And this is the fizziest, sparkly, most enlivening rendition of fresh ocean air that I’ve ever experienced. It’s cooling and refreshing and jarringly real. Totally transportative. That fresh fizzy ocean breeze comes smashing off the top and then pops up mysteriously as with a change of the winds in the dry down. As it starts to dry down it feels like we’ve moved our spice enthralled campfire further inland out of the cold sea air. We must be in North Africa somehwere. I don’t know how I know this. Because I’ve never been there. But man, this scent transported me somewhere. And I was there, man. (haha). @queerderussie really nailed the effect describing it as tendrils or mini tornadoes of scent that pass and go away and come back again whimsically. But cold ocean air in the scent moves brilliantly in an out of a spicy gourmandish ensemble of warming, mouth watering, celebratory feast. Like we’ve been surfing all day in the cold ocean and we’re eating a bunch of amazing indian/arabian deserts after getting stoned next to our camp fire.
It’s just. Amazing. I feel alive, free, creative, and engaging with this scent on.
I’m definitely getting a bottle of this. This is one of those niche scents that is worth the price tag. I wish it was cheaper because I’d wear it all the time. But it’s still worth it, because there’s nothing like it. And it’s totally amazing. I’ve decided I’ll always have this in my collection. I hope they always make it. At some point I’ll stock up on it when they have a holiday sale for their members.
This is also an amazing store. The coolest place to shop for scents ever. It’s like a private club. And the sales people are experts. If you’re in New York, you gotta stop by this place. Super cool people. I’ve seen the owners interviewed on youtube and they were just as cool in person. They remind me of Andy Tauer’s vibe in terms of how they properly engage their audience–just chill, down to earth, creative, and artistic people.
Smartstudent – :
Tried recently and could only muster one word to describe it: Derivative.
It seemed to have tried to evoke Tauer’s L’Air du Desert Marocain, but it never quite makes it to that level and fell apart rather quickly for me. Between spice, incense, oud, sea notes, and the other elements, the melange of it became less a Marrakesh market experience and more a quest to decide what it really wanted to be. @Arabian Knight was fairly apt in his analogy.
Since I had the opportunity to review this while in Paris recently, it was an overpriced value proposition for that market based on the composition and inspiration. Missed the mark for me.
rkj218Diobtetty – :
From the MiN website:
DAHAB means “time goes”, where the desert meets the sea and stars…
Oud burns in the distance, mingled with warm spicy air…
A smooth nargileh (hookah)…
Young men dive under the stars into the desert night.
Adventurous, fearless spiritual explorers.
Energetic, exotic, nomadic.
Seekers of life and truth.
Wild & free.
Salty aquatic notes mingled with oud, incense, exotic dry woods and spices from the market nearby.
Top: Galbanum, Cinnamon, Saffron, Lime, Nutmeg
Heart: Frankincense, Benzoin, Cypress, Geranium
Base: Cedarwood, Musk, Amber, Oud (Agarwood)
tesuserdrfv – :
A smoky, saffrony (w)oudy thing which feels pretty interesting during the initial couple of hours to then lose much of its edge falling into a meh-woody base. There are potentially interesting aspects about Dahab but they don’t feel implemented enough to keep the wearer’s interest alive for much.
Just like most other MiNs, massively overpriced. For your smoky-woods treat, stick to Bois D’Ascese.
Rating: 6/10
valerun – :
Immediately as i read this perfume’s name without kwnowing anything else from it i expected: 1)An arab scent and 2)An oud creation. And seing the notes and descriptions on the store website, i saw that it really has those 2 links. But wearing Dahab and expecting an oud araba creation gave me the same estrangement i had when i watched August: Osage County with Meryl Strip and discovered it was classified as a comedy (which is the last thing the film is): the result is interesting but you end with the sensation that there is something disconnected between the final product and it’s proper promotion. But the scent does have, as they promote, a desert air on its smell since the beginning, an aroma tha opens very dry, sultry nad pugent smell on skin.I feel like they have made a base of ambar only of labdanum, without any vanilla or benjoin to give it a sweet touch. Mixed with this there is something citrus and bitter going along also with an airless herbal impression. I then notice the spices in a progressive way, from a dry and slightly animalic pepper and cumin impresssion to a delicate and slightly sweet saffron touch.Sometimes i have the sensation that i’m also noticing a distant vanilla note just like a mirage in the middle of the desert. There is something fascinating and oppressor in a desert and this is the same impression that Dahab gaves me. It depends on its viewer preferences/tolerances.
slaukolich – :
This is a fantastic fragrance. Dare I say masterpiece. The spice, cumin, incense, and Oud make this a dark fragrance but there’s this fresh aquatic expression to this composition, which I may say is brilliant. Everything is blended beautifully. One of my best purchases of 2014.
zarun133 – :
Actually now that I’m wearing it 2 hours in i get histories amrarem mixed with farenheit that’s exactly what it smells like 8/10
9139873544 – :
This has a pure malt/petroleum smell to it. Almost like thick tar meets heavy leather and they had a child
I love it
clever65 – :
This is less bustling Moroccan spice market and more like a dark, stuffy motel room suffused with cigarette smoke.
The pepper, nutmeg and cumin give the arid texture of worn musty carpet. A leathery saffron and medicinal tinges of oud mimic some cheap varnished furniture, while the incense permeates like a thick cloud of ash and mold. It’s dull, dark and depressing.
D.I.M.A. – :
This is fantastic stuff…to me it has a L`Air du Desert Marocain feel to it…full bottle worthy for sure.
*****/5
So warming and inviting…truly 1 of my favs for 2014…if not my fav.
Lede – :
Dahab is a former Bedouin fishing village on the southeast coast of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula that’s a popular tourist destination, especially for diving. The name translates to “gold,” yet the synesthetic impression of the perfume is more of a coppery silk. It’s a phenolic, quasi-exotic scent in which smoked woods and spices are cast as the main players with emphasis on the spice—specifically nutmeg. There’s a slight culinary twist, and a hint of Black Agar-style sweetness, but those facets are suppressed beneath what is essentially an olfactory portrait of a bustling spice market. Warm, balanced, yet restrained, a leathery saffron pairs with the nutmeg to produce bustling dynamics. As the scent settles, it becomes a tad simple with the spices burning off to reveal a circumspect cedar, but it’s comfortable all the same.