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Ingeryred – :
I don’t know how I feel about this one, I’m confused.
First, the box is original, wooden flexible leaf turnes around the bottle, with elastic strip finished with a boutton.
For now, my impression after 2 tries -by 2 sprays each-, it’s just a burning wood with honey spread above.
The Tobacco in it is like Tobacco of narguile (hookah or chicha for others) mixed with honey and then smoked (burned). The dry down became more pleasent, but somehow stays a fire place / Tobacco scent.
One of the most strange perfumes that I came across. For sure it’s not an office or crowded places scent, maybe fits week-end nights in a chalet with friends.
I believe it should be layred with another smooth or fresh note to be acceptable.
I’m still wondering if I could wear it or not.
via842bedyWelty – :
I get incense smoke powdery vibe, imagine if you have been beside wood fire place through som incense in itfor sometimes and that’s how your cloths smells like next day, smoky incensy, not very sweet, I don’t get Tom Ford TV vibe at all!
faramir9000 – :
I dont know if this is same as vanilla tobacco by tom ford, what i know is this js one of the best long lasting fragrances i have ever bought and the price is just unbeatable.
EDIT : I tested the tobacco vanilla today in dubai mall and i dont see both perfumes are similar, for me nashwa was the bettef fragrance and i could not justify the 1400 AED between both perfumes, Tom Ford has strong vanilla scent which reminds me of icecream, felt a little feminine, however both of them has strong start with tobacco scent.
dimok20010 – :
Absolutely amazing! Incense and woods, with a deep honey. Incredible quality for the cost. Perfect for cooler weather, and very comforting. On my skin the drydown is similar to Back to Black! Wowzy!
TucheReutRifemvszt – :
The burning altar with offerings to the gods, as Inguz described, is how you can imagine this scent. But you have to wait for it, because for three to four hours it is sidelined by honey/amber/vanilla sweetness. You can smell the burning aroma from the start, but it is blended a lot with the sweetness.
I really like the drydown, but I am not sure if I would want to smell like that. In combination in the first phase, I would say that this is very interesting long lasting and powerful fragrance, but practically unwearable. Maybe just outside.
knopa84 – :
I’m a big fan of Rasasi and Middle Eastern fragrances in general.
I own and appreciate Tasmeem, Faquat Lil Rijal, Yazan, Al Wisam Day and Evening, Hawas, Zebra, Al Yuqawam (Tobacco Blaze, Ambergris Showers too) Rasha, Daarej, Entebaa, Shuhrah and countless Al Haramain and Al rehabs as well as others.
However, I’m really disappointed with Dhanal Oudh Nashwah.
It’s nice. It’s pleasant but all it really is can be covered by a can of Lynx Oud and Dark Vanilla.
The Lynx cost me £6.
The Rasasi cost me over 30.
The Lynx is slightly sweeter, perhaps a block of Dairy Milk chocolate instead of dark chocolate but that’s really about it in terms of fragrance and all measures of performance.
Revision 25th March 2018
I’ve been giving this a good go. Trying it in various situations.
Although the thrust of my initial thoughts above are still mainly true I do feel that I was being somewhat harsh.
In truth it’s obvious that this fragrance did not wow me when I had expectations of being wowed.
That wasn’t fair to it.
After really giving it a proper try out numerous times I’m inclined now to appreciate the quality more than I previously was. I guess this happens a lot when someone starts out.
The weather is also a fair bit warmer than my first experiences with this Rasasi and that is reflected in the improved performance that I’m getting from it now.
I’m picking up more smoke and it’s a wonderful note. Not like something cheap burning but a good log fire.
It’s darker and deeper than I first regarded it.
Glad I stuck with it because now I get it in a way that I was perhaps too ignorant too not so long ago.
bumer-83 – :
Beautiful honey tobacco oud with a brutal opening. Love this for the opening, drydown, everything. Smells rich and exotic, like it’s not even labeled in English. Oh, wait, it’s not labeled in English!
Nashwah comes in the most exquisite cylindrical wooden box. Strange no one else has mentioned the box. If you like dark sweet woody ouds, give it a try. As someone said below, it’s Tobacco Vanille without the sweetness, like the dark chocolate version of TV.
kgy844intitytek – :
What a wonderful Oud – I’ve been looking for exactly this one for as long as I wanted An Oud scent and here it is – this is what I’ve Allways wanted an Oud should be. The honey and nutmeg blends so well together that I hardly can’t smell the one from the other. It’s heavy and a tiny bit skanky at the first spray but settles down within 30 sec to a tobacco, oud, leather accord and hold this the next many hours. It gets a bit sweeter and more pleasurable but not a super sweet Just balanced. It seems very well blended and I’m surprised that they have been able to pull this off at this price.
It’s up there with the best of Niche Ouds it’s packaging is top notch and super stylish all the way. And yes it has some resemblance to TF TV but for a whole other price tag.
I will recommend this to anyone that is into ouds – I will try the other two in the line.
Though there’s rose in I believe in one of them (I don’t like rose).
Dahn al Oudh Nashwah has convinced me that I will have to try the other offerings.
Presentation is a 10/10
Projection & longevity is a 10/10
The scent to me is 10/10
A scent I will get back to for sure – Great work Rasasi 🙂
skempil – :
Deliciousness, gourmand-ish coffee and oud gem. I am an adept of oud, but it must be on the diet side for me to manage it. Nashwah fits 100% my oud requirements. It is unisex for sure. Projection and longevity are acceptable for the price point.
okc604elipseskism – :
There’s a temple deep in a cave in the desert. Miles must be traveled through scrub and sand to get there. In this temple, there’s a dark wood altar to a pagan god. Offerings of cinnamon, honey, and incense are preferred for the invocations. Shelves full of ancient tomes line the walls lending the dusky air notes of parchment and leather.
Long lasting, strong projection, delicious.
domino1977 – :
It´s very komplex and interesting perfume. It smell more expensive than it is.
Imagine old box from juniper wood, which is decorated by smooth thin leather outside. In the box you can find wet, fresh, dark, sweet cavendish tabacco to pipe (because honey). I´s not primary sweet fragnance, fortunately. Just rich tabbaco with deep woods, pinch of refreshing nutmeg and leather.
Excelent autumn scent for elegant, confident woman (I imagined Marlen Dietrich). It have great longevity and good projection.
PhoenixWhite – :
Beautiful fragrance especially for the $$. The pyramid is a bit misleading because oud is found at all three levels (top, heart, base)and the heart notes contain strawflower and not strawberry leaf. Nashwah opens with an all encompassing honey and a rich full oud. Within 30 minutes the honey begins to transpose into a sweet leather/oud frag. I get well over 8 hours of longevity with a good 3 hours of arm length projection.This is another highly recommended fragrance from the house of Rasasi!
it-hacker – :
I got it today. It smells good, but I would prefer a little bit more oud and a little less honey.
Otherwise, a very nice and strong scent. Beware of the honey, it is a kind of prominent here.
EDIT: After a couple of days using it, I like it very much. It’s a great blend. Well done.
roms77777 – :
Its a pretty good fragrence, esp at this price point. I agree with some of what others have said, its mos def in the realm of TV. Not as hot as TV because your replacing the T & the V with Oud, and honey. Its also not quite as sweet as TV, but close.
Its a honey bomb though for sure, so be aware of that. The Oud is not all that discernible, other than giving the deep and dark backbone to the fragrance. It is there though, and I do not find it skanky at all. Well blended scent. What I get is Honey, Oud, Nutmeg, and Amber.
It has amazingly strong sillage, I was overwhelmed by the honey when I first tried it this morning, and washed off with some of my Sandalwood & Oatmeal soap. Rubbed the bar of soap over the area I sprayed, and was still getting wafts of it that I found myself enjoying. I was going to try to sell it before that experience, but now its a keep, and a like. May become a love at some point.
Update: Layered it with TV one spray of each, and yea…its pretty damn nice. Definitely going to be doing that again on a cold rainy day, or in the winter.
Do not be suspicious of the price. it does not smell like a synthetic or plasticy alcohol blast, and I have smelled some of the other cheap Arabians that definitely fall into that category recently.
So yea, maybe save yourself some $$, and get a bottle of this, and a 10ml decant of TV. You will be set. 😉
@Tiger84, I get not leather at all, but this is my impression from the first day, and first couple of sprays.
Alenq7a – :
Got to try this! Sounds amazing. How strong is the leather?
bardosik – :
I feel like there will be a lot of talk about this one when it’ll get more popular. I think Rasasi becomes a really top shelf brand with every release. The scent: (i’ll try to sound as little pretentious as i can) The smell of oud is overwhelming – it’s animalic and thick, definitely the most prominent note throughout every phase. It’s not like those European fragrances trying to smell exotic and oriental, while using oud carefully so you can only get traces of it – that smoothness that oud brings, but you can’t sense the smell of oud itself. Here you can actually smell it. So if you’re like me – used to smelling nice clean shit like lalique white or aqua amara – you will probably either perish instantly or – get through that challenge. Which I recommend, because the smell is really worth it. Among oud there’s mainly tobacco and honey. Tobacco note is really realistic and smell like wet pipe tobacco. Honey is there, but it’s not really that sweet. I don’t know if anyone has the same feeling but i really think that the sweetness doesn’t come from honey but from oud itself. People say that it resembles a Tom Ford fragrance – can’t admit, i simply don’t know it yet, but it does have sense looking at the notes. That’s basically it. Ingredients are of top quality as it is usually the case with Rasasi, but try it before you buy it. Or just buy it, it’s dirt cheap.
ztb919Negeltzex – :
This fragrance is so good. At first spray it is very creamy sweet, woody, maybe a little bit tobacco. How I did imagine it. But after a while on my skin it smells more masculine…. It is funny, but It reminds me of my father´s office when I smell this scent:D
Karandal – :
Not a restrained scent. Spritzed on, and the strong Honey and Oud combo almost leads to that perceived ‘skankiness’, almost smelling animalic somewhat, but then the drydown happens, and the leather is there with some of a tobacco accord floating in the back. I do get the Tobacco Vanille comparison, siblings in the same family. NOT a blind buy, but a gorgeous scent nonetheless!
solfLilsspick – :
Reminds me SL Fumerie Turque – just not so sweet.
puncheg – :
OMG, this perfume is so heavy and brutal at first. When I sprayed I didn’t like (the top), it’s strange and weird, bitter-medicinal, the honey kicks immediately with the nutmeg, I think the drydown is more likeable, more smokey. Smells like Indian shop and spice market, full of incense and spices. If I dig my nose to my skin I can feel the oud too.This juice is very special experience to my nose. It’s very balanced in terms of sweetness, it contains minimal dose, rather more natural incense/spicy. I recommend for the experimenters:D
DjonVein – :
Lavin Avante Garde with authentic oud. Sometimes it is naturally, organically, honey sweet with some smokey vibe to it. Not an incense smoke though. It is reminiscent of fresh unsmoked pipe tobacco. For the”skankiness”, sometimes you get a smell of peat moss type of vibe (in a good way) with honey. It is deep and kind of dark type of fragrance. If you love wood, tobacco, and honey type of fragrances, this is your pick. Performance and longevity is EXCELLENT. You will smell it all day with 2 sprays. You can go three, but no more. It stays, and comes back with vengeance– beast. It is a phenomenal buy at this price. I am very tempted to buy another from this line. Matter of fact, I know I will….
Ivanchik21 – :
Smells like Tobacco Vanille without the sweetness.
invownKew – :
Super Oud heavy. Can smell the sweetness from the honey. Super heavy and long lasting Not something I would wear. I would reach for Lalique Encre Noire if i wanted to smell like a tree. Beautiful scent but not for me. Would be awesome as a candle scent kind of thing.