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aahilles – :
I would love to have this for winter.
ruslanh25 – :
I just received this directly from Oman, and i am not sure how to feel about it. I own Extravagant and Romantic from the same line, and as i do understand that Palais is made for middle eastern market, i am still a bit disappointed. Before purchasing, looking at the notes, i suspected it could smell a bit like Miroir des Voluptes by Mugler, and i wasn’t wrong.
I can’t wear des Voluptes. It always ends up wearing me, and i feel very insignificant and small when i put it on. It’s amazing, oudy rose, also made for middle eastern market, with enormous silage and longevity, but very masculine as well.
Palais goes along the same vein. Just a tad sweeter and more opulent when first sprayed on, turning into oudy rose, so characteristic to all middle eastern fragrances. But, it’s far more wearable and feminine than MdV, so for those chilly days, it will do. Happy to have it, but Folklory is still my favorite Arabic perfume.
stepan222 – :
I knew I wanted this when it first appeared on Fragrantica. I looked at the notes and the bottle and I imagined what it would smell like. Usually this doesn’t work because I imagine something then when I smell it it’s something completely different. But when I smelled Essence des Palais at Doha airport, it was exactly what I imagined! It’s smokey, it’s resinous, it’s sweet, but not too sweet, it’s dark, but very wearable. I bought my bottle immediately.
31031983 – :
A very warm Middle Eastern/Arabic smell with intensive incense. Could be easily unisex as it is woody & strong. Think Gucci Guilty Absolute woodiness.
Reminds me a lot of a perfume called Velvet by Scent Maker, a Kuwaiti perfume brand.
Big like!
matvey123 – :
Oh hello, yes this is sexy. I sprayed it for the first time and my husband said it smelled really good. He said it smelled woody. First spray is a huge wave of spicy roses and it dries down to a leathery oud, though oud isn’t supposed to be here. It’s unisex and on a woman a bit provocative and mysterious.
alzo – :
One of the best oud scents I have ever come across (and I have tried quite a few). This wonderful perfume offers powdery oud, satin-light leather and spices dancing in a merrygoround. It is a headturner but not something that will choke you.
I bought this blind and am very happy with this scent.
dranitsaris – :
Interesting.
A very dark scent, the cedar is very strong, pine needled like.
Sweetness takes a while to warm through, brought by the incense and musky rose.
A mature grown up perfume, dark and haunting.
This is a relationship that needs a while to develop.
update: the opening reminds me off LALIQUE EXTREME, a men’s fragrance., very burning forest/resin but it really does mellow out to a warm deeply sweet slightly musky scent.
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gets sweeter towards the end.
calal – :
the colour black looks so attractive, we have very few perfumes in black bottles. smell wise the scent has some similarity to tom ford perfumes. not bad at all but I still love Givenchy bois de oud among this collection.