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rirurvisomi – :
I envy Stoicov’s experience with this being “powerful”. I find it to be exceptionally soft and short lived for an oil. On one hand, I enjoy its softness because I think it makes it an excellent, elegant office scent. But, if this was stronger, it would be great for evening. It’s worth noting that I’m not at all the sort to love big, loud perfumes. So, keep my experience in that light: maybe we got different batches?
I would say this is a good starter oud and a safe blind buy. The oud note fits perfectly with the incense, spices, and rose, all rounded with amber. I would actually say that I primarily get amber, then spices, then even tie on taif rose, oud, and incense.
Unisex.
s.v.4 – :
This is a powerhouse. I could smell it as soon I opened the parcel that arrived, along with other 2 Al-rehab oils. This overpowers them all.
At first applying on my skin it’s an amazing feminine oud. Then it developed in a very sensual scent. A tiny oil drop and I am in a glamorous cloud.
I would wear it on special occasions, long dress, heels, hair up.
I keep sniffing it and realise this would probably please vintage lovers.
This has some sort of old-lady vibe and keep going strong…
Maybe I should try wearing it on my scarf, not on my skin.
It lasts forever.
Alexander88 – :
My Sultana is, in all likelihood, a very gentle thing compared with the full blown concentrated perfume oil. So far she is most widely available in the west in air freshener and ‘cream’ form, which is a wee tub of scented vaseline. I am a happy owner of the latter. 🙂
Perfumed creams tend to be lighter in scent than their CPO counterparts. Some people even find them too light, depending on their tastes and the particular personality of the scent. For this reason, I think they are an IDEAL choice for the beginner to ouds and attars. You can test an Arabian without being overwhelmed, gradually developing an appreciation that goes far beyond fragrance ‘decibel’ levels. 😉 The creams are also quite hard to over apply, not the case in my personal experience with oils, which tend to have a life of their own!
As for Sultana:
In this iteration of the scent I do not perceive much incense or powerful spices, etc. I’m mostly enjoying an almost Addictive blend of perfection. Really, truly divine! Feminine but not cloying, floral but well grounded and classic. The oud is gentle, supporting a sandalwood/floral structure of real elegance. A little powdery and moderately sweet, I am smelling primarily:
Jasmine!
Sandalwood,
Honey (probably the amber)
& Musk
with a bit of:
Oud
Rose (not the sharp variety),
& hints of incense and patch in the base notes…
Think of a sweet jasmine scent and add soft, pillowy musk and generous sandalwood, with edges of other notes rounding it out. She’s as luxurious and pleasing an Arabian as you could well wish to test. But I also think she would be an excellent choice for those branching out from Florientals into the world of Arabians…. In cream form, that is!
As for me, I am developing an unexpected fondness for this – initially pleasing, now addictive – scent. The cream is rapidly vanishing as I plan my next Sultana purchase!
Truly worth smelling – FIVE Stars <3
zaserja – :
Hi I live in the Uk, where can I purchase this beauty. I’m sorry its not a review. However, I promise to do one, as soon as I can get hold of one. Thanks.
muler42 – :
Sultana The Sultan Is On His Knees For His Queen
Fragrance Review For Sultana by Al-Rehab
Head Notes Citrus
Heart Notes Jasmine Taif Rose Spices
Base Notes Sandalwood Patchouli Incense Musk Amber Agarwood Oud
For me as a New Yorker born and bred Saudi Arabia, pardon me, the United Arab Emirates, and the exotic and glamorous city of Dubai always seemed like an adventure waiting to happen. I’ve been to India and Hong Kong as far as Oriental destinations but this year I’m heading to the UAE because they are harboring a huge secret that all Fragranticans should know: they have such unbelievably fantastic fragrances! I have a contact in Dubai, a perfumer, that has sent me perfume attars and I have been wanting to go to Saudi Arabia to check out the perfume stores for myself. Sultana was my first introduction to Al-Rehab an authentic Arabic Oriental perfume. This is the loveliest oud and taif rose combination I have ever encountered. This is the real thing people. It’s an Oriental perfume of the purest kind. I was afraid it would smell too grotesquely musky or too woodsy and while there is enough oud to satisfy oud lovers, it’s well rounded with scents of Taif rose, citrus notes, jasmine, patchouli and amber. There’s also noticeable sandalwood. Every element that makes up an Oriental is on here: Jasmine flower? Check. Patchouli? Check. Sandalwood? Check. Incense? Check. This is more an incense really but it’s a gorgeous perfumy incense. It’s easily unisex but that being said it’s still very feminine on me. It does not turn into a guy’s cologne but guys will totally enjoy the manly cologne ingredients that are on here namely the opening of citrus, the aromatic patchouli, and the musk. This is a strong fragrance so it’s really not appropriate as an eau de parfum spray. They have this available as a spray and as a diffuser/air freshner but it’s way too strong an incense for one house. I don’t like my home to smell of incense and oud. I prefer floral fragrances at my home but I can see this as being very beautiful as aroma therapy for a religious household: Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu. It smells very religious to me. It has an incense that evokes a mosque. But it’s also sweet and sensual with the jasmine and rose pairing. When I smell this fragrance it takes me to Arabia. It smells very modern but at the same time ancient. It’s straight out of the Arabian Nights. This is a fragrance for Scheherazade the beautiful storyteller who saves her own life by amusing the sultan with 1 thousand tales. She marries him and he does not cut off her head. In fact he adores her. He will let her make a lot of her own decisions for the kingdom’s benefit! This also smells likes something on Queen Esther of the Bible. Very Persian and feminine but regal and strong, commands attention. Queen Esther saved her people, the Jews, by boldly entering into forbidden male territory the king’s audience chamber risking her own life in order to save her people from the evil Haman’s genocide plot. Surely this is the scent that perfumed the air as she walked into that chamber. As a perfume on the skin it’s very aromatic, exotic, very seductive, bold and romantic. It’s not easy to pull it off. You have to be a bit of a sultana yourself with a regal presence, nobility, dignity, elegance but more than anything with the kind of inner strength that makes a person a true leader. This doesn’t mean you have to be older or even what I described to wear it. If you appreciate the notes in this perfume, if you like Orientals, taif rose, jasmine, patchouli, incense and oud, you are going to be in heaven smelling this perfume. It’s an attar of the highest quality. I am so amazed each time I smell it. It’s really not complex, not multi layered but it has all the right notes that make up a true solid Oriental fragrance. This is the truest definition of an Oriental to me. And I’m seduced by this fragrance every time I inhale it. The bottle with the diamond stopper the perfume oil is what you want to get. This is much better as an oil for the skin. I apply only a little on my wrists and on my collar bone. The scent is at it’s best in winter time when it’s cold and the warmth of oud and incense are more pronounced. This stuff is so amazing. Ah I love my Orientals. Next stop Dubai! Can’t wait!
senior-masim – :
This one is nice, however I had to buy it in a pen spray as I couldn’t get hold of the oil. Its lovely on the dry down, nice and rose/ oud/ soft smoky smell. But I would prefer the oil as they are much better than sprays for the non western fragrances
unlimaraisinI – :
Oh, this is A Beauty! Gentle yet strong, deep and sensuous, smooth and feminine in an unconventional way. Sultana is Aila Taiha (lost girl), the inspiration behind an old Arabic song, deep, bold, velvety and sexy. The oud is prominent with sandalwood which lends a deep and resinous quality to it, but it all filters through a cloud of taif rose and jasmine, carnal, fleshy, aromatic and strong, I can also detect a hint of olibanum but that could be the assiduous input of incense and spices! The citrus keeps the balance between sweet and fresh perfectly, this is superbly blended and executed, a bold scent for a bold seductress, no prisoners taken here! This is pure love, with the added bonus of excellent longevity though mild projection, but that’s the beauty of all Arabic oils, only the lucky ones close to you can sense its beauty…
Sq – :
No Heavy beastUK, it is not western, but middle eastern artillery all the way)))
yussya1507 – :
Tendai – try *SULTAN AL ATOUR* BY ARABIAN OUD – available on EBay
VA355 – :
i just purchased this perfume and it smells absolutely amazing. This is the scent I was looking for a while now…I am really happy I bought it and that I discovered it as it was a blind buy from the internet.
AcrordStoorma – :
a lovely oreintal perfume it is so feminine wait for it until it dry down and smell gourges if u want to imagine the smell it’s like the type of cinema
and what i love about it it has on alkhol in it apply it on your skin and after minute who smell u ask what u wear, really good stuff
888-58хк – :
Hi Tenai
You need to supply more information — name of perfume house etc. The name you gave does not exist on mainstream arabian perfume house offerings — on the other hand, it could have been made by a private perfumer OR it may be out of production! Good luck!
rug767elipseskism – :
I believe there is a fragrance called Sultana Alotour – which is a unisex fragrance oil. A friend wears it and it SMELLS DEVINE!! LASTS FOREVER!! I WOULD LIKE TO GET MY HANDS ON IT – can anyone help??