

This is not something the Moth Woman has encountered before and appealing beyond its novel nature.īy four hours, AHN becomes quieter and soapiness taked over. There is an airiness to AHN which is lovely, like a cool breeze on a hot day. The refreshing mentholated effect continues. AHN’s coniferous heart still remains.Īfter two hours, the spicy notes come to the fore. It is still vividly green but has changed from a showy, Christmas green to something a little darker, cooler and more soothing. One hour later and projection has dropped significantly but given this fragrance’s size on first application, this makes it more wearable. Be warned, AHN has quite large projection. People often poo-poo soapy notes but the clean feel they bring can be refreshing. This is backed with nose tingling, fresh soap aldehydes. It is herbal in nature, like the odour of a remedy be given by a medieval monk. This is accompanied by a fleeting whiff of cough drop. This feeling breezes through vaguely metholated phase early in the development. The overall impression is enormous, vivid green. It is spicy, overall similar to Pino Sylvestre but cleaner and fresher. This did not happen mercifully.ĪHN opens with slightly sweetened pine and small amounts of juniper. With this in mind, The Moth Woman was apprehensive about Al Haramain Naaem (AHN) not due to anything about this fragrance in particular but because she had had a bad experience with a perfume of the same name that lurched into violent headaches. There is even one company who sells two completely different fragrances with exactly the same name.

Some of the same names can be found in various brands, tending to be riffs on the same theme, the same way a lot of companies have a violet soliflore, the difference being one may be a little greener or another, sweeter than its competitor. Another point on which it varies, is naming.

Rose based scents are commonly worn by mean, a definite paradigm shift for Westerners. Perfume is marketed more heavily to both sexes in the Arabic world, whereas in the West, the feminine dominates. Taking a deep breath, you step out from beneath the sheltering roof and are on your way.Īrabian perfume culture, on the whole, seems to have some key differences to its Western cousin. There’s another forty miles of trail between you and your goal. The air is fresh and clean, the morning misty. You stand, for a moment, under the shelter of the entrance way, admiring the view between the pines down to the creek. Inside, a women is singing as she bathes, two others discuss a local waterfall. The smell of white soap drifts from the shower block on clouds of steam.
