Fatima Blend
Abdul Samad Al Qurashi

Light semi-sour citrus with a backing of dry woods and white musk. It's not bad, but there's something screechy about the way the woods are presented, I'm not going to lie and pretend I know anything about synths but it feels like there is something otherworldly hovering in the fourth dimension of the space-time continuum projecting a quantum distortion into the centre of my feeble goopy human brain, and it burns... Okay maybe I'm being unfair, if I smelt this on someone else I'd think it was better than 90% of the dreck out there, but personally I couldn't be followed by it for a day. Price more than reasonable if you click with it.

ASAQ Fatima Blend starts by soon as heavenly floral indolic essence with a soapy-neutral superb texture (extremely sophisticated and western in this case). Is not so easy to identify exactly the nature of the floral patterns, probably rose, jasmine and may be carnation enrich this floral extraits mash up. Some hesperidic fluid provides a touch of counteracting tartness. The floral notes are obsessively intense and bold. An high quality amber is combined with woody resins, animalic nuances (honeyed nectar and musk in primis) and resinous balsams in order to provide an hightly warm subtle soapiness extremely musky, organic and hyper sensual. Along the way it seems to be mostly (but not exclusively) dealing with an high quality "Acampora-esque" jasmine extremely natural, vegetal, "rosey" and concentrated. Along dry down I detect mostly balmy floral muskiness providing clean sensuality and visceral erotic power. I find this precious oily juice easy in structure (frankly not innovative) but perfectly "rendered" and simply irresistible.
P.S: along the way the floral (somewhat feminine) soapiness barely decreases, a touch of citric-salty tartness hangs weirdly out and a sharp organic (virile) spicy ambergris takes "boldly" the stage in all its compelling sensuality (warm, carnal, wild, spicy, mossy, organic). In this phase I see a lot in common with the glorious Shiseido Basala's dry down. A misleading (in a positive way) fragrance, initially decidedly floral (in a gentle way) and finally decidedly warm and manly. Great.