Tajibni fragrance notes

  • Head

    • tangerine, aldehyde

  • Heart

    • patchouli, immortelle

  • Base

    • leather, suede, amber, vanilla, heliotrope

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It never fails to surprise me just how many fragrances out there smell like Tuscan Leather, e.g., Oud Saphir (Atelier Cologne), Byredo’s Black Saffron, and countless others. Tajibni attar is the latest mimic I’ve smelled. Nothing in the notes really suggests that it should smell like Tuscan Leather. And yet it does.

Tajibni opens with the flat oily aroma of pressed mandarin peel - not fresh or sparkling, but dense and compacted. The meat and bones of the Tuscan Leather component comes up behind the oily citrus and soon it is pretty much all I can smell. To me, what all these Tuscan Leather smell-alikes have in common is a powerfully musky suede aroma built from the sawdust lining the ground of an indoor horse-riding arena.

I like this smell a lot – it reminds me of happy moments bouncing around a ring on a fat pony – but it is still more a ‘smell’ than a complex personal fragrance. That’s the way I feel about Tuscan Leather, and therefore, in the interest of fairness, it is also how I feel about its smell-alikes. Tajibni is a very likeable suede fragrance, but at approximately $150 for half a tola (six milliliters, give or take), it is impossible to recommend buying this over a bottle of the Tom Ford. If you can find it for cheaper, then it would be a way for the Tuscan Leather lover to get their fix in attar form.
1st June 2023
273502
The juxtaposition of a fruity note with the soil that birthed it works remarkably effectively in Tajibni. The note in question is a rounded and full orange, zesty and inviting. But it's the contrasting accord of dry earth receiving rain and damp bark and mulchy leaves that made me gasp with joy, it's that good. According to the Al Haramain website this has been achieved through a pairing of patchouli and immortelle – it's quite special whatever the ingredients. The mix is handled with a lightness of touch, with powdery heliotrope and muted suede offering understated support to the main players. Naturally the evolution is away from the orange (which fades out entirely) and more towards the soil accord which suits me just fine - but there are enough glints of variation to please other tastes I think.
A successful, unusual, calm composition that comes with a hefty price tag – 140 euro for 6 ml perfume oil at the time of writing.
13th January 2017
181575