"The One" Blend
Abdul Samad Al Qurashi

Seeing Darvant's exciting review, I rushed to buy Small bottle of this blend. I'm very sad to say that I did not have the experience he did. ASQ's The One blend, at least the batch I received, was extremely diluted with some kind of carrier oil, its scent was barely discernible. Whatever scent was present dissipated within half an hour. I purchased a 2015 batch from a reputable seller (who immediately made things right,) so I reckon the oil was the same as had been delivered to him from ASQ. I have experience with CPO's from several makers other than ASQ, and despite my moniker I have a serviceable nose. The product I received may or may not be typical for ASQ's current product, I have no idea. You have been warned.

Another "eastern" resinous olfactory rendition which manages to hook the hits of an uncompromisingly western historical classicism. I absolutely adore ASAQ The One Blend, a joyful fragrance (musky, soapy, woody, floral, waxy, vaguely leathery) eliciting on me memories about luxurious hotel rooms, leather sofà, toilette soap, soft balsams, candels, long hotel lobbies, exotic vacations, far in the memories noisy ceremonies/parties (celebrated at restaurant, lounge bar or hotel ballrooms), soapy french/italian floral-chypre from a left back refined age. We need time for transition from an initial supremely soapy orangy/floral accord to a more complex and subtle "accomplished" spicy fragrance. This perfume elicits on me a sense of exotic refinement cause conjures me memories of unforgetable moments of past spent in the hotels all over the world surrounded by daring and adventurous people full of love for life, music, feasts, dance and travels. It seems to detect orange-mandarine and probably a touch of bergamot (surrounded by something vaguely minty and anyway aromatic) as prelude for an articulated combination of floral notes (probably rose and ylang-ylang in the mix), mild spices (cinnamon for sure), averagely aged aoud, woodsy resins, wax, soap (balsams, benzoin), amber, woods (probably patchouli and cedarwood), a touch of leather and musk. While the soapiness keeps to be notable the dry down "sprouts" a more articulated classy complexity conjuring a more traditional spicy/floral chypre grandeur. In the final phase the exotic refinement is almost unparalleled, dandy and supremely mondane.
P.S: this is what I feel but can't exclude all these feelings are actually elicited just by oudh as connected with a far more restricted (may be minimal) combination of notes.