Al Haramain Amber Oud Ruby

Mostly dry and warm, like cedar shavings or the inside of a wooden drawer. Underneath that, warm baking spice, in the cinnamon and clove family.

It opens on saffron and bitter almond, moves through egyptian jasmine and cedar, and settles on ambergris, woody notes and musk.

• saffron: warm leathery spice, dry with a faint medicinal bite
• jasmine: a rich white flower, heady and full. Up close it turns slightly animal, which some people love and others find too much

It lasts well and carries into a room.

Built from the note listing and the measured performance figures. We have not smelled this one.