The Rose of Sandžak

Enchanted Rose was composed around Sultan Red Rose – jammy, radiant, unapologetically lush. Rose de Mai, Ruh Gulab, Royal Ta’ifi from the 80s, Burmese oud from the same era, black tea, pear, saffron. It’s, by any measure, already one of the most decadent rose-oud perfumes ever composed.

So when a commission arrives asking to explore the other side of that idea – less bloom, more resin; less sweetness, more permanence – the challenge isn’t finding better ingredients. It’s finding the right ones.

For this semi-bespoke, Sultan Red Rose and Sultan White Rose are brought together as a single accord. These are not two roses mixed in a bottle. Sultan Red Rose is syrupy, resinous, carnal – Taifi petals saturated in vintage oud and musk, so concentrated it sits on the skin like a paste rather than a fragrance. 

Sultan White Rose is its counterpart: luminous, cooler, the same flower stripped of its heaviness. The red anchors the white; the white stops the red from caving in on itself. What comes out the other side is a rose with genuine structural tension – not sweet, not dark, but neither canceling the other out.

Then Oud Ertugrul II – a Borneo oil that behaves unlike any Borneo should. 

Where Borneo agarwood typically presents dry and austere, Ertugrul II practically drips: zesty, jammy, cinnamon-laced berries wrapped in a creamy vanillic accord, nine years of aging having smoothed every edge into something impeccably refined. 

It’s not the obvious choice for a rose composition – which is precisely what makes it so effective here. That citrus-forward brightness cuts through the density of the rose accord without lifting it into sweetness, while the quietly animalic Bornean base gives the whole composition somewhere to land. 

The Rose of Sandzak. Named for the homeland of the patron who commissioned it – and finished exactly where that brief pointed: somewhere no off-the-shelf perfume could have gone.

Plaque coated in 18-karat gold. Each one is custom-made. A limited number ships immediately – subsequent orders are fulfilled as each one is completed.

Available for Eid only.