There’s a peculiar affliction that comes with smelling too much good oud.
The oud that once made your eyes roll back in your head barely raises an eyebrow anymore. And the stuff you once considered downright insane starts sounding more and more reasonable with every passing year.
I suspect you know exactly what I’m talking about.
Somewhere between exquisite taste and complete madness lies a place Ensar knows rather well. It’s where the rarest ingredients find their way into the most improbable combinations, and the very idea of restraint becomes faintly ridiculous.
He’s made some spectacularly questionable decisions in that place.
This November, he’s decided to make a few more.
The sort that make accountants nervous and perfume lovers very, very happy.
Welcome to BLACKVEMBER.
Some ouds are so good they make you wonder whether perfumery is even necessary.
And then you smell one that makes you wonder what would happen if you went ahead anyway.
Pursat is dangerous territory for anyone with a weakness for Cambodian oud. I’ve smelled enough Cambodian oud over the years to know when an oil can make twenty years of collecting feel like preparation for a single sniff. You unscrew the cap, take a sniff, and suddenly the rest of the afternoon becomes negotiable.
It’s the kind of Pursat that makes you want to keep smelling long after you’ve already understood what you’re smelling. That almost unreasonable urge to go back for another sniff, then another, chasing some elusive pleasure that seems to grow more compelling each time.
So what do you do with an oud like that?
You surround it with dark, honeyed rose, the tart juiciness of black cherries, a whisper of saffron, and the warm, salty sensuality of ambergris. Let the Pursat’s red molasses mingle with the florals, its leathery spice seep into the fruit, and its legendary Cambodian rouge slowly drive your nose mad.
$1,500+ (net) orders come with a 10 ml leather atomizer of Pursat Rouge(Pure Parfum).
I’ve smelled some extraordinary flowers in my life. Blue lotus that makes you forget where you are. Tuberose so voluptuous you could almost sink your teeth into it. Frangipani that smells like someone bottled a particularly beautiful dream.
And yet, I genuinely don’t understand why the whole world isn’t raving about osmanthus.
It belongs right up there with the best of them.
That luscious, apricot-peach sweetness, the delicate tea-like florals, the soft suede and that almost indecently beautiful, honeyed warmth. There’s something about a superior osmanthus extract that makes me want to close my eyes and do absolutely nothing except smell.
Bliss.
Of course, being hopelessly enamoured with a flower is one thing. But osmanthus, for all its exquisite beauty, has a surprisingly sensual side. That soft, suede-like warmth practically begs to be buried in muskrat and deer musk until the whole affair becomes positively indecent.
Imagine ripe apricot flesh infused with Oud Yusuf, honeyed petals tangled with soft fur, and muskrat’s furry, almost feral intimacy. The longer it wears, the more the osmanthus’s luscious allure and suede-like oud-enhanced zest become entangled with the animalic verve of the musks.
Love & Lust.
One whiff makes you fall in love… the other makes you forget your manners.
In addition to receiving both Pursat Rouge and Love & Lust, you’ll automatically be entered into our Blackvember Draw for a chance to win White Nirvana: Maluku, a $5,950 bottle of olfactory insanity.
Imagine the powdery, ethereal beauty of White Kinam, supercharged with Hoi An, Borneo 3000, Pahang, and the almost mythical Maluku – one of the rarest ouds in existence, distilled from a long-lost strain of agarwood.
Think thick, oozing red resin pierced by tart grapefruit-cherry, white carnations, and a sparkling kinamic zest that defies its own resinous depth. Each oud amplifies another facet of White Kinam’s powdery splendor, while Maluku’s exotic island-oud richness ties the whole outrageous affair together.
That, bottled, capped with faturan, and finished with an 18-karat gold-plated plaque.
$2,999+ (net) orders include:
· Pursat Rouge (10 ml, Pure Parfum)
· Love & Lust (15 ml, Pure Parfum)
· Entry to our Blackvember Draw
One draw entry for every $2,999 spent (net). Your complimentary perfumes are automatically added to your cart once you qualify.
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