Enchanted Rose: Hoi An

This limited edition gives you everything that makes Enchanted Rose such an oud-rose extravaganza… with a full gram of Hoi An and Ta’ifi rose added in addition to the already Nha Trang-ed beauty.

This semi-bespoke was built on Sultan Red Rose. Enchanted is perhaps too sweet a word for what this is, but Beastly Strong seemed too crude.  

Royal Ta’ifi from the 80s doused in more Ta’ifi blended into Burmese oud, also from the 80s…… we could have closed the book there. What more could you want in a rose perfume? 

But I should backtrack a bit and add that behind the roses, there’s a cup of black tea because – well… who’s done that before? And pear shot up into a vein of saffron. And green mandarin thrown against a canvass of red roses. 

And then more rose. Lots and lots of roses. The Sultan’s own Dehnal-Ward (easily among the smoothest ottos I’ve ever smelled) atop even more Royal Taifi. And beeswax because – well… have you smelled beeswax blended with pear and rose? It lets you smell sweetness from another planet. 

Sure, rose can be cloying to some. Overly sweet if it’s not the best quality. But you can’t overdo the best roses on the planet. The finest harvests money can buy today in a Jacuzzi with the finest harvests money could buy. And when we’re talking about the Sultan’s money, you know you’re not getting dried scraps, but the freshest Ta’ifi petals picked that one time that year, early as they could that morning almost half a century ago.

And castoreum because… have you smelled pear essence vaccinated with all those roses and ouds and pu-erh and black pepper and beeswax? The sweetness it adds and how it transmutes them into a diffusive blast of petals and oud smoke and spice bags popped open everywhere?

And Nha Trang LTD to put your nose in a sling after an overdose of euphoria. (“Death by Rose” – maybe that could have worked?)

And more of that vintage Burmese oud’s purple resin on top of the vintage Burmese we already had in here because she didn’t want that euphoria to end.

I can’t think of a trio to outdo the ripples of Vietnamese kinam Nha Trang LTD oozes into a stream of ancient Burmese agarwood smoke that sticks to the jammy pollen chord of beeswax. And roses everywhere.

But this edition goes beyond what is already far more than any rose perfume out there can give you. In addition to the exquisite trio, the gently bitter, soulful aroma of Hoi An (EO Platinum Collection) permeates the profile. In fact, Myanmar and Vietnam are both considered part of what classical distillers would term Hoi An, and it’s that old-school Hoi An DNA that makes them the perfect ouds to use to create the most lavish rose-oud fragrance on Earth.

With the addition of Hoi An, you get… more of it! Not only that, the overall concentration is denser, which also means proportionally, if you added them all up, the Hoi An components dominate even more so that the reddest roses cannot get their fill of the reddest oud, even if they tried.

⦿ In addition to the added Hoi An, your bottle also contains a few wild incense-grade Vietnamese agarwood twirls which impart the raw agar aroma directly into the perfume to make this red rose edition truly Hoi An.

Red olfactory euphoria – get that nose sling ready, is all I can say…

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