Leather Ghalia

Most of the famous perfume houses have tried their hand at making the ultimate leather frag. Many of them found inspiration in Old English Leather and the Cuir de Russies by Creed & Chanel. Names like Napoleon, Mick Jagger and Errol Flynn top the list of VIPs who used Cuir colognes as their signature scent. So, it’s a longstanding and intimidating tradition to step into.

These compositions were an inspiration and I wouldn’t even think of trying to one-up any of the master perfumers who-ve been keeping the Cuir heritage alive. My hope here is simply to add to that tradition.

Having delved into all the Cuir EDTs, EDPs and colognes I could get my hands on, one thing always made me wonder… There’s one ingredient that could make any leather aroma explode with oomph in a way nothing else comes even close… yet nobody ever used it!

This is what led to the creation of Leather Ghalia. To add an OUD-inspired rendition to the legacy of Old English Leather & Co, and offer fragrance lovers the chance to experience just how amazing and exalting a fixative Artisanal Oud can be…

The oozing sensuality of Leather Ghalia is courtesy of the eclectic fusion of oud with pristine roses.

Leather Ghalia goes back to the OG composition of formed the heart of what became Oud Royale, the perfume. That means this Leather Ghalia features the same batch of sinking-grade Myitkyina oud that went into the original Oud Royale, which had been in the sultan’s collection since the 1980s, and smells replete with the olde oud goodness nothing but time can impart into a bottle.

And I don’t mean we added a few drops to tell a story. A quarter of Leather Ghalia is oud…… so take a deep whiff and smell for yourself what I’m talking about.

EO Platinum editions each includes our hand-crafted quartz applicator.

The top notes are alive and savory, with a sharp frankincense-like citrus chord infused with frangipani and vanilla that immediately highlights the tobacco leaf in more detail within a few minutes. This edition features an assortment of different ouds that morph the unique interplay between the Sultan’s vintage Burmese oud’s spicy zest and the smokey-sweet citrus-tobacco tenor of the top notes with the jasmine-rose heart.

I didn’t want to temper down the sensual quality of previous cuir colognes – vintage leather jacket, tobacco chewing heart notes… the sultry allure has always defined cuir perfumes, and that’s why you’ll find bohemian artists and businessmen wearing them alike. Now, add the oud and in Leather Ghalia you get tobacco laced leather-come-hither heart notes that flow from its velvet, raw saddle top. You could even have called it Cuir de Charnel because it’s so unapologetically seductive… dab some this leather-oud brew on your neck one evening and it might just push your mojo into second gear, if you know what I mean.

If every new Ward al Taifi that comes out is just too rosy for you, here’s to roughing things up. Or if birch tar and citrus just isn’t your thing. When you crave a scent’s organic allure without the candy-make-it-sweet-please additives, uncap your bottle of Leather Ghalia and sniff yourself some Ahhhh… NOW we’re talkin’.

No matter how talented the perfumer, he or she is only as good as their ingredients allow them to be. My thanks goes out to all those who go to the ends of the world to make it possible for us to work with only the finest ingredients nature has to offer. At the end of the day, this is what really makes this ghalia such a decadent oud fragrance

Leather Ghalia doesn’t stop at giving you the ultimate vintage oud experience. To make this a true ghalia, you can’t end the show with oud and fine roses. That’s why you can hold the bottle in your hand and see the layer of Sultan Qaboos’ antique Tibetan musk drenched in the Sultan’s own collection of ambergris, crushed to a powder all these decades later – right inside your bottle

As I said before, ghalias were traditionally gifted to the sultans. But Leather Ghalia is – literally – the Sultan’s gift to you and me.

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This is one of the rawest oils I’ve come across, it blasts your nose with all the oud rose and ambergris packed away inside as an introduction, then gently sits you down and introduces itself as one of the most potent leather oils I’ve ever smelled.

It’s stronger than even the old Sultan Leather Ghalia.

Suffice it to say if you love the good old leather smell then this is just that and more, just cranked to a new level.

P.S I love how I can see the grains of ambergris and other bits in this oil, it’s another fine addition to my growing eo platinum collection.

—Jesse G / Canada

Maa Sha Allah

Alhamdulillah

To me,its the best-smelling perfume Oil/Attar ever.

And Nothing comes Close

Truely,its the pinnacle of Oud-Leather-Rose-Ambergris fragnance.

—Mohammad B / Bangladesh

A couple hours ago, I applied a swipe of the Platinum line Leather Ghalia attar from a sample vial and I am blown away by its beauty. On my skin, it has developed into a gorgeous comforting scent that is utterly pheromonal….

LG opens with a bright grapefruit like citrus note that dissipates literally within a few minutes and then the composition develops into a cozy, smoooooooth tobacco, oud, rose, leather scent. Everything is well blended and oozes class. I applied it to my forearms and have been catching whiff of this deliciousness while working on the computer.

For the record, I have owned EO1 OG and EO1 Assam and Sultan Leather Attar OG, and have adored the Siem Reap edition, but right now this LG seems to be the most attractive. Highly recommend to sample.

P.S. Instead of the crystal wand, EO should have included a baseball bat with which your wife could chase away all the ladies flocking towards you while you are wearing this magic potion.

—Moon B / USA

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Beautiful gem. From start to finish. Beautiful musk, oud and slight rose and ambergris. A must have attar in my opinion.

—Anas A. / USA

Leather drenched in sweetness of oud, musk, amber. Scent of the scents.

—Muhammad A.

Opulent rose, oud, ambergris & sensual musk.

—Alvin S.

Sultan Leather Ghalia was amazing to smell. If I had to describe it in one word, it would also be “comforting”. This is something I can’t wait to wear in the colder months. You get more of the musk and ambergris here than in the Sultan Leather attar of course, but it feels even more dignified and I am absolutely loving it.

— Masrour B. / USA

An attar that many still dont understand its true power.

—Onurcan S. / Turkey

A brain melting and soulful scent!! Alfa and omega!

—Nemanja M. / Serbia

Sultan leather Ghaliya: Sittings with saints, scents of paradise.

—Majid I. / UK

Sultan Leather Ghalia: a prismatic display of royal oud, Tibetan musk, and roses for the history books!

Wearing this for the first time was such an emotional response that I feel like I temporarily disassociated. If Earth had a womb, this was the place I found myself… utterly wrapped in comfort and nostalgia–a place I’ve always known without having to recognize or remember.

The array of nuances round out what is the most supple leather fragrance I’ve ever imagined. A sensual, fleshy & floral opening… definitely peerless rose, crystalline musk and ambergris… and while there’s so more in this bouquet (maybe lavender and jasmine?), it’s neither overtly floral nor musky, though both elements clearly sing and supercharge the sinking-grade oud and amber base.

The oud maintains a vibrational tenor, electrifying the rich amber notes and becomes so addictive that at this exact moment, my nose tingles with numbness after being stuck to my wrist for the past two hours.

Masterclass.

—Mitchell R. / USA

I’m currently basking in a wearing of SLG. Wow. This is one for the rose Ghalia lovers. True, pure, rose, Oud, musk and ambergris. I’m walking around in a lush creamy scent bubble. This one goes on my list immediately.

—Jono B. / USA

Sultan Leather Ghalia: Represents the excellence of execution. In fact, this is The Executioners Dream.

I have nothing but Adoration for this version of Sultan Leather Ghalia. It goes far beyond being a Master Thesis for future Perfumers to study on how it’s Done. This would be more of a Dissertation which is required to earn your Doctorate or PhD. Please don’t change this iteration. I have no doubt this is one of the Greatest Attars in existence right now regardless of Price!!! I have been in search of my Holy Grail Fragrance for (Years) now. And this is closest I have come….to that I will continue to pursue….Peace Beloved.

—Van G. / USA

THIS is not a horse ride but a Sultans Safari on the Back of an Elephant right through the Serengeti. (!Outstanding!)

—Fernando F. / Spain

As soon as I got it I slathered up. At first I thought it was weak, comparing it to the original SLA and also a little disappointed that it wasn’t the same as SLA. I thought it was more akin to Ensar’s Ghalia Attar. I couldn’t smell it very well though. The next day I put on even more…all but disappeared on me again. The day after I remembered reading “less is more” from a review and holy cra* was he right. I was putting so much on I instantly became noseblind to it.

This isn’t a punch you in the face tatted up biker smoking a cigar wrapped in rawhide leather like the original Sultan Leather Attar… it’s something much more ethereal and mysterious. The man in the shadows with the long barrel revolver, suited up with a white felt hat sporting a freshly bloomed red indian rose pinned to it, and cloaked by his London Fog style well conditioned brown leather trench coat while in the shadows smoking a cigarette as the cool night fog rolls by. When I just used a small amount I finally started to see the image.

The musk is phenomenal, the rose, the whatever those smells are dancing in the air together that I can’t figure out. That cooling effect that the top notes of SLA had that were missing from the Manipur version, this has that accord! So yes, I see why this is called Sultan Leather Ghalia now. And the Ingredients smell absolutely top notch indeed. If you’re expecting SLA like I was you will be disappointed… at first… then you will fall backwards in disbelief of what your nose brain is taking in.

It’s like the tippy top notes were skimmed off of SLA and turned into a thick mist throughout the air while in a field of roses just as they are opening while it’s still dark and cool outside, with a little cigarette smoke wafting around. But not an actual gross smell of cigarettes… more like what you would imagine a cigarette to smell like in a 007 movie (with Sean Connery of course) or a scene from a Dick Tracy movie. I can’t describe this stuff in scent terms, only the images it conjures up.

I haven’t been this excited for a composition in a looong time. The drydown is great too…but the top notes last so damn long that’s all I care about hahaha. Sultan Leather Ghalia doesn’t take the crown… it IS the crown. And whoever wears it is the Sultan. Well played Mr. Ensar, well played.

—Chris / USA

I will say that, of all of the attars and pure parfums (by Ensar) I own, SLG and Notes From Underground have taken top seeds. I’m also a huge fan of the sparkle imparted by anything with Tibetan Musk. The closest resemblance that I’ve seen to SLG is the Oud Royale parfum, which makes complete sense; it seems to be designed that way. No, I don’t own the parfum but acquired a sample and can say that they are practically carbon copies, while the parfum certainly projects more, and upholds a brightness that feels supported by more rose and ambergris. The reason I make this comparison is that sometimes the parallel nature of these things, as professed by the “ad copy,” is spot-on. Other times, it is not. For example, I find huge disparities between Notes from Underground and its center-point oud—Ha Tinh LTD.

I’ve never tried the Sultan Leather Attar, but the Ghalia edition does not disappoint in living up to its name: A gorgeous saddle leather seeped in earth, a little salty funk, roses and jasmine, and given the lift (more so than many attars) by the ever-effervescent Tibetan musk whose infusion, basically, I might take intravenously if I could. It just makes everything… BETTER.

SLG is thick, tenacious, and long-lasting. Very little green here. The camphoric white flower notes add a bit of the medicinal, but we’re not talking tannery (as often mixed with leathers). This is just rich, exquisite leather. Its sweetness is subtle, interplaying at times with the sours of citrus notes up top and a vanillic, woody hum that gives the leather core a very aged, vintage feel.

Some speak of tobacco elements found here, though I find nothing smoked, leafy, or particularly tobacco-resinous compared to EO Red or Thai Tabac (both of which, by the way, are gorgeous).

As a leather-rose-oud-musk elixir, this is a love-at-first-sniff art oil. I LOVE this magic.

—Lawrence S. / Singapore

Ever since I had my first experience of Sultan Leather Attar (several months back) my mind was blown as I was introduced to Ensar Oud. Although fortunate to gain a sample, I narrowly missed out on obtaining a larger bottle and was hoping for the chance again until this day.

So what better news could I ask for then to have the chance in owning the successor to SLA…Sultan Leather Ghalia (SLG). I call it a birthday gift to myself (any excuse for a purchase 😂 🤗) although the true gift is the history in this bottle that Sidi Ensar has made available to us – thank you dearly 🙏🏽.

So it arrived earlier today and with no punches pulled, SLG hit me as soon as I unscrewed that little gold top (you all know that feeling). Although everything has its place with me this has to be one of my new favourites of all! I’m not that talented of a nose but the combination of rare oud, rose, and many more interwoven facets bringing out the supreme leather scent I have looked forward to experiencing is a masterful stroke.

I had the smile of a Cheshire Cat whilst I took in the opening and felt some of the crushed Sultan Qaboos musk/ambergris powder on my skin. I truly feel privileged to own and wear this magnificent scent. Thank you to Sidi Ensar and all those that have allowed us to have a share of these treasures.

—Aamir R. / UK

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