Mélange Musk SQ

This is as simple as the ghalia formulation can get. Some may say, it’s the purest expression of it. Just oud, rose, and musk.

Each component is about as old as I am, most likely older. In the case of the musk, much older.

It’s not about the age, but what the age tells you about these aromatics. The fact that a Sultan spent royal money to create this smell tells you something about the harvests involved. That he distilled them thousands of miles from where the agarwood was obtained, in his own distillery, tells you something about the passion, and hence the expertise, that went into designing this signature profile.

That the only way you could create a ghalia that compares in depth and smoothness, in sheer enjoyment, is to use comparable ingredients, as we did with the limited edition Ghalia al-Habib (Rose 1978, aged oud, and more) – this tells you something about the objective quality of the aromatics.

I’m not trying to sell you ‘royalty’ here, nor am I pitching a celebrity endorsement. If you’re reading this, it means you probably love perfume more than most people around you and you’re simply looking for the best.

Or maybe you’re specifically looking for an exquisite forty-years-aged Myitkyina oud blended with forty-years-aged Tai’ifi rose and ancient Tibetan musk and have come to realize it doesn’t exist elsewhere.

Or you’ve heard that ‘ghalia’ means ‘expensive’ and wondered why. 

All I’m saying is that you’d be hard-pressed to find anything in this category that could beat Mélange Musk SQ.

For a simple formula like this to work, you need the finest ingredients. That’s all the Sultan set out to do, and why a fraghead royale with a bottomless wallet chose to wear this exact oil.

It smells like Oud SQ expertly blended withRoyal Ta’ifi, with a musky edge. We actually tried to beat the Sultan at his own game – by using his own stash! (We added the Tibetan musk ourselves, so you’ll see the raw grains in your bottle.)

The Ta’ifi rose dominates the opening with that hallmark lemony tinge, reddened by rich oud resin. The Sultani signature is present from the start as the oud turns the rose into a smooth aromatic liqueur, and within fifteen minutes you’ll notice a role reversal as the oud starts to come closer as the rose recedes, but only just enough. It’s never either-or, rose or oud, but their union… muskified.