Purple Rain: Nha Trang Rouge

*Your bottle contains actual red kyara pieces.

*The cap is hand-made from faturan, a sought-out material material for tasbih carving.

How do you take the supreme purple perfume and stain it with legendary rouge?

How do you out-burn / crimson-ify Purple Rain?

When you’ve got access to the most exquisite aromatics on Earth, making perfume can drive you up the wall.

It’s a constant game of holding back – you could use that vintage jasmine extract and add Red Kyara to it. It would smell out of this world, and no other perfume on the market would come close to matching it for the sheer quality of ingredients…

But it’s not a marketable ‘product’. You’d end up with only a sample or two you’d keep and maybe whip out to let close friends smell what most of humanity is missing out on.

But a curious thing happened.

Instead of people just chasing brand names, fragheads have begun to look past marketing claims and superlatives. They’ve started to realize that every time they read about the ‘rarest ingredients’, they have a right to question that claim because those ‘precious’ aromatics being peddled bear little resemblance to what they’ve smelled neat – oud being the most obvious example. And none more so than Nha Trang oud, whose vivid, ruby-rich heart transforms any blend it touches.

Not only have you learned more, but your nose has also become more refined (snobbish, perhaps?) in the process.

At the same time, those who enjoy EO parfums aren’t your regular Joes and Janes. Some of these frag lovers reached out to me to ask that I don’t hold back. Please! — pour Red Kyara into the Sultan Qaboos’ vintage jasmine… go right ahead!

None of us have smelled perfume like this until a few patrons suspended their intellects and got me to hang up my senses as well. Even with bespoke perfumes, which perfumer will put the best Nha Trang oud in the world on the table? (Who even has any quality Nha Trang oud at their disposal?!) Who will give you access to orris root from a hundred years ago to use along with a decades-old jasmine extract that only exists because it was locked up all these years in an actual Sultan’s treasury?

This is a new step in perfumery: perfumer and perfume lover teaming up to create not just a perfume, but an experience — and giving each other full access to every treasure on the table.

And that’s how you now have access to this bespoke, bottled insanity.

What began with a trace of red kyara, quickly turned into a full metamorphosis. Soon, the royal Ta’ifi rose stayed bloomed darker. The Sultan’s vintage jasmine fermented further in the presence of the Nha Trang Rouge’s searing zest. The iris roots, once shimmering with violet tones, now pulsed deep crimson. Every purple shimmer was stained, darkened, burned into red.

You know all the ‘Royal’ this and Royal that… ‘Royal’ Malinau, ‘Royal’ Assam, etc.

The word ‘Royal’ has become… cliché is an understatement. It’s a hollow word now, worn out by marketers with nothing real behind it.

Here, the royalty is in the wood itself.

Not ‘made for kings’ by some perfumer’s marketing team — but made by kings, in the soil, in the rainforests, and through the centuries-old trees of Nha Trang.

If I could showcase a semi-bespoke edition of a perfume made exclusively for the Sultan himself, this is what I would have sprayed him with: a crimson oud heart roaring with red kyara and vintage Nha Trang fire.

Purple Rain: Nha Trang Rouge taking a lush violet maze and sets it alight, until only red remains.

*Genuine pieces of red kyara, from the ones shows below, will be inside your bottle.

EXTREMELY LIMITED.