What makes a great perfume?

What makes a great perfume great? Perhaps the fact that it captivates you on the spot and then leaves you wanting more? It draws you in and then lingers for days in your mind, long after the scent trail has dissipated. If that's the definition of greatness in a perfume, then Love Kills Oud and Tango Oud are as close to perfection as one can get. 

Together, these two scents feel less like perfumes and more like dreams stitched into reality. They are akin to magic potions in glass; intoxicating, spell binding and impossibly beautiful. Perhaps that is why they move so deeply: because they remind us of what could be, of worlds we can only touch through scent.

Tango Oud takes an existing iconic masterpiece and somehow manages to evolve it, enrichen it and create a more mysterious version. Cecile Zarokian masterfully entwines the light with the dark in this enigmatic creation. Love Kills Oud manages to take one of my lesser favourite notes in rose and create one of the most hauntingly beautiful perfumes created in recent years. The richness, the depth, the sweetness of the fruit and vanilla is perfectly blended by Caroline Dumur with the rose and oud.

These perfumes transcend the notion of fragrance as an accessory. Can we label it art when that term is loosely coined for various disciplines of late? Yes, we believe it is mandatory to label such creations as art. The arts exist to trigger an emotion, a thought, a conversation or simply to move you. Their purpose transcends the scope of a fragrance. It is much more than that.

If we can suggest, attempt to get your nose on these two works of art and allow yourself to be transported to another world.