Ibn Arabi

Ibn Arabi by Ensar Oud is a fragrance for women and men. Top notes are Rosemary, Palisander Rosewood and Pineapple; middle notes are Bulgarian Rose, Frangipani and Black Tea; base notes are Agarwood (Oud) and Patchouli. "Ibn Arabi was the sufi sage of Spain and this perfume is both a tribute to his heritage and an olfactory rendering of the time and land he lived in. The seductive scent of frangipani’s almost caramel-like sweetness – creamy, viscous, like tuberose… but prettier. Sourcing this particular frangipani has been the bane of our company! This extract is just so delicious and rich others smell totally bland by comparison. Take that plush frangi aroma then spread it over a zesty combo of rosewood and pineapple laced with black tea siphoned through saffron and rosemary to make this chord more austere. As the composition turns thicker, you add smokey Sumatran oud injected with a wild Cambodian oud (alone worth $550+ per bottle – wild-harvested and distilled with Cambodian waterfall water) and raw Borneo resin thrown onto a bed of Bulgarian rose held up by green patchouli to impart a cooling tone to the otherwise opulent – and overall noir – profile. The ouds in here alone tell you of the caliber you should expect. The rare Sumatran distillation adds a coffee-smokey tenor that gets nicely lifted through rosa damascena’s natural diffusive power. The Koh Kong/Pursat co-distill then imbues the scent with a green, gently sour crassna touch that plays off those incense tones in a fragrant new way. When I think of Spain’s golden era in olfactory terms, I see red-orange tones lined with green. That’s where the pineapple comes in! To add a touch of yellow to the deep orange of the frangipani and the red rose. As if you’ve passed through the halls of Alhambra to reach the rooftop, you look out at the horizon lush with stoney greenery, captured by the patchouli and Cambodi oud, where the raw agarwood resin adds its sweetness and acts like the stairs that lead you from those yellow-orange-red archways, through the darker incense halls out onto the view of treetops with faded-red rooftops popping out in between." - a note from the brand.