Assam Sur Fleur Review Award

Here’s what Andrej (Croatia), the winner of our free Oud Yusuf draw, had to say about Assam Sur Fleur:

“Assam Sur Fleur is a very unconventional Hindi with a perfume-like character. The first note is liquid flower nectar with a transparent sweetness. These could be shy spring flowers – but which ones? It reminds me of the taste of nectar sucked from red clover, or the smell of buttercup and yellow bedstraw growing in the fields I enjoyed as a kid. Or it might be the aroma of a fine floral-fruity oolong tea.

The barnyard, earthy and leather notes are completely absent, and it is confusing at first when these notes don’t arise. It took some time to attune myself to Assam Sur Fleur. Such an easy, uplifting scent, and so difficult to describe.

The light woody notes with acacia glow, and a hayish note appears after a while, allowing the agarwood to become recognisable. I catch whiffs of fruitiness remininiscent of perhaps loquat, yellow plum or halfway ripe peach. As the scent evolves further, it gets a hue of mellow grass.

I have to admit, it was not easy to accept this oil as a Hindi, but it shifted my perception of notes a Hindi profile offers. A rewarding experience, opening new olfactory vistas. The name is fitting, as Assam Sur Fleur really smells like agarwood distilled over imaginary flowers.”

 

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