Sheikh Al Shuyukh Luxe Edition
| Edp | Concentration | Edp |
| U | Gender | U |
| 2015 | Year | 2006 |
| £ | Price Tier | ££ |
White Aoud
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Which Should You Buy?
This one's a proper wild card. Some reckon it's a divine, luxurious scent, a beast-mode bargain taking them straight to the desert. Others, though, smell cheap synthetics, grandma's dusty attic, or even a 'diaper'. Love it or loathe it, it's definitely not for the faint of heart.
Pierre Montale's medicinal rose-oud composition - the softer, sweeter, more wearable sibling to Black Aoud. Saffron and Damascus rose lift a powdery oud-sandalwood core finished with a warm vanilla-amber glow.
Scent Profile
| Citrus | 0% | 1% |
| Floral | 15% | 19% |
| Fruity | 0% | 0% |
| Green | 0% | 3% |
| Sweet | 27% | 26% |
| Warm | 27% | 26% |
| Woody | 22% | 24% |
| Earthy | 23% | 19% |
| Animalic | 8% | 13% |
| Fresh | 5% | 3% |
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Accords
Performance
Season and Occasion Fit
Seasons
A cold-weather scent - best worn in winter and autumn.
Occasions
Its exceptional longevity and strong sillage make it unsuitable for office wear, as it's prone to cloying. The dense, warm, and sweet accords are ideal for dates and evening formal events, but it's too heavy for casual daytime wear unless it's very cold.
Seasons
Fragrantica voters split 100% winter, 93.1% fall - the dense rose-oud-sandalwood composition is firmly cold-weather. The vanilla-amber drydown is warming rather than fresh; summer at 28% is the weakest fit because the powdery oud feels stifling in heat.
Occasions
Night and evening coded at 85.4% of voters - the rose-oud composition is dressed-up. Strongest fit is formal evenings, date nights, and special occasions where the powdery-warm projection is welcome. Office is risky on more than one spray; casual fit is weak.
Similarity Breakdown
Both share Warm Spicy, Woody, Rose accords and Rose, Saffron notes
Subtle differences in overall composition
Where to buy
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