Afnan Perfumes
Afnan Perfumes
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A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Bergamot's brightness collides immediately with oregano's savoury herbaceousness, a combination that feels almost contradictory until pepper arrives to mediate, creating a spiky, slightly austere introduction. Within five minutes, the top notes have established themselves as distinctly aromatic rather than aromatic-fruity—there's nothing soft or yielding about this opening.
As the peppery edge softens, amber and labdanum emerge with honeyed, resinous depth, whilst opoponax adds a sophisticated bittersweet quality that prevents the composition from tipping into gourmand territory. The fragrance achieves its full olfactory personality here: a smouldering, incense-heavy scent where sweetness and smoke coexist in uneasy equilibrium, neither winning dominance.
Leather, patchouli, and oud settle into a woody, intimate base where sandalwood provides creamy structural support, transforming the composition into something closer to skin chemistry than room fragrance. What remains is primarily resinous and deeply grounding—still smoky, but now softened by proximity to skin, leaving an almost leathery-incense residue that lingers subtly.
Supremacy Incense announces itself as a deliberately provocative incense fragrance that prioritises smoke and resin over linear prettiness. The opening salvo of bergamot and oregano creates an herbal, almost culinary bite—unexpected and slightly jarring—before pepper sharpens the edge further. This is no soft, meditative temple incense; this is the smell of frankincense burning in a room with all the windows closed, where the smoke has begun to turn acrid and complex.
The heart reveals where the fragrance's true character emerges. Amber and labdanum arrive with substantial weight, their sweetness deliberately tempered by opoponax—that resinous, slightly medicinal note that prevents any cloying softness from taking hold. There's a tension here between the fragrance's desire to warm and comfort and its stubborn refusal to become conventionally pretty. It's the olfactory equivalent of wearing black leather to a summer wedding: assured, slightly confrontational, utterly uncompromising.
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