Anfas
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Saffron arrives with immediate warmth and slight metallic sparkle, almost electric against the skin, whilst jasmine unfurls simultaneously—creamy, almost honeyed, with that distinctive indolic richness that reads distinctly Eastern. The first minutes are pure amber-tinted florals, assertive and uncompromising.
The strawberry emerges around the thirty-minute mark, not fruity in the bright, cheerful sense but genuinely jammy and ripe, creating an unexpected conversation with the amber's resinous warmth. The composition becomes noticeably creamier, almost powdery—the oakmoss softening everything into a velvety embrace where saffron's initial sharpness has mellowed into something more honeyed and diffuse.
Vanilla and oakmoss become the dominant pairing, supported by whispers of strawberry's residual sweetness and the amber's honeyed base. The powdery quality deepens; the fragrance becomes increasingly intimate and skin-scent close, exhaling a soft, creamy sweetness with subtle herbaceous undertones from the oakmoss preventing any descent into pure sugared territory.
Anfas — Ishq Special is a fragrance that refuses restraint. Asim Al Qassim has constructed something deliberately sensual, where saffron's peppery warmth immediately establishes itself as the authoritative opening gesture, before jasmine sweeps in with its creamy indolence—not the green, aldehyde-sharp jasmine of Western perfumery, but something altogether richer and more intoxicating.
What makes this composition remarkable is the strawberry's refusal to be merely fruity window dressing. Rather than cloying and generic, it threads through the heart with genuine dimension, its jammy sweetness playing against the amber's resinous depth. The amber here reads as genuinely warm and enveloping, offering substance rather than mere sweetness—there's a honeyed quality that prevents the composition from tipping into pure gourmand territory. The creamy accord (64%) is palpable; it's as though the fragrance has been softened and buffed to an almost tactile smoothness.
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