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Dahaab Saafi

The houseUnisex

VersionEau de Parfum

Bright lemon and peach over rose and soft musk, settling into cedar, sweet Tahitian vanilla and chocolate.

A shop’s page says

You’ll smell chocolate, peach, lemon, musk, Tahitian Vanilla and cedar.

The shop’s page

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Dahaab Saafi’s scent picture, a draft: chocolate, peach, lemon, musk, vanilla, cedar drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Dahaab Saafi, top notes: Lemon

Heartas it settles

Dahaab Saafi, heart: Chocolate, Peach, Citronellol (rose), Eugenol (clove)

Dry-downwhat stays

Dahaab Saafi, dry-down: Musk, Vanilla, Cedar

What’s inside it

What a shop’s page names

ChocolatePeachLemonMuskTahitian VanillaCedar

What the label names

7 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

1 citrus1 herbs & lavender4 florals1 spices

Citrus1

Limonene

Herbs & lavender1

Linalool

Florals4

Citronellol (rose)Geraniol (rose)Hexyl cinnamal (aldehydes)Hydroxycitronellal

Spices1

Eugenol (clove)
2 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell2

AlcoholWater

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Libre Santal CoutureYSL · shares lemon, cashmere knit, vanilla and cedar (Atlas cedar)$155 for 50 ml
Eden Sparkling Lychee 39Kayali · shares lemon, cashmere knit, vanilla and cedar (Atlas cedar)about $146 for 100 ml
No1 FeminineClive Christian · shares peach, lemon, cashmere knit and vanillaabout $859 for 50 ml

Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.