The latter most of all. :) It's a creamy kind of scent, like high quality triple milled soap with a middle eastern twist, or a pretty lotion. Feminine, Arabian, but mostly just likable rather than challenging. Wirt notes that Bakhour smells like 'artificially sweetened incense'. That's not a bad description as bakhoor is just that: incense that comes in the form of oil soaked wooden chips usually burned on top of heated charcoal. It's often used to perfume clothes, being a fragrance layer in its own right.

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The rose is very gently coming through, along with some more 'garden', and a lovely, light jasmine. I would imagine that this wears quite close to the skin, which is no bad thing, and needs to be kept away from the public for the first 30 minutes.there's a dozen of Al Rehab perfumes which I love and this is among them. BTW I have it in 35 mil spray bottle. Note - For those ready to give up on Al Rehab entirely, please consider trying Choco Musk, Soft, Sandra, Lovely, and Fantastic. Those with 'masculine' taste should try Space, U2 Man, Dakar, and Al Fares. These are more western in style. ALL will give you very good value.

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You decide! There is no way Mokhalat will appeal to those unfamiliar with middle eastern attars, but if you're willing to take your time and have an adventure, Mokhalat is the 'funky' Al Rehab I recommend. It's best in hot weather and layers well with the equally unusual Aroosah. Plus (if you live in the west) you're almost guaranteed to smell like nobody else you know. NB. 3 hours in (sans the oudh now), and it is literally Fantastic. I love it, and it is not, as I said before, light; it is sumptuous, with different layers showing themselves and intermingling, constantly. I feel like I'm living in a cloud of womanliness.

It does smell better on the skin that it does straight from the bottle, like most other Al Rehab oils. It has a slightly musky drydown, less so than my other oils, but the muskiness does present itself. Unfortunately, by the time it's drying into something other than a Febreze dupe, the scent is pretty much gone. Sillage is also minimal, unless you use a quarter of the bottle right after a shower. I knew it was going to be a light scent when I bought it, though. Bakhour is a good reproduction of classic floral bakhoor, but be warned: the strength, protection and sillage is absolutely huge and the floral notes massive. They dominate the woody notes and almost force them into submission...but they are there. The florals remain potent a good 12 hours later and just one squirt of the spray is enough to overwhelm you and, quite possibly everyone else in a room! I've learned my lesson! This settles down quite nicely after the first >30 minutes smelling of very ripe banana-flavoured tuberose with a good measure of sugar on top, although that might be because I didn't let it settle after being delivered. I know from past experience, that these oils get very 'shook up' by the whole delivery process, and need to 'rest' for a few days before their real character shows. My bad, I can't wait to try a new one. I wanted to fall in love with this like many other reviewers, but to be blunt, it's a dead ringer for Febreze. Most people in the US are familiar with Febreze, the spray air freshener/odor eliminator.

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Usually a scent named 'bakhour' (a form of middle eastern incense!) would attract me like a bee to honey. Not so here. The reviewer who summarized this particular Al Rehab as 'sour fruit and detergent' did us all a favor! Yes, there's a tangy quality that could be good - if it didn't descend into funky acid territory. NO incense, depth, or beauty appeared. I tried it repeatedly in all kinds of weather and got nowhere. So when my dearest friend begged me to pass it along - Voila. History! But when I woke up after sampling this for the first time the evening before, I smelled a creamy, vanilla-infused musk instead of the cupcake-vanilla in Fantasy. More perfumey than the baked goods drydown of the original. I tried it two more times and always got the same result, in the final drydown Fantastic becomes its own fragrance. Now, it smells very feminine and light, a nice perfume to wear during the day, with a pretty dress or blouse, and would be excellent for Spring and Summer days.if mosquitoes could wear perfume im sure this would be their chanel no 5 in terms of popularity not smell. It's interesting how a perfume acts differently on different people.for me,it's wearable year round except hot weather.and I prefer it for evening and even night wear. I can't find right words to explain how much I enjoyed this pretty,yummy,super feminine scent.indeed lovely and though very similar,I like it even more than "sweet like candy".longevity doesn't pass moderate but it's not faint.I'm happy with it's sillage. I don't think that you really need both this and Fantasy. As I have only tried the EDP spray, I can't judge the oil, and obviously a matching oil as an addition to a perfume is a different story.