What Bakhour DOES smell a lot like is Al Rehab Mokhalat. (Also with a similar label!) Interestingly, though it contains nearly all the same notes and clearly shares a strong chemical similarity, Mokhalat actually appeals to me. It's rounded out with medicinal oud, wood, and possibly saffron, feeling more balanced and earthy. Somehow it even seems a little pseudo-intellectual to me! Oddly attractive, rather than repulsive. 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. 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 begins with fresh aqua, mint and bergamot, with lily and vetiver in the middle note to warm-sweet with roses, amber and musk nuances insurance. 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.

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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. 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! I agree that it has a misleading name.in my mother tongue(persian) bakhour is:vaporized water with a humidifier which is used for refreshing skin and cleansing pores.also sometimes they pour drops of herbals like lavender drops or ocaliptous in it to help curing cold.on the other hand it makes me think of oud,incense,myrrh but Al Rehab bakhour is nothing about herbals or oud 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.And yes, as someone previously mentioned, it is a lot like Poeme, if my memory serves me well. I can see me wearing this a lot.

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While there are similarities to the first Bakhour I had, this one is NOT funky. NOT loud. NOT high pitched and almost acrid. NOT even bitter. What I smell now in place of that funky oddness is a hint of tangy musk distinctive to middle eastern blends, and also a bit of oud.

Today my sister in love asked me to give her a perfume so that she could wear on a party where she was going to also meet her date.she forgot to bring her own.she hates sweet fragrances(unlike me)and only likes very fresh,very citrusy or aquatic scents(unlike me).lovely was sitting right in front of me so it was the first thing that came to my mind.after spraying it she cried out:girl this stuff is sweeet!it smells like your other perfume,sweet like candy by ariana grande.it's going to kill me with headache! 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. I must warn, though that to reach the beautiful dry down of Bakhour, you have to get past the initial brassy cheapness of the first hour, which I loathe. Some of these Al-rehabs can turn out to be gems after it develops, but it seems that all of them have a strong, intense, often unpleasant beginning. 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. 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.

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Bakhour" worthes a lot more than it's price tag.it can beat a lot of popular high-end fragrances.I love how it develops on my skin and once again I'm so happy to discover this cheap but great brand.it's a pity that they're not widely available where I live It took me ages to get around to writing this review. Why? Because I didn't know for sure WHICH attar I had! The little label is extremely similar to that of Crystal and partly worn away at that. Neither am I particularly fluent in Arabic, alas. ;) This very delicious and intense stage is with me for an hour or two.then sweetness calms down a lot.fruits fade away,flowers dry down to a soft floral powder and I can mostly smell benzoin,sandalwood and amber.warm and clean and sensual and more refined comparing to the recent syrupy sweet floral-fruity-vanilla level.I enjoy it's dry down too 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! On to comparisons... The lovely Badar is a TINY bit like Bakhour, but only in category. I find Badar goes a slightly sour on me, but that it radiates with warm beauty on the right skin. It's well worth trying, because Badar smells vastly more expensive than it is. Sweet honey, musk, and jasmine - with touches of patch and wood. In other words, Exotic yet Approachable.

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. 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. Indeed very close to Britney Spears Fantasy, so this review is more of a comparison of these two. The opening is about the same, very bright, sweet and fruity with a tart kiwi note. I think the kiwi is a little more rounded and less sour than in Fantasy. I don't know about pre-reformulated Fantasy, if I ever smelled that it must have been over a decade ago. Fantastic is also a little more floral than Fantasy, but these are only minor differences, so I thought that Fantastic is pretty much just a dupe.