FAYUM

What a beautifully packaged and composed fragrance! Fayoum feels grounded, but not stagnant. There's a warm glow, earthy sweetness, and elegance that you carry with you as the scent unfurls. Perfect purchase.

With the rise of niche and independent perfumery, there's a lot of avant garde stuff out there -- it's interesting but not necessary something I'd reach for. But Fayoum? This is totally unusual and also utterly wearable art. Sticky dates, sweet figs, a little grassy whiff, and this gorgeous, earthy, mineralistic punch of damp clay. Dana is such a mind-blowing talent and I am completely stumped on which full sized bottle to get.

It's the driest scent I can imagine, but with a lot going on. Unique and really great.

Really loving my sample, I can't get enough. Rich, damp clay -- fecund and feculent -- pairs beautifully with the dried dates and figs. Mine starts off sweet and slightly more feminine before settling into a mineral androgyne. Feels like I'm being molded to life nose-first from the earth. Extremely impressed and will be buying more once I finish my sample!

I wear this perfume all the time. I've just deflated my tires so that I can whip my Jeep around the sand dunes. So sunbaked. So beautiful.

Very nostalgic. Beautiful scent. The presentation was also thoughtful even if just for a sample.

I love all of Jazmin Sarai’s scents!

Wow, what an unusual scent. I received the 2ml sample nearly a month ago and have tried it out a number of times and the scent changes every time. Sometimes, honestly, it's not attractive to me – too much of an overwhelming "jammy dried fig" essence – but then I go back to it and it changes completely; I can smell the clay, I can smell the wood. In a way, this has taught me what the best fragrance should reach for; always elusive, never capturing the same memories, sometimes perfect and sometimes challenging. Although I can't say this my favorite scent I've ever tried that's partially because I'm not particularly steeped in the world of fragrance and finding Jazmin Sarai was a lucky coincidence – but something about this draws me back to it over and over. I don't understand why I return to it but I do.

What a journey. It's not floral, not spicy, not sweet, not smoky. It's warmth, incense, spirituality. There's a resinous, woody aspect to it, and a touch of dried fruits like fig and apricot, a rumour of sour walnut too. It's for the nape of the neck, the hems of skirts, the ankles, and somewhere deep in a headful of thick, curly hair. It's a fragrance that brings the world around you to life. I'm not doing it justice. It's really a gift!

I have never smelled a perfume like this before, and it is just beautiful. It's complex and I can pick out the listed notes if I try, but it's also wonderfully blended and the overall effect smells to me like fresh turmeric root. That sounds like a strange scent for a fragrance but it's lovely. It's not overwhelmingly strong but with a spray or two I can smell it all day, and other people can get little whiffs from a few feet away, which is how I like it. I got it in the sample set and just ordered a full size.

Je suis complètement amoureux de cette fragrance. Me fait voyager instantanément !