The weather is turning. Your perfume should too.
October is when the UAE finally starts to cool down. It is also the right time to move the summer bottles to the back of the shelf.
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Earlier this month
Layering, the Gulf habit the rest of the world caught onto
Wearing two or three scents at once is having its moment online. Here it has been normal for as long as anyone can remember.
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EDP, EDT, extrait. What the label really tells you.
The words on the front of a bottle give you a rough idea of its strength. How long it lasts on you is another question, and in the UAE heat it is the one that matters.
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How oud left the Gulf and ended up everywhere
A generation ago you mostly smelled oud in a majlis. Now it sits on the counters of every big department store in Paris and London, and most of it is not the oud our grandparents knew.
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