Shanaya

Name: Shanaya Eau de Parfum (EDP)
Brand: Adil Qadri

Adil Qadri · Eau de Parfum (EDP) · 2024

≈ $11 · 100ml · approx. retail

The house's signature scent and its best-known seller: saffron and pimento over rose, sweetened by a caramel-and-patchouli heart, then resting on a resinous bed of agarwood, incense and amber. A sweet, spicy oriental-woody built in the Arabian idiom but with an unmistakably gourmand Indian sweetness.

Oud Warm Spicy Amber Sweet Woody Incense Caramel

The scent

Top notes

The opening · first 15 minutes

Saffron Pimento Rose

Heart notes

The core · the next few hours

Floral Notes Patchouli Caramel

Base notes

The dry-down · what lingers

Oud (Agarwood)Incense resins Amber Musk

Best for

FallWinterEveningSpecial Occasion

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