Stories of Fragrance

Attar looks simple. A small glass bottle, a drop of oil, a dab on the wrist. But anyone who has tried one will tell you it’s less forgiving than a spray. Use too much and it feels heavy, rub it in too hard and the scent seems to vanish, put it in the wrong place and you barely notice it at all. At Romantika, we spend our days around Arabian-style fragrance, and the same questions about attar keep coming up: where does it go, how much is enough, and can it be layered with perf

Walk into any conversation about Arabian fragrance and sooner or later someone asks the same thing: should I go for an attar or a regular perfume? On the surface they look like two ways of doing the same job, but they behave very differently on skin. One comes as a tiny glass vial of oil, the other as a spray bottle you already know how to use. At Romantika, we spend our time around Arabian-style fragrance, and this is one of the questions that comes up most. Here’s a clear,