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

You spray your favourite perfume before leaving the house, feel wonderful for an hour or two, and then it seems to vanish. By lunchtime you’re sniffing your wrist like a detective and finding nothing. It’s one of the most common fragrance frustrations, and the good news is that it’s usually fixable. Most of the time, it comes down to how and where you apply your scent rather than the bottle itself. At Romantika, we work with rich Arabian fragrances every day, and the same han