Which Afnan to try first
67 scents is a lot to choose from. This is a route through the range: by family, by note, by name and by who each scent is listed for.
1. Pick a direction
This guide sorts the 67 scents that come with a note list into nine families, using the notes themselves. For each family, three scents to start with:
- Fresh and citrus: start with 9 AM Pour Femme, Paris Oud and Rare Reef.
- Fruity: start with Cherry Bouquet, Inara White and Kiaana Angel.
- Floral: start with 9 PM, Historic Doria and La Fleur Bouquet.
- Spicy and aromatic: start with 9 AM Dive, 9 PM Elixir and Edict Amberythme.
- Woody and green: start with 9 AM, 9 PM Night Out and 9 PM Pour Femme.
- Amber, oud and incense: start with Abiyad Mukhallat, Kiaana Crush and Mirsaal With Love.
- Sweet and gourmand: start with Delicious Bouquet, Historic Sahara and Portrait Revival.
- Musky and powdery: start with Pure Musk, Silver Musk and Paris Oud.
- Leather and tobacco: start with Supremacy Silver and Tobacco Rush.
2. Or start from a note
If you already know which notes you like, the notes page lists every note of the range, and 50 notes have a page of their own with all the scents that contain them. The notes that most scents list: musk, amber, bergamot, patchouli, vanilla, cedarwood, jasmine, sandalwood, rose, mandarin.
3. Or start from a name
Many Afnan names come in lines that share a word, and the lines are an easy way to move around the range. Each link opens the list of all perfumes, filtered by the word:
4. Who is it listed for?
The listings name an audience for most scents: 13 are listed for men, 29 for women and 25 as unisex. On the list of all perfumes you can filter by that. It is a category, not a rule: a scent listed for men is not off limits to anyone else.
5. Seasons
Where the shop gives seasons, it tags 2 scents for spring and summer only and 2 for autumn and winter only. The scent pages show these tags under key facts, attributed to the shop. Treat all of it as a suggestion.
6. Mind the size
Most scents come in 100 ml. Some come in other sizes: 80 ml for Cherry Bouquet, Delicious Bouquet and Edict Amberythme and 8 more; 90 ml for Mirsaal With Love, Mirsaal of Trust and Supremacy Gala Luxury Collection and 2 more. Each scent page gives the size.
7. Closest within Afnan
Once you have a scent you like, open its page: the section on its closest siblings names the Afnan scents that share most of its notes and says what is different. The key facts also give a one-line style in this guide's own words.
8. Scents without a note list
For these neither the brand nor the shop names notes, so there is nothing to compare by note: . Their pages show the size, the audience where it is stated and the other scents that share a word in the name.
You cannot smell it first
A note list tells you what a perfume is built from, not how it will smell on your skin. Read the shop's returns policy before you order.
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