Soir D'orient By Maître Parfumeur Et Gantier

Said to be created exclusively for the Middle Eastern market, and apparently no longer available for sale at all except maybe on ebay or from resellers who will sell smaller portions out of the bottle, Soir d'Orient By Maître Parfumeur Et Gantier is a rich, spicy perfume heavy with the layered scents of leather, vanilla and woods, mainly the fragrant agarwood (aka aoud) from which is derived a rare and complex oil with similar character to ambergris.

Impressively potent and long-lasting, it starts off a little funky -- a quick succession of gasoline, sweat and freshly fertilized earth -- but then blooms open on the skin to reveals its smooth, sweet and smoldering soul. You don't wear Soir d'Orient, it wears you (and nearly all day), but I can think of worse fates (CdG Hinoki, for instance -- one of the worst perfumes I've ever had the misfortune to experience).

Soir d'Orient can be worn by either men or women, whoever can appreciate its dark, courtly charms -- if you can find it first, that is. Rumor has it, there were only 2000 bottles of Soir d'Orient produced. The Perfumed Court is currently selling smaller vials of the rich, aoud wood potion until there is no more left to sell.