Hommage 1744 standing on agarwood, backlit by a golden disc

Muscat · Since 2012

The scent of
a country.

Frankincense from Dhofar. Rose from Jabal Akhdar. Oud that Omani dhows carried here for four hundred years — composed in Muscat by the noses behind Portrait of a Lady and Opium.

Find your fragrance How a scent unfolds

17Fragrances

550Points of sale

25Countries

1744The year it starts

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02 — The Arc

A perfume is not a list of notes.
It is a day.

Scroll to move through twelve hours of wear. The notes arrive when they actually arrive, and leave when they actually leave.

PomeloBergamotLemonRaspberry

OudWhite floralsAmbroxan

CashmeranIncensePatchouliAmber

Elapsed

0 minThe spray

Wearing

Natural oud, two years in the making, built around a date. — Théo Belmas

Top01

First 20 minutes

The volatile fraction. Citrus and pepper evaporate fastest, which is why the opening is the least honest part of a fragrance — it is gone before you reach the car.

PomeloBergamotLemonRaspberry

Heart02

20 minutes — 5 hours

The composition proper. Florals, spice and resin hold the middle for most of a working day. If you only ever smell one part of a perfume, this is the one you are buying.

OudWhite floralsAmbroxan

Base03

5 hours — the next morning

Oud, amber, musk and leather. The heaviest molecules, the last to leave, and the reason a scarf still smells of it a week later.

CashmeranIncensePatchouliAmber

Note pyramids are published by the house on every product page. The timings above are how these families behave on skin — the reason a 17-bottle collection is worth smelling twice, an hour apart.

03 — The Compass

You don’t know the name.
You know the feeling.

Drag the marker anywhere on the field. Across is how dark the composition gets; up is how far it carries off the skin. The house answers with the three closest bottles it makes.

Fills the roomWorn close

LuminousDrag anywhere on the fieldResinous

Closest match

Nasaj

Omani embroidery, read as white flowers on leather.

97.000 OMR · 100ml

Meabh McCurtain

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Also close · Incense

Royal Incense

Honey poured over burning luban.

67.000 OMR · 100ml

Philippine Courtiere

Also close · Rose

Mariya

Taif rose over coffee and caramel.

97.000 OMR · 100ml

Hamid Merati-Kashani

04 — Origins

Three things Oman has
that nowhere else does.

A perfume house in Paris can buy any material on the open market. What it cannot buy is the valley, the altitude, or four centuries of knowing which tree to cut and when to leave it alone.

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01Dhofar

The finest frankincense on earth grows in one valley.

Hojari resin comes from trees that survive the khareef — the monsoon that turns southern Oman green for three months a year. The tree is cut, then left alone. What bleeds out hardens into a tear you can burn, chew, or distil. Zafar, Royal Incense and Voyage are all built on it.

Boswellia sacra · Frankincense · لبان

2,000 m

02Jabal Akhdar

Picked before sunrise, distilled over a wood fire.

On the terraces of the Green Mountain the rose harvest lasts about thirty days in April. The flowers are still cooked in clay stills over wood, by families who have held the method for generations. Dejan is that rose, put over smoke.

Rosa damascena · Omani rose · ورد

Muscat → Malabar

03The trade route

Oman did not grow oud. Oman moved it.

Agarwood is a wound — resin an Aquilaria tree makes only once infection sets in. It never grew here, but Omani dhows carried it for centuries, which is why the Gulf wears it and Europe does not. The house buys the wood and distils, rather than reaching for a synthetic.

Aquilaria · Oud · عود

Years of the frankincense trade

The Land of Frankincense in Dhofar is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The resin moved out of these wadis to Egypt, Rome and China for five millennia before anyone thought to put it in a spray bottle. The house is a recent chapter of a very old business.

05 — The Noses

The people who
actually wrote these.

A house in Muscat does not get Dominique Ropion to answer the phone by accident. Eight perfumers, and what else they have signed.

06 — The Frames

Six rooms the house has already built.

All of this photography exists. Most of it is currently a 400-pixel thumbnail in a carousel. Shown at the size it was shot for, it does more selling than any description of a note pyramid.

A woman in Omani dress among khareef grass — NasajOmani embroidery, worn as white flowers on leather

A man holding a bottle of Wanderlust in tall grass — WanderlustGreen, aromatic, and cool — Oman after the rain

Three scented agarwood burners, smoking — Luban · Oud · AnbarThe three burners, lit

Bottles from the Main Collection with brushed brass vessels — The Main CollectionSerenity, Oud Aquilaria, Royal Incense

Lemons and citrus on painted tile — OverdoseEight citruses at once, exactly as reckless as it sounds

Hommage 1744 on agarwood, lit from behind — Hommage 1744Two years of development, and a date in November

07 — The Collection

Seventeen, and who made them.

Hommage 1744

Oud

Natural oud, two years in the making, built around a date.

Théo Belmas

Award 2025

Caden

Amber

Coffee, booze and vanilla. The one that misbehaves.

Maxime Exler

Wanderlust

Green

Oman after rain — green, cool, unhurried.

Jean-Louis Sieuzac

Voyage

Incense

The frankincense route, worn as smoke and rope.

Muatasim Al Hinai

Flowerlush

Floral

A bouquet with oud beneath the floorboards.

Philippine Courtiere · Maurice Roucel · Pierre-Constantin Guéros

Oud Aquilaria

Rose

Two roses and an apple, falling into oud.

Dominique Ropion

Royal Incense

Incense

Honey poured over burning luban.

Philippine Courtiere

Belfiore

Floral

Apricots in Wakan, powdered and warm.

Marie Salamagne

Paramour

Rose

Leathery rose with caramel on its breath.

Philippe Paparella-Paris

Serenity

Oud

A mukhallat rewritten with light in it.

Pierre Negrin

Overdose

Citrus

Eight citruses at once. Exactly as reckless as it sounds.

Philippe Paparella-Paris

Zafar

Incense

Dhofar itself — olibanum, spice, and natural oud.

Pierre-Constantin Guéros

Nasaj

Floral

Omani embroidery, read as white flowers on leather.

Meabh McCurtain

Khanjar

Oud

The dagger on the flag — ambergris, leather, pure oud.

Philippe Paparella-Paris · Muatasim Al Hinai

Mariya

Rose

Taif rose over coffee and caramel.

Hamid Merati-Kashani

Angham

Amber

140

Written for the Royal Opera House. It carries.

Emilie Coppermann

Dejan

Rose

140

Jabal Akhdar rose, held over smoke.

Dominique Ropion

Every bottle is 100ml eau de parfum and carries free engraving. Prices in Omani rial, the same as in the boutique — the house does not run a separate online price.

08 — Ways in

Nobody should buy
a perfume unsmelled.

The Explorer Collection

All seventeen, at 3ml.

The honest way to choose. Wear each one for a full day — the Arc above is the reason a two-minute strip test tells you almost nothing about a fragrance built on oud and resin. The cost of the set comes off your first 100ml bottle.

OMR · 17 × 3ml

Order the set

The Trio Collection

Three 100ml bottles in the house case.

217.000 OMR

Royal Hojari Frankincense

300g of Dhofar's highest grade, in a hand-finished tin.

29.000 OMR

And 550 doors
in 25 countries.

The house sells through its own boutiques in Oman and through selected fragrance retailers abroad. If you are anywhere near Muscat, the flagship on Oman Avenues has the engraving bench on site and will cut a name while you wait.

Points of sale worldwide

Oman

MuscatOman Avenues Mall
Flagship · engraving bar in store
MuscatMuscat Grand Mall
Full collection
MuscatMuscat International Airport
Departures, Duty Free
SalalahSalalah Grand Mall
Frankincense counter

Selected abroad

DohaPrintemps Doha
Private Collection
ParisJovoy Paris
Selected fragrances
MilanEsxence
Shown annually
LondonHarrods Salon de Parfums
Selected fragrances

The scent ofa country.

A perfume is not a list of notes.It is a day.

You don’t know the name.You know the feeling.

Nasaj

Royal Incense

Mariya

Three things Oman hasthat nowhere else does.

The finest frankincense on earth grows in one valley.

Picked before sunrise, distilled over a wood fire.

Oman did not grow oud. Oman moved it.

The people whoactually wrote these.

Dominique Ropion

Jean-Louis Sieuzac

Maurice Roucel

Pierre-Constantin Guéros

Philippe Paparella-Paris

Emilie Coppermann

Marie Salamagne

Muatasim Al Hinai

Six rooms the house has already built.

Seventeen, and who made them.

Hommage 1744

Caden

Wanderlust

Voyage

Flowerlush

Oud Aquilaria

Royal Incense

Belfiore

Paramour

Serenity

Overdose

Zafar

Nasaj

Khanjar

Mariya

Angham

Dejan

Nobody should buya perfume unsmelled.

All seventeen, at 3ml.

The Trio Collection

Royal Hojari Frankincense

And 550 doorsin 25 countries.

The scent of
a country.

A perfume is not a list of notes.
It is a day.

You don’t know the name.
You know the feeling.

Three things Oman has
that nowhere else does.

The people who
actually wrote these.

Nobody should buy
a perfume unsmelled.

And 550 doors
in 25 countries.