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Date Night Scents

These are the close-range fragrances: dark rose, vanilla, amber and oud, chosen because they read well at conversation distance rather than across a room. Oil-based attars suit this best, since they stay near the skin and warm with body heat. Both formats are here, in 8ml roll-ons and eau de parfum, blended in India. Notes and wear time are published on each product page. Placement matters more than quantity in the evening, and the guide to applying attar explains where it actually works.

Roll-on attars and eau de parfumsNotes listed on every product93 fragrances
93 products

Products in Date Night Scents

Essent Rose Oud 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — oud & amber

The Romantic

Rose Oud

Rose and oud. The argument and the making up.

From $10.20
Essent Tobacco Vanille 100 ml eau de parfum bottle — amber oriental

Bold Bhai

Tobacco Vanille

Warm, stubborn, a little old-school. Like him.

5.0 (1)
From $15.00
Essent Toy Boy 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — rose oriental

Chhota Bhai

Toy Boy

Still gets away with everything.

From $15.00
Essent Purple Oud 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — oud & amber

Bold Bhai

Purple Oud

Oud with the volume up.

From $10.20
Essent Prem Rogue 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — white floral

The Romantic

Prem Rogue

Prem, with a little mischief.

From $10.20
Essent Raees 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — amber oriental

Bold Bhai

Raees

Raees. He does not need the translation.

From $10.20
Essent 1001 Nights 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — amber oriental

The Elder

1001 Nights

A story a night, for a thousand nights.

From $10.20
Essent Arabian Nights 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — oud & amber

The Elder

Arabian Nights

Long evenings and longer stories.

From $10.20
Essent Oud Mukhallat 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — oud & amber

Bade Bhaiya

Oud Mukhallat

The one whose advice you pretend not to take.

5.0 (1)
From $10.20
Essent Oud Kuwaiti 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — oud & amber

The Elder

Oud Kuwaiti

Kuwaiti oud, for the one who insists on paying.

From $10.20
Essent Dark Rose 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — rose oriental

The Romantic

Dark Rose

Roses, but after dark.

From $10.20
Essent Ombre Leather 100 ml eau de parfum bottle — spicy oriental

Bold Bhai

Ombre Leather

Leather-jacket energy, even on a scooter.

From $15.00
Essent Y 100 ml eau de parfum bottle — fresh citrus

Fresh Citrus

Y

From $15.00
Essent Lost Cherry 100 ml eau de parfum bottle — rose oriental

Sweet Behna

Lost Cherry

Sweet on the outside, sharp underneath.

From $15.00
Essent Tobacco Oud 100 ml eau de parfum bottle — oud & amber

The Elder

Tobacco Oud

For the uncle whose stories improve each year.

From $15.00
Essent Stronger With You 100 ml eau de parfum bottle — spicy oriental

Gym Bhai

Stronger With You

Lifts heavy and calls it therapy.

From $15.00
Essent Viking Cologne 100 ml eau de parfum bottle — fresh citrus

Gym Bhai

Viking Cologne

Awake at six, arguing by seven.

From $15.00
Essent Musk Rizali 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — floral

Traditional Didi

Musk Rizali

Old attar, older bond.

From $10.20
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Essent Myrrh & Tonka 100 ml eau de parfum bottle — amber oriental

The Host

- Myrrh & Tonka

Myrrh and tonka. A room in winter.

From $15.00
Concentrated attar oil being decanted from a glass vial

Why attar?

An oil outlasts a spray.

An alcohol spray pushes scent outward fast, then fades. An attar is the oil on its own, with no ethanol, so it stays where you put it and unfolds over hours instead of minutes. That is why a small roll-on outlasts a much larger bottle of eau de toilette.

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About the Date Night Scents collection

Date-night fragrance works at close range. These are chosen for their skin-warm dry-downs, the part of a perfume only someone near enough gets to know.