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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 Guilty 100 ml eau de parfum bottle — fresh citrus

Boss Didi

Gucci Guilty

Not sorry, not explaining.

From $15.00
Essent Vanilla 28 100 ml eau de parfum bottle — amber oriental

Sweet Behna

Vanilla 28

Warm as her voice on a bad day.

From $15.00
Essent Ultra Male 100 ml eau de parfum bottle — spicy oriental

Chhota Bhai

JPG

The youngest, who thinks he is the eldest.

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

The Devout

Oud al Haram

Worn on the days that matter most.

From $10.20
Essent Red Wine 30 ml eau de parfum bottle — fruity floral

Boss Didi

Red Wine

Dinner at nine, decisions by ten.

From $10.20
Essent Miss X 8 ml roll-on attar bottle — rose oriental

The Colleague

Miss X

She remembers everyone's birthday.

$10.80
Essent Shanaya 8 ml roll-on attar bottle — fresh citrus

Fresh Citrus

Shanaya

$10.80
Essent Raees 8 ml roll-on attar bottle — spicy oriental

Spicy Oriental

Raees

$10.80
Essent Fitoor-Ae-Ishq 8 ml roll-on attar bottle — amber oriental

The Romantic

Fitoor-Ae-Ishq

Named for the kind of love that does not listen.

$10.80
Essent Rose Oud 8 ml roll-on attar bottle — rose oriental

Rose Oriental

Rose Oud

$10.80
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.