This fragrance is not an oriental but an arab and a lutens that being the case dont expect it to fit in the point of departure was a scented wax found in a souk and long forgotten in a wooden box the amber only became sultanesque after i reworked the composition using cistus an herb that sticks to the fingers like tar then added an overtone that nobody had ever dreamed of vanilla why because vanilla is sticky too and it clung to my memory our fragrance expert says ambre sultan