Al Ghaliyah Al Shareef Oudh 30 ml

🪙101 numbered bottles, of perfumery masterpiece. The treasured Al Ghaliyah Parfum by Al Shareef.

Al-Zamakhsharī the great polymath narrates in his Rabīʿ al-Abrār wa Nususal-Akhbār;

ʿAbdullāh bin Jaʿfar gave Muʿāwiyah (RA) a glass bottle (qārūrah) of perfume; and Muʿāwiyah questioned how much he had spent on it.

Jaʿfar replied “A hefty sum (māl),”

Muʿāwiyah said, “This is valuable (Ghāliyah)”

And that is how the name Al Ghāliyah was born – the valuable, the dear, the grand.

What was inside that bottle? Not many know, but countless have claimed to have the formula.

The blending of Al-Ghāliyah was an art, and the ʿAbbāsid caliphs excelled in it. Perfumers who possessed exceptional skills in the blending of the Emir’s favourite scents would be substantially rewarded and kept in favour, and those who were the most skilled with Al-Ghāliyah were the most highly regarded of – almost an unofficial recognition, a royal proclamation of the skill and talent of the perfumer.

The ingredients of this wonder of wonders had been kept shrouded within a family for generations – we were lucky to have access to it. Today, you are looking at the recreation of this gem using the exact formula the great perfumers of the past had composed.

For the first time the original formula in Parfum form, natural, pure elegant.

Preparing the ingredients took a number of months, each of the ingredients needing to be composed to a precise consistency, in a perfect state of balance before they could carefully be infused together.

When you wear Al-Ghāliyah you appreciate why it was declared ‘the most valuable of all valuables, the precious and dear’. Experience a sense of the exquisite scents that drifted in the notable courts of the Caliphs of far-flung times.