{"product_id":"ibraq-black-diamond-incense-edp","title":"BLACK DIAMOND INCENSE Edp","description":"\u003ch1\u003eIBRAQ Black Diamond Incense 150ml: What the Smoke Is Actually Made Of\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIBRAQ Black Diamond Incense is a unisex perfume from the Saudi house Ibrahim Al Qurashi, launched in 2023 as part of its Diamond Collection. Black currant, sea-water freshness and birch open it. Incense, vanilla and sandalwood sit in the middle. Leather, oud, smoke and amber hold the base.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo things trip buyers up. Despite the name, this sprays rather than burns, so it is not bakhoor. And it exists in three sizes that listings constantly confuse, which matters because you cannot compare prices across them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eIBRAQ Black Diamond Incense: the short version\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat it is\u003c\/strong\u003e: IBRAQ Black Diamond Incense sprays rather than burns. A unisex perfume from 2023.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSmells like\u003c\/strong\u003e: Smoky leather and oud, opened by something cool and fruity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDominant accord\u003c\/strong\u003e: Smoky dominates the accord ranking outright, ahead of amber, oud and leather.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSizes\u003c\/strong\u003e: Two sprays and an oil, carrying three separate barcodes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBest for\u003c\/strong\u003e: Evenings, cold weather, formal rooms.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe brand\u003c\/strong\u003e: IBRAQ is the house formerly trading as Ibrahim Al Qurashi.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eIBRAQ BLACK DIAMOND INCENSE Fragrance Notes:\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTop Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e: Black Currant, Aquatic notes, Birch.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMiddle Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e: Incense, Vanilla, Sandalwood.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBase Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e: Leather, Oud, Smoke, Amber.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCount the notes on IBRAQ Black Diamond Incense and you get eleven. Count the materials and the number drops sharply, because several of those words name an effect rather than an ingredient. The next section explains which ones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat does IBRAQ Black Diamond Incense smell like?\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe opening of IBRAQ Black Diamond Incense is the surprising part. Black currant brings a tart fruity bite, and an aquatic accord gives a cool, almost saline lift. That is an unusual doorway into an oud fragrance, and it reads deliberately modern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnderneath the freshness, birch is already working. It arrives early and dark, and it carries the whole composition toward the base rather than sitting in the opening as a separate idea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe middle softens things. Frankincense brings its dry resinous character, sandalwood adds a creamy wood, and vanilla keeps the smoke from turning harsh. This is the most wearable stretch of the fragrance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen the base takes over completely. Leather, oud, smoke and amber combine into the dense, animalic drydown that gives IBRAQ Black Diamond Incense its name. The published accord ranking puts smoky at the maximum value, well clear of everything else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eBirch, leather and smoke are one material\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStart with leather, because it does not exist. There is no essential oil of hide and no leather extract of any kind. Leather in perfumery is an accord, which means a perfumer builds it from other things every single time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe classic build has three pillars. Something smoky, usually birch tar or cade. Something acrid and green, usually isobutyl quinoline. Something animalic, traditionally castoreum, now mostly synthetic phenolics with labdanum or styrax for warmth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBirch tar is the smoky pillar, and it smells of tar, burnt leather and phenol all at once. So when the IBRAQ Black Diamond Incense pyramid lists birch near the top and then leather and smoke in the base, it is very likely describing one material three times, at three points in the fragrance, under three different names.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNone of this makes the fragrance worse. It makes the note list less informative than it looks, and it explains why IBRAQ Black Diamond Incense smells more unified than eleven separate notes would suggest. Those three are pulling in the same direction because they share a source.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhy that material is measured in parts per billion\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBirch tar comes from pyrolysis: birch wood cooks in an oven without oxygen until it breaks down into a black, viscous tar. That process also creates polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and some of them are carcinogenic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo regulators bar crude birch tar from finished fragrance outright. Only a rectified grade qualifies, made by redistilling the tar under vacuum, which cuts benzopyrene content from roughly 1,000 parts per million down to around 10.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEven then the ceiling for a fragrance like IBRAQ Black Diamond Incense is severe. IFRA caps benzopyrene and 1,2-benzanthracene combined at one part per billion in the finished product. Perfumers work with the rectified oil at a tiny fraction of a formula.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhich produces the striking fact about IBRAQ Black Diamond Incense. Smoky is its loudest accord by a distance, and the material most responsible for that is regulated down to parts per billion. Potency in perfumery has very little to do with quantity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e150 ml, 200 ml or 15 ml: check which one you are buying\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe house sells IBRAQ Black Diamond Incense in three formats, and they carry different barcodes. There is a 150 ml spray, a 200 ml spray, and a 15 ml perfume oil listed under the Duhn name, duhn being the Arabic word for oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRetailer listings mix the two IBRAQ Black Diamond Incense sprays up constantly. Titles saying 150 ml sit on pages whose own web addresses say 200 ml, and the reverse happens just as often. Marketplace sellers copy each other, so the error spreads.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat matters for one practical reason. A price that looks good against a 200 ml bottle stops looking good against a 150 ml one, and the gap is a third of the product. Check the millilitres on the carton rather than the title.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 15 ml oil is a different proposition again. Oils apply differently, last differently on skin, and should not be compared to a spray on price per millilitre at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWho IBRAQ Black Diamond Incense suits\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIBRAQ Black Diamond Incense belongs to cold evenings and formal rooms. It suits someone who already enjoys smoky leather and oud, and who wants a version with a cooler, more contemporary opening than the usual Gulf oud entrance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the wrong pick for anyone who wants fresh and inoffensive. The aquatic opening is brief, and what follows is dark, animalic and assertive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IBRAHIM AL QURASHI","offers":[{"title":"2 ML","offer_id":57408517734778,"sku":null,"price":3.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"5 ML","offer_id":57408517767546,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"150 ML","offer_id":57408517800314,"sku":"6287020283468","price":79.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0570\/0891\/4541\/files\/ibraq-Black-Diamond-Incense-perfume-bottle-surrounded-by-leather-and-oud-against-white-background.jpg?v=1791816313","url":"https:\/\/zaoud.it\/ru\/products\/ibraq-black-diamond-incense-edp","provider":"ZAOUD - Profumi Arabi di Nicchia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}