Mohur Neela Vermeire Creations for women and men

Greetings Fragrantica Community! Mohur is my first fragrance review, and I couldn't think of a more beautiful scent to write about.

I ordered Neela's "Try Your India" pack last month, after reading rave reviews about this fabulous trinity of fragrances. In just a few short days I received my packet with a beautiful card with a handwritten note and the decants in a beautiful Brocade bag. Mohur was the first of the three that I sampled.

It opens with an opulent, yet soft tea rose. Much like how the beautifully fragrant David Austin style English roses often smell. Then right away, I picked up a touch of the cardamom just whispering, along with other gently blended spices--a bit of a tie in to Trayee, the first fragrance of the three. Once in awhile I would pick up a hint almond trees, and rich Benzoin incense. The oud was very tender--I couldn't really pick it up too much, although the only other times I've only smelled it in Japanese stick incense and a C02 extract form. So I'm glad it wasn't too overshadowing.

The drydown kept quite a bit of the rose, at least on my skin--And the Sandalwood stayed with me for a good 8 hours or so after I first applied it.

Oh I would love to own a full bottle of this, but for now I will have to settle on the "Try Your India" set, and pray for some unexpected cash to come my way...It would go right to Neela! :)

I just felt great wearing this scent--and even as a guy, I wouldn't hesitate to wear it any time I wanted to feel elegant and beautiful.

It's one of me faves!

Mohur is a beautiful, high-quality, fresh rose fragrance, in which I can't really detect much aoud or almond and only a little leather. However, the rose at the heart is amazingly beautiful and radiant, brightened by the citrus-incense smell of elemi resin and spiced up with ambrette, coriander and cardamom.

The other flowers in the perfume keep in the background and sing as a faint choir to the central rose.

Mohur is a wonderful fragrance for spring especially, but it can be easily worn year-round as well. It's ample but also delicate and the lasting power is around 8-10 hours with light sillage.

I recently sampled one of the Neela Vermeire perfumes and was so captivated that I had to try the other two, which I ordered from her website. A mere week later I received my beautifully packaged samples from Paris, complete with a lovely handwritten note. I was quite impressed, because that kind of excellent customer service is almost unheard of these days.

Mohur is a gorgeous rose/oud combination featuring Turkish rose oil and oud Palao from Laos. My experience with most rose/oud frags is that the oud tends to overpower the poor rose, but that's fortunately not the case here. Mohur's great big rose (11% rose accords) is beautifully enhanced by the spicy top notes of pepper, coriander and cardomom and continues to bloom and develop against the oud and leather as the scent dries down.

The story of Noor Jahan's benign captivity that inspired Mohur suits the mood I get from this perfume, which is that of a beloved woman living in a protective cocoon while time marches on outside, sort of like Sleeping Beauty in her enchanted castle. If you enjoy rose/oud frags or are just a rose lover in general, Mohur is something you ought to try. Wearing it will remind you of how special you are. Sillage was moderate on my skin, and longevity was about 6 or 7 hours.

Another sample from the editors - thank you!

Okay, in the book Jitterbug Perfume, amateur perfumer Priscilla was obsessed with finding the base note for her perfume and I'm pretty sure I know it was oudh (along with beet pollen).

On the dry down of this scent I get nothing but oudh, along with a little leather and it smells completely old and ancient and is probably the secret to eternal life. I like the rose I get on the first spray, but it doesn't linger long on me. This is a lasting fragrance. It stayed with me all day.

That said, I don't think the oudh part of this is my cup of tea, but I appreciate the complexities of this one and the fact that it is part of Neela's culture. I also like her logo very much.

i got all 3 samples of the neela vermeire perfumes. i didn't like bombay at all. i wasn't sure about mohur and trayee was my favorite, i thought. i kept coming back to smelling this one for some reason. i wore it to work today and i could still smell it after about 6 hours. i didn't put much of it on since it was just a sample size. i can definitely smell the leather, i'm not a big fan of the scent of roses, but this doesn't smell like the typical rose. this is not a girly perfume, i would say it is almost unisex, but it leans more towards feminine. it is a great fragrance, with alot of lasting power. it might replace trayee as my favorite of the 3.

This is an oud fragrance, leathery, but fresh! It's unmistakably oriental, spicy, balmy, but also very fresh, almost dewy, and powdery at the same time. The tenderest oud fragrance ;o)