Dixit and Zak Emperor Hind Review + Score All Natural Perfume
by Therapeutic FragranceSCORE: 94
Who? I See Wearing the Fragrance
Jackie Chan
Where? I Use the Fragrance
When? The Season I Use the Fragrance
All Year Long
What? Occasions or Events I Use Fragrance
Special Occasions
Perfumer:
Dixit and Zak
#emperorhind
Price Per Millileter
260 30ML
Perfume Classification
Extrait de Parfum
Projection
2 Feet Or More
/Longevity
10 Hours or more
Sillage
Long Tailed
How? I Apply the Fragrance
one to five sprays
This brought me back to my Oudh Infini review. A blast of in-your-face oud that is not apologizing for what it is. Just being itself in full Beauty and the Beast” mode. There is a blast of Hindi funk that is absolutely stunning. Like a prized fighter after the big one—all roughed up, bleeding, but victorious and something to behold. That’s what this oud is all about.
Now we are getting a clear accord that I have seen in all three perfumes I have tried from Dixit and Zak. There is a fresh, clean layer in all three.
HINDI OUD Let’s Talk:
Onchya Shells: Leather and seamalic scent used in incense making in the East, including heavily in Japan.
Comes from the Red Sea all the way back to the days of Moses. Pretty Cool.
Dixit and Zak do one-off’s. They have messaged me personally and let me know that. We have heard this from other perfumers who later gave in and came up with part twos. I am not for sales tactics that say that to sell out then make more and use the same tactics. Like the “one bottle left” on ETSY to get you to hit that “Add to Cart” button. I am always watching for the hype train.
Alright, back to what this is.
Fragrance in my opinion compared to Perfume’s Notes
We have an oud that complements the composition and is the star of the show. What’s the name, folks? “Emperor Hind.” Hind refers to India, and the River Indus, which flows from Pakistan, but hearing “Hind” will automatically create an association with Hindi oud. So if you’re going to put it in the name, it better showcase it. And oh, Nelly, does it. This is pungent, funky oud for advanced connoisseurs. You’re warned, but it is a perfect pairing against what this opens up with and dries down to.
In the opening, on top of the oud, there is a blast of citrus with lemon, pink grapefruit, and sweet orange forming the citric punch. Pink grapefruit comes across clearly, with a spritz of lemon. Orange helps with the citrus accord and the bright air of the “Dizaide”—see what I did there?
The next note I get very strongly beyond the oud is the patchouli: strong, punchy, and fresh, with champaca as the eye candy. All of this floats in the air with saffron, and this is Dixit and Zak, so you are going to get the best sandalwood the earth has to offer. I get a clear Mysore profile in this, which adds another punch.
Finishing out the heart is another animalic accord that I can only tear apart as the onchya shells, hyraceum, and a urinal civet. The heart sits on a seamalic (seashell animalic) leather. Think light, tan leather with some nice ocean sea shell animalic atmosphere—seriously, it’s there, and it’s fantastic. The leather is coming from the onchya shells; it’s crazy good. Ambergris adds to this phase and can be detected very clearly here (the top was way too powerful to detect any of this).
Alright, we get three clear transitions here. The final one you guessed if you kept up on the notes list: incense. A familiar fresh incense is what you’re left with on the skin for a good four hours. It’s pleasing to all and somehow all of that majesty spoken of before is gone until another spray. The spikenard adds a bit of therapeutic feel to the drydown, a medicinal earthy incense, if you will.
Projection is loud—could even reach past two feet.
Sillage is long tailed; if you walk by someone, they are going to get bliss if they know what’s up.
This will last up to twelve hours, the last four being a soft skin scent on your pillow to wrist, as I like to do.
Overall, this is a well structured perfume using many facets of the old school. A showcase of biblical and hidden Earth ingredients showing us why they are the standard for perfume structure. Dixit and Zak are playing at the next level and are not holding back raw materials from us. KUDOS.
Perfumer's Notes:
Bottle Presentation
| Company: | Dixit & Zak |
|---|---|
| Perfumer: | Dixit and Zak |
| Fragrance Family: | Woody Oriental |
| Classification: | Extrait de Parfum |
| Pricing: | $8.67/fluid ml |
| Country: | INDIA |
| Year: | 2019 |
| Sex: | Masculine |
| Hashtag: | #emperorhind |
| What: | Special Occasions |
| Projection: | 2 Feet Or More |
| Longevity: | 10 Hours or more |
| Sillage: | Long Tailed |
| Short Description: | Pungent punch seamalics w clean citrus & #Dizaide |
| Fragrantica Score: | 4.83 |
Therapeutic Fragrance Score Chart
Emperor Hind
& Price per ML
FRAGRANCE
SCORE: 94
Sp excited for this!!! Also a note, I bought with 2 left. Went to 1 then gone the next day… 2 days later they had 20+ and again now it's gone
It finally says sold out will see if it stays. I have seen it restocked three times now for anyone reading comments. Keep refreshing that site. They pretty much said this won't be re-made. This might be the differentiation between managing the two websites.
And I feel good about it, I let all my Peeps know in enough time to grab this one up.
@Therapeutic Fragrance for sure, they replied to me a few days ago in the facebook that it was a one off as well.
POWER. This time, for REAL. ????????????????
BOOM!!!! Absolutely.
your scent breakdown is spot on!
emperor hind is an instant classic.
dixit and zak deserve more love after those releases , I'll put emperor hind over anything areej and bortnikoff have made this year
Thankyou Sir!
D&Z sold out of this one pretty quick a lot of people haven't even gotten their samples. Antiquity was a good release last year.
I can't find there Etsy shop at all. Can anyone help?
https://www.etsy.com/listing/764485017/emperor-hind-30ml-eau-de-parfum?show_sold_out_detail=1&frs=1
It's been out all morning. Stay tuned here and I will give you response from them when I hear it. Or try the refresh method on there site. Usually they have had it stocked quicker in times past.
Okay I see it back to one, run if you can.
Attar I can recommend is Silsila. This is straight from Zakir on a recommendation as an alternative to Emperor Hind. These are people to get to know. I have three orders with them and my first two are top notch. Everything blew me away. Oud chips for the price I got them. Hindi Tabac out of this world attar with gorgeous tobacco wafts. Brindaban and Rising Mysore are at the top of my collection for what they accomplish as all naturals.
Hey Brandon, I've watched a few of you reruns from early last year. Amazing to see how quickly your following and views is on some kind of positive roll. Wow, what an education you have given me, thank you. I have my 30 mil of 30 million old Amber coming to me tomorrow from Lucky Scents. June 30th, 1906 is ingrained in my memory. I feel like a kid waiting for his first bicycle. Thanks again., I am a believer.
June 30th 1906 is the fossilized Amber added to War and Peace apparently both 1&2. I pick up on this where I became friends with Areej De Dore on Facebook. Btw the Misore Sandalwood is also sold out. I received an abrupt sold out when I asked for another recommendation. I ordered some Civet and must decant from Etsy coming from Canada.
I was drilling for Tigerlust but I spent too much this month on juice. The $795 will have to wait a couple of months sniff sniff.
I hate spell check. Drooling for Tigerlust. Funny. I ordered Russian Summer on the ADD website in Thailand but the bottles came from Medford Massachusetts ? I believe it came from the eBay seller Sealed Scents who I received my decant of E O no 2. Nice website
Thanks for the Ebay heads up. You never know. I've been burned twice.
Keep in mind it is hidden but in the drop down you can get Tigerlust in 9.5 ML with no uncharge. That is pretty unusual, sometimes I see a double charge for decants that small.
Excellent review!
Thanks????
Very good review my brother.
Thanks Brother!
My bottle is on the way, Great video as always. Greetings from Amsterdam
Greeting back from Portland. Nice pickup it seems to be officially sold out now.
I just received my 30ml bottle from India this morning and you are on point 100% in your description. Great job on this.
I got my shipping notice today, I purchased last week. I have only two sprays left in my sample. It's such a a brilliant juice to own. The ingredients and composition are top notch.
@Therapeutic Fragrance I have only 2 sprays on my left wrist from about 4 hours ago, your description is really helping me wrap my head around this. I'd like to see your impressions as well when you receive the bottle if possible. Thanks!
I'll will do a Instagram post when I get a bottle so stay tuned there. This is gone forever so I really don't want to do anything more up here. It will be featured in some lists this year.
Ambergris in, this will bloom over the next few years. It is going to be a beautiful Ambergris dominant perfume. ❤️
Thank-you for adding here. That is very good information. This is the main reason I bought is because I recognize how well this will age and thought of it as a no brainer.