We have made a small further amount of Ceen available, in response to ongoing requests from collectors who missed the original release under Al Hashimi. We do not currently have a date for any subsequent batches, and there are no plans for one in the foreseeable future.
Ceen is unlike any other Qi Nam extract we have ever encountered, ours or anyone else's. It was crafted by Al Hashimi Labs from only the finest organic Chinese Qi Nam wood, and the resulting oil is genuinely one of a kind.
The opening greets you with a burst of medicinal notes — the sharp, lifted, slightly cool quality that the great Qi Nams have always carried — soon accompanied by a sudden sweetness of toffee and fudge. Then incense arrives, deeply spiritual, the kind of incense smell you encounter once a year at a particular kind of religious observance. And finally, intense florals come forward and remain.
Over the next five to ten minutes, Ceen evolves further. The toffee and fudge persist, joined by molasses, caramel, and milk chocolate. A Siberian musk note adds a touch of animalic warmth that perfectly balances the surrounding sweetness. In the base, the gourmand sweetness remains, but it is grounded by a deep, earthy note that gives the whole composition its weight and longevity.
Every element is in concert. None of it is in argument. We have built oils we are proud of for years; Ceen is one of the very few we describe to ourselves as one of a kind.
China, 2023
Available in a 2.5g bottle
At Kinana, artisanal fragrance means perfumery made by hand, in small batches, by makers who answer to their materials rather than to a production schedule. Where an industrial scent is engineered for consistency and scale — built to smell identical across millions of bottles, to a tightly controlled cost, favouring synthetic bases and standardised accords — an artisanal one is composed with care around genuine naturals and well-chosen isolates, accepting the small variations that come with real ingredients rather than smoothing them away. It favours quality and provenance over yield: real oud rather than an oud-like accord, materials chosen for their character, and compositions given time to rest and mature. Our purpose at Kinana is to bring that craft within reach — fragrance with depth and individuality, revealing itself gradually on the skin and carrying the character of what it was made from, rather than a uniform impression produced at scale.
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