Baklava is one of the few oils in our entire collection that genuinely challenges the pricing framework of the Kinana range. By rights — by the calculus that other vendors apply to oils of this provenance, age, and rarity — it should command well over a thousand dollars. It is wild Khao Yai, a source that is now nearly impossible to find at any quality, and it has been ageing in glass for over thirteen years.
From the dipstick, the most unique and wonderful marzipan note rises out of the oil — the sweet marzipan icing of a particular kind of confectionery work, of a kind we have only encountered a handful of times across two decades of evaluation. It is mesmerising. There is a sugary, almost saccharine sweetness that is at once immediate and deeply layered, and you find yourself returning to the bottle just to confirm that what you smelled the first time was real.
On the skin, that marzipan note continues, joined now by honey melon, tropical guava, banana, and a thread of green jungle running through the heart of the composition. This is not the typical fruity Trat signature. It is something altogether more exotic — a heady, tropical gourmand piece of olfactory work that is simply heavenly.
We have priced Baklava where we have because we have always believed that an oil should be priced to its scent. By that measure, it is our gift to the wearer who knows what to look for. Stock is finite and this material is not coming back.
Khao Yai, Thailand. 2013
Available in a 2.5g bottle only
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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