As-Suli's Diamond
Mind Games As-Suli's Diamond Extrait de Parfum
Fig leaf, mandarin Madagascar, bergamot, ylang-ylang Madagascar, broom flower, tonka bean, incense, opoponax, amberwood, and myrrh — the Artisan Collection's most Middle Eastern-coded and most resinous composition, created by the legendary perfumer Annick Menardo: an exotic, smoky, fruity-floral-incense that earns "an intricate composition with substantial sillage and up to 10 hours of longevity" from its most devoted reviewers and "this takes you on a journey to an exotic place and time" from the house itself.
"As-Suli" was a 10th-century master chess player in the Abbasid Caliphate, considered the greatest of his age. His "diamond" was a specific endgame puzzle that stumped chess masters for centuries. The fragrance built around his legend is the collection's most explicitly Middle Eastern and most resinously ambitious composition — Annick Menardo, whose career credits include Lolita Lempicka (the defining iris-violet gourmand of the 1990s), chose fig leaf, ylang-ylang, and broom flower as the floral-fruity bridge over a resinous base of incense, opoponax, and myrrh.
The fig leaf and mandarin orange opening is simultaneously fruity and slightly sharp — the fig leaf providing green, slightly milky sharpness; Madagascar mandarin adding warm citrus sweetness; bergamot contributing clean brightness. Ylang-ylang arrives in the heart as the composition's most dramatically polarizing note: warm, slightly tropical, and narcotic in the specific way of quality ylang-ylang that has been properly sourced from Madagascar — the world's premium ylang-ylang origin. Broom flower adds slightly smoky, slightly honey-adjacent depth. Tonka bean provides warm sweetness. The incense, opoponax, and myrrh base is the composition's most ambitious and most rewarding chapter: opoponax (sweet myrrh) is warm, balsamic, and slightly sweet; incense is sacred rather than harsh; myrrh adds resinous depth. The combination earns "extraordinarily mystical scent profile of the Near East" and "10 hours of longevity" from Parfumo's most experienced reviewer.
🔺 The Scent Pyramid
Top Notes (0–20 min) Fig Leaf · Mandarin Madagascar · Bergamot
The opening is fruity-green and immediately unusual. Fig leaf sharpness alongside warm mandarin.
Heart Notes (20 min–2 hrs) Ylang-Ylang Madagascar · Broom Flower · Tonka Bean
Ylang-ylang is the composition's most distinctive material — warm, narcotic, and deeply polarizing. Broom flower adds slightly smoky warmth. Tonka bean provides sweet depth.
Base Notes (2 hrs and beyond) Incense · Opoponax · Amberwood · Myrrh
The base is the composition's most ambitious chapter — warm, balsamic, resinous, and genuinely Middle Eastern in character. Opoponax is sweet myrrh. Incense is sacred and warm. Myrrh adds depth. Longevity: up to 10 hours; good sillage.
What it smells like on skin:
The fig-mandarin opening is fruity and slightly sharp. Ylang-ylang transforms the heart into a warm, slightly narcotic-floral character. The opoponax-incense-myrrh base is the most richly resinous and most deeply beautiful chapter. Fall and winter; evenings; for collectors who want the house's most explicitly Middle Eastern and most resinously ambitious entry.
Why Collectors Keep Reaching For It:
🔮 Fig leaf, ylang-ylang, opoponax, incense, and myrrh — the Artisan Collection composition by Annick Menardo that earns "an extraordinary and mystical scent profile of the Near East" from experienced niche reviewers: the most explicitly Middle Eastern-coded, most resinously ambitious, and most genuinely unusual composition in the Mind Games founding collection
🌙 "An intricate composition with substantial sillage and up to 10 hours of longevity, where warm resinous elements in affinity with the exotic flowers create an extraordinary and mystical scent profile" — the reviewer's summary that earns As-Suli's Diamond its most distinguished placement in the collection's performance hierarchy.
🔍 Authenticated and independently sourced. Same Mind Games extrait. Below retail.
💸 Below retail on the most resinously ambitious and most Middle Eastern-coded composition in the Mind Games Artisan Collection — As-Suli's Diamond at below-retail pricing makes Annick Menardo's exotic incense-opoponax-myrrh accessible.
⚡ Fall and winter evenings — not blind-buy safe — ylang-ylang is the decisive factor
Who actually buys this: Oriental and Middle Eastern fragrance devotees who want Annick Menardo's resinous-floral-incense interpretation in the Mind Games context. Collectors who've worked through the Artisan Collection and find the opoponax-myrrh base of As-Suli's Diamond the most genuinely distinctive entry. Anyone who finds "extraordinary and mystical scent profile of the Near East" an accurate description of what they want to wear.
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Longevity, skin chemistry, the collector's take, and how we authenticate.
Mind Games As-Suli's Diamond is a refined unisex composition with significant complexity and luxurious character. The composition reads sophisticated and slightly mysterious — designed for evening wear and special occasions.
Strong evening unisex with significant character for collectors evaluating Mind Games' premium offerings.
Performance & Wear Guide
- Longevity: 10–12 hours on skin.
- Projection: Strong in the first hour, settling to moderate by hour 3. Projects confidently without being aggressive.
- Sillage: Moderate to strong. Expect a noticeable trail in the first half of the wearing.
- Best Seasons: Fall and winter. Too heavy for warm weather unless applied very conservatively.
- Occasions: Evening events, formal occasions, cool-weather wear. Not for daytime summer office use.
- Application Tips: 2 sprays maximum. Oud amplifies on body heat. Chest application works better than wrists for darker fragrances of this type.
- Dry-Down Arc: Spicy opening transitions to an oud/amber heart by 30–45 minutes. The dry-down settles to a warm resinous base that persists for hours.
All Mind Games inventory at Aromatick arrives as a sealed retail or tester package sourced through authenticated channels. Bottle construction, batch markings, weight, and seal integrity are verified against Mind Games's published production standards before the product enters the catalog.
What you receive is a genuine, factory-sealed Mind Games fragrance — the same juice that ships from any authorized retailer, at below-boutique pricing.
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