Rasasi’s ‘Romance’ is a sickly sweet, headache-inducing fruity-floral. It reminds me of a cross between ‘Anais Anais’ and ‘Lou Lou’. It has no class, so screeches like Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady whilst she’s still a basic-bitch flower girl, before she’s tutored on how to conduct herself as a lady and rein-in the crass horror of unrefinement.

I understand why this was the Arabian perfumers attempt at a western fragrance. Think about being trapped in a lift with a hen party - the loutish, over-zealous noise, the adornment of L-plates, penis straws, poorly contoured melting makeup, stale alcohol breath and cloying generic western perfume. That’s the scent of an unruly western lady in the eyes of the Arabians. And that generic fragrance is perfectly captured in Rasasi’s ‘Romance’.

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TOP - Hyacinth, Galbanum, Ylang-Ylang, Apricot, Raspberry, Peach

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MIDDLE – Rose, Jasmine

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BASE - Amber, Musk, Powdery Notes, Cedar, Sandalwood