Areej Le Doré

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History of the house

Areej Le Doré was founded in 2017 by Russian Adam, a distiller of Russian origin. The brand was created in the United Kingdom, after which its founder settled in Southeast Asia, where he distills oud. The company was launched from Thailand, where several Western agarwood distillers were already working at the time, and the operational base later moved to Indonesia.

The house is built around a single figure. Russian Adam composes the perfumes and distills the oud in his own distillery. The first oud oils released under his name circulated in the community of oud collectors before the official creation of the brand.

The inaugural collection, released in 2017, gathered three extraits de parfum: Siberian Musk, Oud Zen and Ottoman Empire. A second collection followed in autumn 2017 with Atlantic Ambergris, Inverno Russo, Oud Picante and Flux de Fleur. These first two waves set the axes of the catalog: natural oud, deer musk, ambergris, composed attars, in extrait concentration and in very limited quantities.

In January 2018, the house released a third collection of five perfumes: Russian Musk, Russian Oud, Indolis, Walimah Parfum and Walimah Attar. This delivery consolidated the animalic signature of the house and its close relationship with the Arabic attar tradition. Oud Luwak, distilled from agarwood passed through the digestive system of a civet, was released the same year and fed the experimental reputation of the catalog.

The following years installed a wave-based release rhythm, announced on the social accounts of the house and sold through pre-order. War and Peace was released in 2019, followed by Siberian Musk II, then War and Peace II in 2020. Russian Musk II and Atlantic Ambergris II appeared in 2021. More recent waves include Russian Oud II, Walimah II, Siberian Musk III and The History of Indian Oud, from The History of Oud series, in 2023, then the Arabian Heritage collection, including Al Oud, in 2024. The seventh collection, on sale in 2026, gathers Beauty and The Beast, Ambre de Coco, Mysore Incenza, Malik al Motia, Al Majmua, Gul Hina and Le Mitti, alongside Civet de Nuit, born of a collaboration with Sultan Pasha. The house History page lists the six previous collections, and its attar collections, among the sold-out series.

The structure has remained the same since the founding: the same nose, distribution mainly through pre-order on the official site, series engraved and numbered by hand, and the near absence of synthetic bases in the classic compositions. Areej Le Doré releases its perfumes in successive limited batches, numbered over time as so many "releases" (first, second, seventh wave), each one selling out and giving way to the next.

Notable perfumes

The Areej Le Doré catalog consists of extraits de parfum released in annual waves, completed by pure attars and a few isolated essential oils. The seven references listed below serve as catalog anchors. Numbered versions II or III that revisit these signatures are not listed separately.

Olfactory signature

Areej Le Doré built its identity around a perfumery of rare naturals in extrait concentration. The house works mainly with oud oils distilled on the ground, ambergris tinctures, Siberian deer musk and floral absolutes obtained through maceration. This grammar of materials brings the catalog close to the Arabic attar tradition, transposed into the contemporary form of the alcoholic extrait.

Three axes structure the releases. The first is the oud axis, gathering compositions built around an agarwood distilled by the house, from the dark woody profile to the brighter resinous one. The second is the animalic musk and ambergris axis, where Siberian Musk, Atlantic Ambergris and Russian Musk stand. The third is the attar and Arabic floral axis, illustrated by Walimah, Walimah Attar and The History of Indian Oud.

The signature of the house rests on two principles claimed publicly. First, the concentration of naturals, with minimal use of synthetic bases in the classic compositions. Second, the limited-batch logic, where each bottle is engraved and numbered by hand, and where the pre-order window replaces a continuous distribution.

A house built batch by batch, where each oud distillation and each numbered bottle carries the trace of a single hand.

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