Samam IV Agarwood

IV Agarwood EDP by Samam The Fourth Element

IV Agarwood EDP is a dark, commanding, and deeply elemental creation from the niche house of Samam. An Oriental Woody unisex fragrance, IV Agarwood the fourth composition in Samam’s exclusive quartet alongside XII Mambo, XC The Night and V Flora is the collection’s darkest and most powerful piece: passionfruit, saffron and Turkish rose at the opening, a heart of rich agarwood and dark ebony wood, and a base of amber, fir balsam and musk that anchors the composition with a warm, resinous, lasting authority. This is a fragrance built around one of the world’s most ancient and most prized ingredients, and it makes no apology for its depth.

The Scent Journey

• Top Notes: Passionfruit, Saffron and Turkish Rose. A vivid, golden, and immediately captivating opening of extraordinary contrast. Passionfruit tropical and slightly tart, adding a bright, exotic fruitiness that is the most unexpected and most inspired note in the opening, saffron golden and slightly leathery, adding an immediate depth and warmth that bridges the bright fruit and the dark heart to come, and Turkish rose grown in the famous Rose Valley of Kazanlak, rich, velvety, and deeply honeyed adding a full-bloomed floral warmth that gives the opening a beauty and sensuality that is entirely distinctive. Together, an opening of genuine, luminous richness that makes the darkness of the agarwood heart all the more compelling by contrast.
• Middle Notes: Agarwood and Ebony Wood. A dark, commanding, and deeply elemental heart of two woods in powerful, perfectly matched harmony. Agarwood oud, one of the most ancient, rare, and prized ingredients in all of perfumery, with its distinctive dark, resinous, slightly smoky and animalic character is the undisputed star of the composition, present and commanding from the heart through to the base. Ebony wood one of the densest and darkest woods in the world, with a cool, slightly bitter, deeply austere woody character deepens the agarwood with a darkness and structural precision that gives the heart a genuine, rare beauty. Together, a heart of pure, unapologetic woody grandeur.
• Base Notes: Amber, Fir Balsam and Musk. A warm, resinous, and deeply lasting drydown that softens the darkness of the agarwood and ebony heart without diminishing it. Amber golden and resinous, fir balsam the clean, slightly sweet, resinous freshness of the northern forest adding a cool, green, balsamic depth that lifts the amber and gives the base a natural, outdoors quality, and musk leaving a clean, skin-close trail that carries the warmth and darkness of the entire composition for hours.

IV Agarwood is a fragrance of pure, elemental conviction the ebony wood heart note is the masterstroke, a material of such distinctive, cool, austere darkness that it gives the agarwood a precision and depth that it could not achieve alone. The passionfruit opening is the inspired counterpoint: a single note of tropical brightness that makes the descent into the dark agarwood heart feel like a journey rather than an arrival. The fourth element. The darkest one.

Fragrance Details

• House: Samam
• Collection: The Quartet (XII Mambo, XC The Night, V Flora, IV Agarwood)
• Family: Oriental Woody
• Gender: Unisex
• Concentration: Eau de Parfum
• Size: 100ml