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If you fancy Tom Ford’s Black Orchid and are dirt poor, than Nabeel’s Hala Bil Khamis is for you! This is a markedly crude copy of Black Orchid that uses some terrible aromatic ingredients. And somehow, even more feminine and nauseatingly tropical/fruity. It’s missing the heavy truffle and patchouli chord that really makes Black Orchid what it is so Hala Bil Khamis ends up being an overtly sweet tropical fruit soup verging strongly on rotting fruits festering in the scorching sun with swarms of fruit flies and all. You can just smell the blazing sun beating down on a 5 gallon bucket of high fructose corn syrup about to morph into prison made pruno. Hala Bil Khamis is about 15 minutes away from being a full on bath tub full of white lightning sitting at 200°. For real and all joking aside, this concoction is a hair’s width away from turning into drinkable ethanol. Honestly, this is just plain awful. There’s virtually no development and that complex scent pyramid means nothing because it’s just a wall/chemical blob of sweet sweet ‘smell’. It’s just a badly blended mish mash that’s been hastily constructed to make a buck, and the box is obnoxiously hideous to boot. It’s weird the way it’s constructed with the strange little tassels that pull through the lid. And there’s a half assed partial piece of foam glued onto only one side of the box to protect the bottle. So Nabeel thought that only one side of the bottle mattered to be protected? Bizarre. I like also how Nabeel craftily uses specific colors in their marketing strategies to screw with their potential customers where ‘opposites’ seem to be the running theme. If anything, the box and bottle should be neon yellow and pink, not silver and royal blue! Seriously, I gotta stop blind buying, and I’ve really gotta stop buying anything from Nabeel because so far the ratio of wins to losses is looking pretty bleak. So far, this perfume house is utter cheap garbage. I could’ve given that money to the needy to purchase a bottle of Hala Bil Khamis. I’m sitting around a 1:10 wins/losses.
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