The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
With Love From Oman launched in 2019, composed by perfumer Mahsam Raza as part of The Dua Brand's Inspired Expression collection. The name reads as a postcard. Oman conjures an image of frankincense resin, rose water, and myrrh arranged together on a cloth at a souk stall. Raza built the composition to capture that exact sensory impression: dried tears of resin, the cool sweetness of rose water, the dark warmth of myrrh, all of it sitting side by side the way they would on a vendor's table. The Dua Brand's house approach shows up in the way familiar structures are taken apart and rebuilt with materials that keep the doorway open. This one wears that method lightly. The intent reads clear: an incense-and-rose portrait rendered without ceremony.
Four ingredients. That's the whole composition. Elemi resin, frankincense, myrrh, and rose, each one carrying its own history. The interesting move is the elemi. It sits in the opening, lemony and peppery, giving the first minutes a brightness that the heavier materials alone can't deliver. It bridges the fresh and the dense, holding the door open while the frankincense arrives. Then it melts into the heavier materials as the hours pass. The rose does something structural too. It doesn't float on top like a floral highlight.
The evolution
The first spray arrives sharp. Elemi cuts through, lemony and almost green, like biting into fresh peel while standing next to a censer. Within ten minutes the frankincense takes the wheel, and that brightness dims into something mineral and dry, the smell of cooling ash. The rose shows up early but quietly, hiding inside the resin rather than sitting on top of it. By the thirty-minute mark the composition has found its center: frankincense and rose in equal weight, myrrh underneath adding a bitter sweetness that keeps the whole thing from going too pretty. The middle hours are where this fragrance does its real work. The sillage pulls in, not because it fades but because it settles closer to skin, the way incense does in a room that has been closed for a while. What surprises is the drydown.
Cultural impact
With Love From Oman sits in a recognizable structure: incense and rose held in close conversation, a pairing that shows up across Middle Eastern perfumery in many forms. The Dua Brand's read on it leans into accessibility, which puts it in a different conversation than most luxury houses working in the same territory. Parfumo lists Amouage's Opus XII as a similar fragrance, drawing a direct line between the two compositions. The appeal reads clear for anyone drawn to resin-forward scents: a recognizable incense-and-rose template without the heavier price tag that usually comes attached.
