Alhambra Bakhoor

It is an interpretation of the recreational use given to Bakhoor in al-Andalus, relating it to intimate evenings where the presence of Bacchic poetry and wine gave it connotations full of sensuality and opposed to those of a mystical or sanitary type, with which Bakhoor was associated at that time in the daily Muslim life of the Middle East and which lasts to this day.

Alhambra Bakhoor is a way of illustrating how Andalusian Muslim society enjoyed freedoms that were unthinkable for Muslims in the caliphates of Damascus and Baghdad. Bacchic poetry (Jamriyya) was a sophisticated lyrical genre cultivated in Nasrid Granada (13th-15th centuries) dedicated to the celebration of wine, hedonistic pleasure, eroticism, and nature, often associated with mystical or courtly intoxication despite the religious restrictions of Islam. This poetry, which often combined eroticism and descriptions of nature, was central to literary and courtly gatherings. Jamriyya was cultivated since antiquity (Anacreontic poetry) and flourished in Arabic and Andalusian literature with figures like Abu Nuwas, in a quest to extol the art of pouring wine, taverns, and the evasion of social norms.

Top notes: Red wine accord, anise, almond; Middle notes: Saffron, rose, clove, blackcurrant, human skin accord; Base notes: Oud, musk, amber accord, frankincense.

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