Nilafar du Nil
Egyptian perfumery, reimagined along the Nile.
Nilafar du Nil is an Egyptian niche house founded in November 2019 in Cairo by AbdelFattah Nassar and Waseem Daaboul, under joint Egyptian–Syrian ownership. The name nods to nilufer, the lotus of ancient Arabic, and the project sets out to reframe Egyptian perfumery using both contemporary techniques and motifs drawn from the Nile, the desert and the country's pharaonic past. The house works with a wide bench of European perfumers — among them Dominique Ropion, Paul Guerlain, Arnaud Fourré and Patrizia Cezza — who interpret regional materials such as frankincense, blue lotus and oud through a French structural sensibility. Compositions tend toward generous orientals and resinous florals rather than minimalist niche, and the bottles lean ornamental. Nilafar suits collectors curious about North African fragrance traditions filtered through current artistic perfumery.
Releases
DNA over time
Each column is an era. Each colored band shows that family’s share of accord weight across every perfume the house released in that window. Bigger band = the house leaned harder on that family.
