This gift set marks five years of Asad from Lattafa, pairing the original with its coastal sibling, Asad Zanzibar, for two distinct personalities in one box. Asad Cologne starts spiced and smoky, black pepper, tobacco and pineapple giving way to patchouli, coffee and iris, before moving into vanilla, amber, dry wood, benzoin and labdanum, an oriental woody eau de parfum built for cold weather and evening occasions. Asad Zanzibar Eau de Parfum takes a breezier direction, lavender and black pepper at the top, coconut water, iris and salt through the middle, closing on vanilla and incense for something closer to an aquatic gourmand suited to warmer days.
Together, the set gives a household two properly different moods to reach for depending on season, a practical gift rather than a novelty. Anyone shopping for a fragrance loving man will get noticeably different scents from this set rather than two near identical fragrances wearing different labels.