The house
Named for the sands.
Rimala is a house of nineteen extraits named for the desert, made in the UAE by Al Jaaf Perfumes — a manufacturer since 2008 that builds fragrance for other people's brands and, occasionally, for its own.
Rimala comes from رِمَال — sands. Every scent in the collection is named for something the desert does rather than something it contains: hajeer, the midday heat; sarab, the mirage; athar, the trace a walker leaves behind. The name is written first, in gold, and the perfume is built to it.
Every Rimala is an extrait de parfum at 55 ml — the highest oil load we run. It is why a mid-range price buys a scent that lasts a working day, and why the openings are short: extraits do not shout at the top, they settle.
Each Rimala is built around a note structure inspired by a fragrance many people already know and love, listed openly on every product page and printed inside every box. They are our own compositions, made with our own materials, sold under our own name — not copies, not counterfeits, and never sold as the original.
Blended, macerated, filled and boxed in Al Jaaf's own facility in the UAE. The same benches, the same perfumers and the same quality control that run our private-label contracts for other houses.
The group
Part of Al Jaaf
Al Jaaf builds perfume brands for founders and distributors, scents commercial spaces through Scent of Lumora, and runs houses of its own — Pixel Perfumes in niche, Rimala in everyday, and the K Prime perfume studio at Cityland Mall, Dubai.
What goes in
Resin, wood and a little saffron.
Frankincense and oud, rose absolute and saffron, vanilla from Madagascar. Extrait concentration means more of them and less of everything else, which is why a Rimala sits close to the skin and stays there.
Where it comes from
Nineteen names for one landscape.
Hajeer is the midday heat. Sarab is the mirage. Athar is the trace a walker leaves behind. Each name was chosen first, and the perfume built to it.