Bint El Sud green head

Bint El Sudan is the African No. 1 bestseller perfume. Known on the African continent as the love and spirituality scent 12ml.

Bint el Sudan, known for nearly a century as the “Chanel No. 5” of Africa and once the best-selling perfume in the world, is known for its musky fragrance and oil, rather than alcohol base, which made the scent popular with Muslims.

Bint el Sudan means “Daughter of Sudan” and a girl wearing the traditional topless garb of 1920s Sudan appears on the label.

Most of the fragrance – about seven million small 12-mililiters bottles a year – is produced by a dozen workers from inside a larger, ultra-secure bunker of a factory that also manufactures pesticides, detergents and disinfectants.