Ajmal Perfumes has been making the UAE and the world smell good for 75 years. The late Haji Ajmal Ali, previously a farmer by trade, started the business in 1951 in Mumbai. Ajmal Ali soon saw the opportunity to expand in the early years of the UAE and opened Ajmal’s first shop in Murshid Bazaar in Dubai in 1976. Abdulla Ajmal, the grandson of the company’s founder has been steering the family business as CEO since 2023, a business that has now grown into a international fragrance powerhouse that exports to over 45 countries worldwide with a portfolio of over 300 scents, 240 and shops.