Since olden days, Kuwaiti ships were trading through the Arabian gulf harbors, navigating through Arabian Sea and reaching out to India and East Africa.

They were dealing with all kind of goods, and perfumes were one of them, it was imported from India. Late Mr. Abdullah Dakheel Al–Shaya who was one of the pioneers in the perfumes field opened the first shop in Al Mubarakiya market of Kuwait in 1928.

At that time Al Mubarakiya market was the prestigious place in town. The shop called "Al-Shaya Perfumes". Late Mr. Abdullah imported the perfumes such as Oud, Rose, Amber, Sandal and all related kinds of oriental perfumes from India. He insisted on trusted deals and good business relationship with his customers and suppliers, which build up good reputation and set up a well-established firm for Al- Shaya Perfumes.

AL-Shaya Perfumes now has more than 55 shops in Kuwait. Also it extended their activities to cover most of the Arabian Gulf States and South Africa by 20 shop to reach in total 75 shops.

The determination of AL-Shaya Perfumes to provide their customers the best quality lead them to approach ISO and got ISO 9001:2000 Certification in May 2006.