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About This Scent
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- Top notes
- Osmanthus
- Heart notes
- Tuberose
- Base notes
- Vanilla, Amber, Patchouli
- Longevity
- Very Long Lasting
- Sillage
- Strong
- Brand
- Al Haramain
Al Haramain Zahara Amber Dubai Extrait de Parfum 100ml is a five material composition, and that is the first thing to say about it.
Short compositions behave differently from long ones. There is no slow unfolding here and no second act to wait for, so what you smell at ten minutes is broadly what you will smell at four hours, only quieter. Some people much prefer that, because it is legible and never surprises you. Others find it plain. It is worth knowing which you are before you spend.
Osmanthus opens it, and it is the most interesting thing in the bottle. Osmanthus is an apricot scented flower with a dry, leathery undertone, which gives the top a soft fruitiness quite unlike a straightforward fruit. Tuberose follows, creamy and thick and faintly green, the material that supplies most of the volume. Then vanilla, amber and patchouli finish it, sweet, resinous and earthy respectively, and they stay that way for the rest of the wearing.
Extrait concentration gives it a heavy oil load, so despite the short material list it lasts and lasts. Projection is moderate after the first half hour and the trail is warm and quite sweet. Cooler months suit it, evenings more than daytime, and it reads as feminine. A hundred millilitres at extrait strength is a great deal of fragrance for the money, and that, rather than any complexity in the composition, is the practical argument for buying it.
This house has made perfume since 1970, beginning in Makkah and Madinah under Kazi Abdul Haque and growing under his son, Mohammed Mahtabur Rahman, into a company that produces what it sells and sells it across the Gulf.
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