Description
The blend of sweet oriental ambers, which is the common base of these fragrances of the “Amber series“, is married to the inebriating indolic Egyptian Jasmine.
A very sweet feminine amber perfume by western standards, but middle eastern men would not shun to wear this fragrance sprung from the tales of a Thousand and one nights.
Darvant –
A simple but at same time multi-nuanced combination which manages to be (despite its minimalism) aristocratic in its variegate articulation and powerfully nostalgic like the music of a French carillon.
Quite great aromatic-floral opening immediately rich of evocative power and full of diverse nuances of floral-pollen, jasmine-nectar, soapiness, toasted coffee, Sambuca, pistachio-creams, taste of creamy liqueurs and boozy artisanal pastries.
Despite being Amber-Jasmine a floral accord the floral element (yet present) is like a ghost merging its substance in the whole “riverbed” of a generally oriental amberish ambience of handmade liquors, sweet confectionery, honey, waxy-heliotropic soaps, royal jelly and almonds.
This genuine Dubrana’s accord conjugates indeed a syrupy (almost candied) redolent jasmine’s presence (which is obsessive as a lost affection) with a sort of anisic-heliotropic-waxy decadent amberish vibe.
The note of amber is in here “multi-veined”, complex, organic, yummy, pastries-taste’s nuanced, honeyed and luxurious.
This floral amber embraces my skin with a childhood’s sweet memory of innocent dreams, happy ceremonies and veritable carefree joy, while elevating higher and higher our senses. There is a sort of victorian soapy atmosphere throughout and a conjured “lost back in a far past” memory of warm Christmas-holidays, rich banquets and happy moments of full dreamy childish life. Average duration of moderate sillage on my skin.