For now Scents of Arabia is a small perfume business offering samples and decants of selected fabolous arabian perfumes. Welcome and enjoy...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
The first offerings
Salam alaikum and good evening,
the time has come! :)
The first offers are placed on this blog.
Check out the listings in the headline.
The first offers include perfume decants from Al Qurashi and Arabian Oud. And there are two experiment boxes from Ajmal and Amouage!
For any questions or needed informations do not hesitate to contact me.
Am still working on further offerings.
So stay tuned in the next days.
the time has come! :)
The first offers are placed on this blog.
Check out the listings in the headline.
The first offers include perfume decants from Al Qurashi and Arabian Oud. And there are two experiment boxes from Ajmal and Amouage!
For any questions or needed informations do not hesitate to contact me.
Am still working on further offerings.
So stay tuned in the next days.
Monday, May 9, 2011
Scents-of-Arabia Going Commercial
Salam alaikum and good evening,
here comes the next step for this blog - it's going commercial.
My perfume business plans couldn't been realized as planned and I stopped it for now. My main profession is now in a completely different field but I just have to much fun with perfumes to give it up completely.
So here will start a small perfume business as a side job.
In the near future I will offer you the possibility to order SAMPLES and DECANTS of the perfumes I am reviewing on this blog in different sizes.
In the beginning I will offer shipment throughout Europe and the USA.
For my readers and other interested parties it will be a good chance to test these perfumes as well to buy decants of perfumes which are not easily available. Another benefit of buying perfume as a decant is, to save money and not to be forced to buy big bottles which are never finishing.
For all further information stay tuned as the first offers will start very soon!
here comes the next step for this blog - it's going commercial.
My perfume business plans couldn't been realized as planned and I stopped it for now. My main profession is now in a completely different field but I just have to much fun with perfumes to give it up completely.
So here will start a small perfume business as a side job.
In the near future I will offer you the possibility to order SAMPLES and DECANTS of the perfumes I am reviewing on this blog in different sizes.
In the beginning I will offer shipment throughout Europe and the USA.
For my readers and other interested parties it will be a good chance to test these perfumes as well to buy decants of perfumes which are not easily available. Another benefit of buying perfume as a decant is, to save money and not to be forced to buy big bottles which are never finishing.
For all further information stay tuned as the first offers will start very soon!
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Shipping perfume from the United Arab Emirates
Does anyone knows anything about the shipment regulations concerning perfume or other liquids in the UAE?
I wanted to order some perfume and body care products from Emirates Palace which I liked a lot during my stay there. The products are made by Amouage customized exclusively for Emirates Palace so they are not available on the free market.
The lady from Guest Relations Management checked several times with several couriers but no one could guarantee that the goods would pass security control at the airport concerning safety regulations.
The same problem I had last year as a friend of mine wanted to send me some perfume from Saudi Arabia. It actually didn't pass the security control.
It's annoying and somehow weird to me : S
I wanted to order some perfume and body care products from Emirates Palace which I liked a lot during my stay there. The products are made by Amouage customized exclusively for Emirates Palace so they are not available on the free market.
The lady from Guest Relations Management checked several times with several couriers but no one could guarantee that the goods would pass security control at the airport concerning safety regulations.
The same problem I had last year as a friend of mine wanted to send me some perfume from Saudi Arabia. It actually didn't pass the security control.
It's annoying and somehow weird to me : S
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Al Hareem by Yas ..The Royal Name of Perfumes
Yas..The Royal Name of Perfumes is an Emirati company that was established in the early 1999. The name Yas was derived from the name of the Bani Yas, one of the most prestigious and highly respected tribes in Arabian Peninsula. The Bani Yas consists of about 20 subsections. Both of the royal families, the Al Nahyan and the Al Maktum, are descended from this significant tribe.
All YAS Perfumes outlets have been given a magnificent corporate look fitted with an amazing design in Italian Marble and Rich Mahogany throughout each store.
In addition, YAS Perfumes is characterized by the manufacturing of outstanding high quality Arabian Perfumes which are made from a mixture of exquisite top quality natural products presented in luxurious crystal bottles.
Yas as a comparatively young perfume house established about 30 outlets arround the Arabian Peninsula but the most in the UAE which is comparatively not much. They are not that present as other houses. Also the degree of brand awareness seems not to be too high. Untill now I could not find one online offer of Yas Perfumes nor a perfume review.
Interesting is that Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi as one of the most expensive hotels offers an ultra-luxury once in a lifetime all-out package with a hefty value of 1,000,000 US Dollars in which one of the 12 including points is to make your own perfume with experts from Yas Perfumes. So if you don't know how to spend a million dollar on your vacation here the complete offer ;-D. It is something like All-Inclusive for the rich, unimaginatives ones.
But the fact speaks for itself that of all perfume houses Yas has been chosen by Emirates Palace though I think there are better ones which has could been chosen.
So let's take Al Hareem to pieces.
On their website, Yas titles it: "Al Hareem Men" with following description:
"Another floral perfume of Yas collection. Al Hareem is a symbol of truly elegance and luxury. Fresh distinctive fragrance that suits men of different ages."
I have a completely different impression of Al Hareem! First I don't see it as a men's fragrance at all but unisex. For some of you who know me, know that in my opinion a men's perfume can almost never be just for men. For me every men's perfume is unisex as long as it doesn't smell completely like an after-shave.
But this one is really not masculine.
I also don't declare this fragrance as floral, though it has a floral heart note but different floral as I use to know. Maybe out of the reason that I didn't smell any Lavendar perfumes in the past. As I couldn't find anywhere the selected ingridients of Al Hareem I have to tell you what I am smelling:
Top Notes: Vanilla, Sandlewood
Heart Notes: Lavender, Sandlewood, Musk
Base Notes: Sandlewood, Musk
It is indeed a distinctive fragrance, very exceptional. There is no sweetness but a very pleasant bitterness, very warm, deep and powerfull. It is an arabian spray perfume with an oily touch and lasts very long quite like a pure oil.
Al Hareem was one of my first arabian perfumes and will always be special for me.
All YAS Perfumes outlets have been given a magnificent corporate look fitted with an amazing design in Italian Marble and Rich Mahogany throughout each store.
In addition, YAS Perfumes is characterized by the manufacturing of outstanding high quality Arabian Perfumes which are made from a mixture of exquisite top quality natural products presented in luxurious crystal bottles.
Yas as a comparatively young perfume house established about 30 outlets arround the Arabian Peninsula but the most in the UAE which is comparatively not much. They are not that present as other houses. Also the degree of brand awareness seems not to be too high. Untill now I could not find one online offer of Yas Perfumes nor a perfume review.
Interesting is that Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi as one of the most expensive hotels offers an ultra-luxury once in a lifetime all-out package with a hefty value of 1,000,000 US Dollars in which one of the 12 including points is to make your own perfume with experts from Yas Perfumes. So if you don't know how to spend a million dollar on your vacation here the complete offer ;-D. It is something like All-Inclusive for the rich, unimaginatives ones.
But the fact speaks for itself that of all perfume houses Yas has been chosen by Emirates Palace though I think there are better ones which has could been chosen.
So let's take Al Hareem to pieces.
On their website, Yas titles it: "Al Hareem Men" with following description:
"Another floral perfume of Yas collection. Al Hareem is a symbol of truly elegance and luxury. Fresh distinctive fragrance that suits men of different ages."
I have a completely different impression of Al Hareem! First I don't see it as a men's fragrance at all but unisex. For some of you who know me, know that in my opinion a men's perfume can almost never be just for men. For me every men's perfume is unisex as long as it doesn't smell completely like an after-shave.
But this one is really not masculine.
I also don't declare this fragrance as floral, though it has a floral heart note but different floral as I use to know. Maybe out of the reason that I didn't smell any Lavendar perfumes in the past. As I couldn't find anywhere the selected ingridients of Al Hareem I have to tell you what I am smelling:
Top Notes: Vanilla, Sandlewood
Heart Notes: Lavender, Sandlewood, Musk
Base Notes: Sandlewood, Musk
It is indeed a distinctive fragrance, very exceptional. There is no sweetness but a very pleasant bitterness, very warm, deep and powerfull. It is an arabian spray perfume with an oily touch and lasts very long quite like a pure oil.
Al Hareem was one of my first arabian perfumes and will always be special for me.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Inspiration Award
(Thank and link back to the person that awarded this to you)
Thanks to Blue Pearl, one of the dearest and most inspirational bloggers herself. I feel flattered and of course happy, who doesn't wish to be an inspiration ;-) Happy espacially because I am finding inspiration in my scented little world and so it is even more beautifull to inspire others too.
(Link posts by you and fellow bloggers that YOU find inspirational)
The bloggers I have choosen are generally inspirational to me so take a look to discover. As for myself I am generally inspirational too :P
(Give the award to 10 fellow bloggers)
The ten bloggers I have chosen are inspirational in different ways, each of them in an unique way:
Saturday, April 2, 2011
L'Eau d'Issey - my personal splash and all-time love
For me it was somewhen in the late 90ies, when I discovered L'Eau d'Issey. Actually I do not remember exactly when it was, the important thing for me is, its beauty and importance is still the same as back then.
Even now when I am writing about it, I have the smell in my nose! Or is it my head? Where do we memorize scents? I have read so many times that it is not possible to memorize smells and here I disagree completetly, at least for myself.
Top Notes: Lotus, Freesia, Cyclamen, Rose Water
Heart Notes: Carnation, White Lilies, Fresh Peonies
Base Notes: Musk, Amberseed, Tuberose, Osmanthos, Sandlewood, Cedarwood
Obviously it is a very complex fragrance and so it is full of contrast as well. On one hand it is an aquatic scent, on the other flowery. It is completely fresh but also woody. But woody as nothing else comparable, because all the warmth of the woods is cooling given to the aquatic dominance.
I have read many reviews on L'Eau d'Issey and it is amazing how different the impressions are. The descriptions are going from finding it from too powerfull to almost too weak, oriental?, too aquatic even reminding of funeral wreath?. The funeral wreath as a description made me confused, it sounds so sad and I disagree, but have to admit there is something melancholic about this scent. But melancholie doesn't have to be sad necessarily?!
Considering that this is a scent which depends on skin chemistry like no other, not everyone has the luck to get the gorgeousness of it.
For myself L'Eau d'Issey activates several feelings and pictures. There is this natural beauteosness reminding me of beautifull, exotic watterfalls, then also there is the melancholy I mentioned but also a very powerfull feeling reminding me on the splashs while exercising during my swim practice.
Since today is the first really warm and sunny day here and a starting signal for my favorite season it is a good occasion to take a spray of L'Eau d'Issey, pack my picknick-blanket and go for some daydreaming of waterfalls and lotus flowers in the green countryside ;-)
Which perfume is your all-time love or activate special feelings?
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