What does Al Ambra Catch You Back smell like?
Catch You Back opens with saffron, suede and mineral notes. Suede is the soft version of a leather note, velvety and without much smoke; saffron is leathery and slightly bitter; mineral notes suggest cool stone.
The heart is violet leaf and mandarin. Violet leaf is green and watery, quite unlike the powdery violet flower, and mandarin is a soft citrus. Finding osmanthus in the base is uncommon, because flowers usually sit higher in a pyramid. It has an apricot and suede character, so it brings the scent back to where it started. Soft woods finish the list. The brand calls the style a modern suede leather.
What Al Ambra says about Catch You Back
The brand describes the direction as warm, leathery and softly floral. Autumn and winter are its seasons for Catch You Back, evenings, formal occasions and events its occasions, and moderate its word for the projection.
Who is Al Ambra Catch You Back for?
On the brand's website the title of Catch You Back says men and the details block below it says unisex. Take the wider of the two if you like; a title is a suggestion. The notes will appeal to people who want leather without the smoke, since the list names suede and not leather, and to people who like a green, watery heart, which violet leaf provides. Osmanthus adds a fruit tone for those who find leather scents too dry.
Al Ambra Catch You Back Extrait de Parfum, 50 ml: size and concentration
Fifty millilitres, or 1.7 fl oz, is the only size of Catch You Back, and the type is extrait de parfum, as it is for all 19 of the 50 ml bottles in this guide. The brand puts the oil richness at moderate to high and calls the blend a hybrid: French-inspired with an Arabic or niche influence.
Al Ambra Catch You Back compared with its closest siblings
Saffron and violet leaf appear together in Precious Jewel as well. Both scents are 50 ml extraits de parfum; Precious Jewel is unisex in its title. It takes the pair towards spice and flower, with cardamom, cinnamon, geranium, cedarwood, tuberose and bergamot. Catch You Back takes it towards leather, with suede, mineral notes, mandarin and osmanthus. So the choice is between a spicy floral and a suede scent that happen to share a green leaf and a bitter spice.
The Spark works with the same flower. A 50 ml unisex extrait de parfum, it names just two notes, leather and osmanthus. Catch You Back also has osmanthus, but uses suede where The Spark uses leather, and adds saffron, mineral notes, violet leaf and mandarin. In perfumery suede is the gentler, less smoky relative of a leather note. The Spark is therefore the plainer and drier list, Catch You Back the softer and more detailed one.
Only saffron links Catch You Back to Jacob. Jacob is a 50 ml extrait de parfum for men with three more spices, cardamom, cinnamon and black pepper, plus tobacco, cedar and patchouli. It names no leather and no flower. Catch You Back has one spice, one citrus fruit, one leaf and one flower around its suede and mineral notes. Someone who wants warmth from spice and tobacco should read about Jacob; someone who wants it from suede should stay here.
Where to buy Al Ambra Catch You Back in Europe
If you came looking for a shop page, there is none: FragranceGems, an independent reseller, does not offer Catch You Back yet. Its request page, behind the button below, collects the names of scents that customers ask for. Adding yours is free of obligation on both sides; you order nothing and the shop promises nothing. The four Al Ambra scents it sells contain no suede, saffron or osmanthus. The single shared note is mandarin, which both Dubai Musk and Black Forest Elixir list. Dubai Musk sets it beside magnolia and musk, Black Forest Elixir beside vetiver, patchouli and vanilla.
Request Catch You Back at FragranceGemsA request is not an order, and it is no promise that the shop will add the scent.
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