What does Al Ambra Eclipse smell like?
Eclipse starts with sea notes, grapefruit and mandarin orange. Sea notes are aroma molecules that suggest salt water and open air; grapefruit adds a bitter freshness and mandarin a softer, sweeter citrus.
The heart is short: bay leaf and jasmine, an aromatic green leaf beside a white flower. In the base the scent turns earthy. Ambergris gives a salty, skin-warm effect that picks up the marine opening, oakmoss recalls a damp forest floor, guaiac wood is lightly smoky and patchouli is dark and earthy. A fresh top over a mossy base is the structure perfumers call a chypre, and the brand files Eclipse under that name with the word aquatic in front.
What Al Ambra says about Eclipse
Al Ambra's own words for Eclipse are fresh, aquatic, citrusy and mossy. The brand places it in spring and summer and names daily wear, the office and casual outings. Its page gives the projection as moderate.
Who is Al Ambra Eclipse for?
Eclipse is a men's scent in Al Ambra's title, and the details block repeats it. Going by the notes, it will suit someone who wants a marine opening that ends somewhere darker: oakmoss, guaiac wood and patchouli make the base earthy and a little smoky. The bitterness of grapefruit is there for those who enjoy it, and bay leaf is the one herb named. Jasmine is the only flower, so those who avoid florals have little to fear.
Al Ambra Eclipse Extrait de Parfum, 100 ml: size and concentration
The brand sells Eclipse in one bottle: 100 ml, 3.4 fl oz, extrait de parfum. Among the Al Ambra scents in this guide that combination is the least common of the three formats, with 9 scents against 19 extraits in 50 ml and 21 eaux de parfum in 100 ml. Moderate is the brand's label for the oil richness, French-inspired its label for the blend.
Al Ambra Eclipse compared with its closest siblings
Eclipse and Lenard are both 100 ml men's scents with moss in them: jasmine, ambergris, oakmoss and patchouli are on both lists. Lenard is the eau de parfum. Its fruit is bergamot, apple, pineapple and blackcurrant, and it adds birch, juniper berries, musk and vanilla. Eclipse is the extrait de parfum. Its top is sea notes, grapefruit and mandarin, with bay leaf and guaiac wood further down. Sweet fruit and vanilla on one side, salt water and citrus on the other.
Because Tysir has the same twelve named notes as Lenard, it stands in the same relation to Eclipse: four notes are shared and everything else differs. One point is worth adding. Neither Tysir nor Lenard names a marine note, and their only citrus is bergamot, so Eclipse is the one of the three with sea notes and grapefruit on its list. Tysir is an eau de parfum for men in 100 ml.
Aurora is titled for women and Eclipse for men, yet both are 100 ml extraits de parfum that the brand files as chypres, with jasmine, oakmoss and patchouli in common. Aurora opens with strawberry, cherry and black currant and has violet, musk and vanilla. Eclipse opens with sea notes, grapefruit and mandarin and has bay leaf, ambergris and guaiac wood. One moss base, then, under red fruit in Aurora and under sea air in Eclipse.
Where to buy Al Ambra Eclipse in Europe
Looking for Eclipse in Europe leads, for the moment, to a request and not to a checkout. FragranceGems, an independent reseller, has not added it. Through the button below you can ask the shop to; the form is a way of counting interest, it places no order and carries no promise. Two scents the shop sells touch Eclipse at one end each. Black Forest shares the grapefruit of the top and pairs it with ambroxan, a molecule modelled on ambergris, which Eclipse names in its base. Black Forest Elixir shares mandarin and patchouli.
Request Eclipse at FragranceGemsA request is not an order, and it is no promise that the shop will add the scent.
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