What does Al Ambra Jacob smell like?
Jacob lists four spices before it reaches its base. Cardamom and cinnamon are at the top, cool and lemony next to warm and sweet. Saffron and black pepper are in the heart: saffron leathery and slightly bitter, pepper dry and sharp.
The base is tobacco, cedar and patchouli. Tobacco as a perfume note is the smell of the cured leaf, sweet, dry and hay-like. Cedar is a crisp, pencil-like wood and patchouli is earthy and dark. There is no vanilla, amber or musk on the list, so the sweetness comes only from the cinnamon and the tobacco itself. The brand calls the style a classic warm tobacco.
What Al Ambra says about Jacob
Spicy, warm, woody and tobacco are the four words the brand uses. It places Jacob in autumn and winter, at evenings, formal occasions and dinners, and describes the projection as moderate to strong.
Who is Al Ambra Jacob for?
Jacob carries the word men in its product title. What the list offers is spice and dry leaf: cardamom, cinnamon, saffron and black pepper, then tobacco on cedar and patchouli. You will get on with it if you like the smell of a spice drawer and of unlit pipe tobacco, and if you can do without a creamy base. People who find tobacco scents too syrupy may like how plain this one is on paper. The audience line is the brand's; your nose decides.
Al Ambra Jacob Extrait de Parfum, 50 ml: size and concentration
Jacob is one of the 19 extraits de parfum that Al Ambra bottles in 50 ml (1.7 fl oz). No 100 ml version appears on the brand's site. On the brand's page, high is the word for the oil richness and Arabic the word for the blend style. What the term extrait does and does not tell you about a perfume is explained in the extrait de parfum guide.
Al Ambra Jacob compared with its closest siblings
Four of Jacob's seven notes return in Precious Jewel: cardamom, cinnamon, saffron and cedar. Both are 50 ml extraits. The split comes with the other notes. Jacob has black pepper, tobacco and patchouli, which keeps it dry and dark; Precious Jewel has violet leaf, geranium, tuberose and bergamot, which turns the same spices towards green leaves and a white flower. Precious Jewel is listed as unisex, Jacob for men.
Green Forest shares cardamom, cinnamon and patchouli with Jacob, and the format, an extrait in 50 ml. There the resemblance ends. Green Forest surrounds its spices with grapefruit, bergamot, black currant, ginger, citron, vetiver and pink pepper: a citrus scent with spice in it. Jacob has saffron, black pepper, tobacco and cedar and no citrus at all: a spice scent with tobacco under it. The brand's title calls Green Forest unisex.
Jacob and The True Bold are linked by tobacco and cinnamon. The True Bold, an eau de parfum in 100 ml, sweetens and darkens the tobacco with amber, vanilla, oud accords and leather. Jacob, an extrait in 50 ml, leaves all four out and uses cardamom, saffron, black pepper, cedar and patchouli. Both are listed for men. Tobacco with vanilla and oud is the idea of The True Bold; tobacco with pepper and cedar is the idea of Jacob.
Where to buy Al Ambra Jacob in Europe
For Jacob, the answer in Europe starts with a no: FragranceGems, an independent reseller, does not sell it right now. The shop's request page takes wishes for scents like this one. Sending a wish orders nothing and promises nothing. No tobacco note is found among the four Al Ambra scents the shop sells. The nearest by notes are Ravenna, which shares the cinnamon and sets it among citrus, ginger and black tea, and Black Forest Elixir, which shares the patchouli inside a much longer, fruitier list.
Request Jacob at FragranceGemsA request is not an order, and it is no promise that the shop will add the scent.
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