What does Al Ambra Paradise Valley smell like?
Paradise Valley opens with pineapple, red berries and apple, plus light spices that the brand leaves unnamed. Pineapple and apple are both rebuilt notes, since no oil can be taken from either fruit: one tropical and sweet, the other crisp.
The heart is a bouquet of three flowers. Rose and jasmine are the classic pair, and magnolia adds a creamy petal with a lemony freshness. The base is the fullest part of the pyramid: vanilla, amber and musk for warmth, then cashmere wood, a soft musky wood molecule, and cedar, which is dry. The brand's own label for the result is a floral amber.
What Al Ambra says about Paradise Valley
Al Ambra's direction for Paradise Valley is sweet, fruity, floral and amber. It names no season, only occasions: special occasions, evening wear and events. The brand gives the projection as moderate to strong.
Who is Al Ambra Paradise Valley for?
Start with the label: the product title of Paradise Valley says women. Going by the notes, it is for someone who wants fruit and flowers in one bottle, with pineapple and apple for a juicy start and rose, jasmine and magnolia for a full bouquet. If you avoid sweet perfumes, the vanilla and amber in the base are a reason to hesitate. If most fruity florals feel too thin to you, cashmere wood and cedar give this one a woody floor.
Al Ambra Paradise Valley Extrait de Parfum, 50 ml: size and concentration
Paradise Valley is an extrait de parfum in a 50 ml bottle, which is 1.7 fl oz, and the brand lists no other size. Of the 49 scents in this guide, 19 are extraits in 50 ml; every 50 ml bottle Al Ambra makes is an extrait. The brand rates the oil richness of this one as moderate to high and calls the blend French-inspired.
Al Ambra Paradise Valley compared with its closest siblings
Belleza is also an extrait for women, but in a 100 ml bottle instead of 50. Jasmine, vanilla, musk and cedar appear in both lists. The difference lies in what stands around the jasmine. Belleza surrounds it with orange blossom and tuberose and adds bergamot, its only fruit. Paradise Valley has pineapple and apple, rose and magnolia, and amber and cashmere wood.
With My Breeze the overlap is rose, vanilla, amber and musk, four notes that make both lists warm and floral. My Breeze is an eau de parfum in 100 ml, also for women, and it names no fruit: its other flowers are peony and ylang-ylang, and its wood is sandalwood. Paradise Valley answers with pineapple and apple, jasmine and magnolia, and two woods of its own, musky cashmere wood and dry cedar.
The Pearl comes in the same format, a 50 ml extrait, but Al Ambra lists it for men. Apple, vanilla and amber are common to both. From there they part. The Pearl builds on leather and violet and adds mandarin orange and labdanum, a leathery resin, where Paradise Valley has three flowers, musk and two woods. Fruit over flowers against fruit over leather is the short version.
Where to buy Al Ambra Paradise Valley in Europe
Paradise Valley is a scent you can read about here but not buy from FragranceGems, an independent reseller, at the moment. The button below sends a request to the shop. That is a question, not an order, and the shop may decide not to add the scent. Two scents it does sell come closest on paper. Dubai Musk has the same magnolia and musk, set in citrus and black currant instead of pineapple and apple. Black Forest Elixir shares the vanilla and musk of the base and puts white peach where Paradise Valley has its tropical fruit.
Request Paradise Valley at FragranceGemsA request is not an order, and it is no promise that the shop will add the scent.
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