What does Al Ambra Precious Jewel smell like?
Precious Jewel is arranged in an unexpected order. The top is spice, cardamom and cinnamon, one cool and one warm. The heart is green and dry: violet leaf, which is watery and leafy, geranium, a rosy leaf with a minty edge, and cedarwood.
The surprise is the base. Bergamot, a citrus fruit that almost every perfume places at the top, is listed at the bottom, beside saffron and tuberose. Saffron is leathery and slightly bitter; tuberose is the creamiest and headiest of the white flowers. This is the brand's own arrangement, and it is unusual enough to be worth knowing before you read the pyramid the usual way.
What Al Ambra says about Precious Jewel
Spicy, floral and woody is the brand's direction for Precious Jewel, and modern niche its word for the style. It places the scent in autumn and winter, at formal occasions, evenings and events, with a moderate projection.
Who is Al Ambra Precious Jewel for?
Al Ambra aims Precious Jewel at no one in particular: the product title says unisex. The notes do the sorting instead. Cardamom and cinnamon at the top suit anyone who likes a perfume to begin with spice rather than citrus. Violet leaf and geranium are green and leafy, a rarer taste than a liking for sweet florals. And tuberose, the creamy white flower in the base, is a note people tend either to seek out or to avoid.
Al Ambra Precious Jewel Extrait de Parfum, 50 ml: size and concentration
A 50 ml bottle, 1.7 fl oz, is the only size the brand lists for Precious Jewel, and the type is extrait de parfum. Al Ambra's label for the oil richness is high. It describes the blend as a hybrid: French-inspired, with an Arabic or niche influence. In the brand's range a 50 ml bottle always means an extrait, since no eau de parfum is sold in that size.
Al Ambra Precious Jewel compared with its closest siblings
Four notes tie Precious Jewel to Jacob: cardamom, cinnamon, cedarwood and saffron. Type and bottle match too, a 50 ml extrait. What separates them is everything else. Jacob adds black pepper, tobacco and patchouli, and the brand lists it for men. Precious Jewel leaves those out and brings in violet leaf, geranium, tuberose and bergamot, which turns the same spice frame green and floral.
Tuberose is the reason to compare Precious Jewel with Belleza. Both name it, together with bergamot and cedarwood. In Belleza, a 100 ml extrait for women, tuberose stands among orange blossom and jasmine, with vanilla and white musk. Here it is the only white flower, and its company is cardamom, cinnamon, saffron and two green leaves. One list is a white floral, the other a spice scent with a single white flower in it.
Catch You Back and Precious Jewel both list violet leaf and saffron, and both are 50 ml extraits. Catch You Back, which the brand lists for men, places those two notes beside suede and mineral notes, with mandarin and osmanthus for fruit and flower. Precious Jewel has no leather note of any kind. Its violet leaf keeps company with spice and cedarwood, and its flower is tuberose.
Where to buy Al Ambra Precious Jewel in Europe
Precious Jewel is not one of the four Al Ambra scents in the FragranceGems shop at the moment. The shop is an independent reseller and sets its own range. If this is the one you want, use the request button under this text; a request is not an order, and the shop makes no promise to add the scent. For a spiced alternative, Ravenna also lists cinnamon and bergamot, with ginger as a second spice. Dubai Musk shares only the bergamot, but it has a white flower of its own, magnolia, where Precious Jewel has tuberose.
Request Precious Jewel at FragranceGemsA request is not an order, and it is no promise that the shop will add the scent.
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