What does Al Ambra Secret Adventure smell like?
Secret Adventure has five notes and none of them is sweet. Leather stands alone at the top, the dry, smoky note that perfumers build from materials such as birch tar.
The heart is patchouli and cypress. Patchouli is an earthy, dark leaf; cypress is a fresh, green conifer, the one note here that lets in some air. The base is vetiver, a rooty and dry grass, and woods. From top to bottom the list reads leather, earth, conifer, root, wood. The brand describes the direction as dry, leathery, woody and earthy, and files the scent with its classic leathers.
What Al Ambra says about Secret Adventure
Al Ambra suggests Secret Adventure for autumn and winter and for formal occasions, evenings and events. On the brand's page the projection is moderate.
Who is Al Ambra Secret Adventure for?
Secret Adventure is addressed to men, at least in its product title. What the note list asks of you is a liking for dryness. Vetiver and patchouli are for people who enjoy the smell of roots and earth, cypress for those who like conifers, and leather opens the scent with nothing in front of it. A wearer of any gender who prefers woods to flowers can read this list with interest. A lover of vanilla or fruit will find nothing to hold on to.
Al Ambra Secret Adventure Eau de Parfum, 100 ml: size and concentration
The brand sells Secret Adventure as an eau de parfum in one size, 100 ml (3.4 fl oz). That puts it among the 21 eaux de parfum in this guide, every one of them in 100 ml; the 50 ml bottle is kept for extraits. On Al Ambra's page the oil richness is labelled high and the blend style Arabic.
Al Ambra Secret Adventure compared with its closest siblings
A reader who likes this leather but misses oud should look at Oud Shamayel. It is an extrait in 50 ml, also for men, and it shares leather and patchouli with Secret Adventure. Beside them it lists oud accords, violet, honey and musk, so its leather comes with resin and a waxy sweetness. Secret Adventure has neither oud nor honey. Cypress and vetiver, a conifer and a root, keep it green and dry instead.
Leather and patchouli also link Secret Adventure to Ambra Oud, an eau de parfum in the same 100 ml size that the brand lists as unisex. Ambra Oud is the busier list: blood orange, cinnamon and mint, then amber and oud. Secret Adventure names no citrus, spice or resin. Its other notes are cypress and vetiver, and leather is the first thing on its list.
The earthy half of Secret Adventure, patchouli and vetiver, also appears in Essence, a men's extrait in 100 ml. Essence reaches it from the opposite direction, with grapefruit, bergamot and ginger, lychee and cedarwood, and tonka bean for softness. It has no leather. So the choice is between a citrus scent with an earthy side and a leather scent that is earthy throughout.
Where to buy Al Ambra Secret Adventure in Europe
At present the place to buy Secret Adventure is not FragranceGems. The shop is an independent reseller with a small Al Ambra selection, and sending a request with the button below tells it there is demand. You buy nothing by doing so, and the shop does not commit to adding the scent. In the shop itself, Black Forest Elixir lists both patchouli and vetiver, although it wraps them in peach, orange blossom and vanilla. Black Forest shares no named note. It is close only in being short and dry: grapefruit and ambroxan.
Request Secret Adventure at FragranceGemsA request is not an order, and it is no promise that the shop will add the scent.
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