What does Al Ambra Secret Scent smell like?
Secret Scent opens crisp: green apple, bergamot and lemon. Green apple is the sour, crunchy version of the apple note, and the two citrus fruits sharpen it further.
Rose is the one named flower in the heart, with soft florals and light woods around it. The base has four notes, musk, sandalwood, amber and patchouli. Patchouli is what earns the scent the brand's label of a modern chypre: a chypre joins a fresh top to an earthy base. Here that base is softened by creamy sandalwood and musk, so the earthiness is one voice among several.
What Al Ambra says about Secret Scent
The brand describes Secret Scent as fresh, fruity and floral with a clean woody side. In Al Ambra's own terms it is one of the quieter scents: the projection is given as light to moderate. Spring and autumn, daily wear and the office are what the brand names.
Who is Al Ambra Secret Scent for?
By its product title Secret Scent is a women's scent. By its notes it is for anyone who likes a perfume to start sharp and clean: green apple, bergamot and lemon are all on the sour side of fruit. Rose lovers get one clear flower in the heart. Sandalwood and musk suit people who want a soft finish, and patchouli adds a little earth for those who like some depth under a fresh top. It is not the list for someone who wants a dense, sweet scent.
Al Ambra Secret Scent Extrait de Parfum, 50 ml: size and concentration
Al Ambra lists one size for Secret Scent, 50 ml or 1.7 fl oz, as an extrait de parfum. Among the extraits in this guide the small bottle is the more common one: 19 of the 28 come in 50 ml and nine in 100 ml. For Secret Scent the brand gives the oil richness as moderate and the blend style as French-inspired.
Al Ambra Secret Scent compared with its closest siblings
Blue Grotto has more notes in common with Secret Scent than the other two scents compared here: apple, lemon, sandalwood, amber and patchouli, five in all, in the same 50 ml extrait format. Yet the two read differently. Blue Grotto, listed as unisex, adds marine notes, blue ginger, incense and vetiver, which makes it salty and smoky. Secret Scent keeps bergamot, rose and musk for itself and stays floral and soft.
My Breeze is likewise listed for women, but as an eau de parfum in 100 ml. Take away the four notes the two share, rose, musk, sandalwood and amber, and the contrast is plain. Secret Scent is left with green apple, bergamot, lemon and patchouli: sour fruit, citrus and earth. My Breeze is left with peony, vanilla and ylang-ylang: a watery flower, a sweet note and a creamy tropical flower.
For a sweeter take on the same three notes, lemon, amber and patchouli, there is Orlina, a 100 ml eau de parfum for women. To those three it adds neroli, raspberry, jasmine, orange flower, gardenia and white honey. Secret Scent has a single named flower, rose, and no honey. Green apple, bergamot, musk and sandalwood make up the rest of its list.
Where to buy Al Ambra Secret Scent in Europe
This guide cannot point you to a shop for Secret Scent: FragranceGems, its publisher and an independent reseller, does not sell the scent for now. The button below opens its request page, where you name the scent you are after without ordering anything and without a guarantee that it will be added. In the shop, Dubai Musk overlaps in bergamot, musk and sandalwood, with black currant in place of green apple. Black Forest Elixir has the bergamot, musk and patchouli: read that one if the earthy base drew you.
Request Secret Scent at FragranceGemsA request is not an order, and it is no promise that the shop will add the scent.
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