What does Al Ambra Spirit of Elegance smell like?
Spirit of Elegance starts with two herbs, clary sage and lavender: dry and tea-like next to clean and aromatic.
The heart is where the character forms. Bitter almond recalls marzipan with a cherry-like sharpness, vanilla is creamy, leather is dry and smoky, and orris, the root of the iris, is cool and powdery. Leather is named again in the base, with tonka bean, amber, Cashmeran and white woods. Tonka bean has an almond tone of its own, so it continues what the bitter almond began. Cashmeran is an aroma molecule with a soft, musky wood character. Almond and vanilla around leather is the structure the brand calls a modern gourmand leather.
What Al Ambra says about Spirit of Elegance
Warm, sweet and leathery, slightly powdery, is the brand's summary. Al Ambra places Spirit of Elegance in autumn and winter and names evenings, formal occasions and date nights. The projection is moderate to strong, by its own account.
Who is Al Ambra Spirit of Elegance for?
On the brand's site, Spirit of Elegance is titled as a scent for men. The notes are aimed at a specific taste: leather that has been sweetened. If you like almond, marzipan and vanilla and also like leather, this list brings the two together, with bitter almond and tonka bean on one side and leather named twice on the other. If you want your leather dry and bare, the vanilla and almond will be too much. Lavender and clary sage give fans of aromatic openings a way in.
Al Ambra Spirit of Elegance Eau de Parfum, 100 ml: size and concentration
Spirit of Elegance is an eau de parfum; the bottle holds 100 ml, or 3.4 fl oz, and no other size is listed. For the oil richness the brand's word is high. The blend is described as a hybrid, French-inspired with an Arabic or niche influence. Al Ambra sells each scent in a single size, and for its eaux de parfum that size is always 100 ml.
Al Ambra Spirit of Elegance compared with its closest siblings
For the dry version of this idea, read Irish Ferre. Both are men's eaux de parfum in 100 ml, and both list leather, tonka bean and amber. Irish Ferre adds only juniper berries and maté, a piney berry and a smoky green leaf, so its leather stays lean. Spirit of Elegance adds six notes, and four of them soften: bitter almond, vanilla, orris and Cashmeran. Lavender and clary sage are its herbs where Irish Ferre has juniper.
How do you sweeten a leather? The Pearl, a men's extrait in the smaller 50 ml bottle, uses fruit, red apple and mandarin orange, and powders the result with violet. Spirit of Elegance uses almond and tonka bean and powders it with orris. Vanilla, leather and amber are on both lists. Labdanum appears only in The Pearl; lavender, clary sage and Cashmeran only here.
Only leather and amber remain when the comparison is with Ambra Oud. Ambra Oud is a unisex eau de parfum, also 100 ml, and it surrounds those two notes with oud, patchouli, blood orange, cinnamon and mint. No oud is listed for Spirit of Elegance, and no citrus or mint either. Its territory is the sweet shelf: vanilla, bitter almond and tonka bean, which Ambra Oud does without.
Where to buy Al Ambra Spirit of Elegance in Europe
Spirit of Elegance is outside the range of FragranceGems today, and as an independent reseller the shop makes no promise that this will change. What you can do is send a request with the button below, which is neither a purchase nor a reservation. Be aware that the nearest scents in the shop are not sweet leathers. Black Forest Elixir shares one note, vanilla, next to patchouli and vetiver. Dubai Musk shares none: it is the shop's soft musk scent, and a different thing altogether.
Request Spirit of Elegance at FragranceGemsA request is not an order, and it is no promise that the shop will add the scent.
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