Arabian Nights 2010

Arabian Nights by Jacques Bogart
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Arabian Nights is a perfume by Jacques Bogart for men and was released in 2010. The scent is sweet-spicy. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is still available to purchase.
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Main accords

Sweet
Spicy
Woody
Oriental
Animal

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
PetitgrainPetitgrain CarawayCaraway CardamomCardamom
Heart Notes Heart Notes
Fougère notesFougère notes Bitter orangeBitter orange PatchouliPatchouli
Base Notes Base Notes
MuskMusk CedarCedar VetiverVetiver OakmossOakmoss
Ratings
Scent
6.444 Ratings
Longevity
8.344 Ratings
Sillage
8.245 Ratings
Bottle
6.949 Ratings
Value for money
8.112 Ratings
Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 24.02.2023.
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5 in-depth fragrance descriptions
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Altruismus
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Very helpful Review 0  
Dark room
Arabian Nights, the perverted bitch. Jacques personal Dark Room.
Beaned leather chaps, steeled male bodies, darkness, severe seasoning, sweaty-wet, stuffy, sweet, overblown, urinous, room-filling, unyielding and dirty.
Lust and desire, the curiosity of the unknown, repulsively attractive.
The glow of spent lust, the wicked sacrifice of unrestrained sex,
the rest that remains after an ecstatic night (in the sheets).
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Carlitos01

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Carlitos01
Carlitos01
Helpful Review 3  
An odd Arabian evening
As a goal, I believe that the Bogart house intended to propose the arabian nights warmth and grandeur from the caliphates and emirates. I expected at least a scent to match our imagination about that theme. I don't think Bogart has been successful in that attempt. You clearly perceive two distinct phases in the perfume evolution:
- A smelly Arabian evening followed by a scented Arabian night.
or if you prefer...
- A souk market street scent followed by a scented Ottoman seraglio.
This fragrance deserves a more detailed note analysis for us to understand the "why" of its evolution in two separated phases: the smelly and the scented stages.

HEAD and HEART
In the powerful opening, the blending is based on strong accords of cumin (probably caraway variety), petitgrain (bitter essential oil extracted from the orange tree green leaves) and cardamom.
The strong and persistent petitgrain is the main responsible for the noted similarity mainly with Amouage Reflection Man and with Le Male in a lesser extent. However, when combined, the cumin and cardamom notes may develop a strong animalic scent. Cumin is a pungent bitter-sour spice note that sometimes (namely combined with cardamom) may be associated either to a sweat scent or to a pee scent. Used with care, it can highlight the a fragrance creativity like no other. Nowadays is often used to render an intimate, animalic note in absence of a recognised animalic ingredient like civet or castoreum. Cardamom can be intensely sweet, resinous and aromatic. Combining this intense aromatic resinous note with an animalic one, it amplifies the final accord effect. It's like singing from a distance or close to the ear. You will certainly enjoy the melodious song sung from afar, but you may reject the song that has been screamed in your ear. I do belive that Bogart's aim has been to ensure this loud animalic accord would endure the entire evolution, but it resulted in a strong punch in your nose, all the way through the head and heart developpment, and only eased up during the sweeter bottom and drydown.
This pungent scent effect makes Bogart's Arabian Nights to be one of the most polarizing fragrances in the fragrance community. You do encounter fierce haters cursing this perfume, or people madly in love with it. More than half of the haters claim this perfume to smell like pee in the top and middle stages. More than half of the lovers are quite enthusiastic about the strong animalic accord.

HEART
In the heart, one also perceives incense (yes, more incense amplifying the animalic effect), as well woods, floral notes and patchouli.

BOTTOM
At the base we get white musk, oak moss, cedar and vetiver. At this stage, and during the dry down, there is a slight added sweetness that some people attribute to existing tonka or vanilla ingredients. When reaching the bottom stage, the fragrance twists from an aggressive scent into an almost alluring, enchanting and persistent aroma.

The general feeling you get from the animalic side of this fragrance is a synthetic and unatural one, instead of a medicinal scent as it is usual in so many woody oriental fragrances. The output is intense and full of incense. When applied on your skin, the fragrance doesn't change much during its evolution. Mostly it revolves around the cumin/cardamom combo and added musk later on in the bottom phase. This perfume is not an easy one to please and a large Parfumo voter base may be prodigal in "tens" and "zeros".
If you seek an eastern dark oud note in Arabian Nights, you are just wasting your time. No oud is listed and there isn't any in the fragrance composition.
The bottle is very pretty, and although bears the same Bogart visual identity, it looks and feels nicer and with better quality than the other Bogarts. Both projection and longevity are huge. In my opinion, Bogart has been able to launch a fragrance close to the niche segment, but let's respect the proper proportions.
As I mentioned, there are allusions of similarity between Bogart's Arabian Nights and Amouage Reflection Man. In my opiniion that similarity exists, but Reflection Man is sweeter and less animalic. An Amouage lover will never admit such similarity, but at least a faint resemblance is quite obvious.
No comparison is possible with another "Arabian Nights", the one from Jesus del Pozo. They are just very different.

Let's check the math for Bogart's Arabian Nights:
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- Scent opening: 5.0 (I like animalic notes but not as loud as in this fragrance)
- Scent drydown: 8.5 (The drydown is actually quite nice)
- Longevity: 9.5 (Up to 12 hours - 3 sprays)
- Sillage: 8.5 (Up to 6~8 feet with almost 3 hours of projection - 3 sprays)
- Uniqueness: 9.5 (It's almost unique. I took 0.5 due to the similarity with Amouage Reflection Man.)
- Versatility: 4.0 (Be very careful when choosing the places where you are going to wear this perfume; alone at your home it's a very good and safe choice)
- Wearability: 7.0 (It is adequate for cold weather - during Winter and Fall; use it on a warm day only when visiting your mother in law).
- Compliments: 3.0 (actually some people like it all the way; many enjoy only the drydown; nevertheless many people just hate it.)
- Quality: 8.0 (a bit synthetic; good quality flask and sprayer)
- Presentation: 8.0 (quite nice and better looking than the other Bogarts)
- Price: 9.0 (100 ml non tester for 19 Euros)
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Average: 7.26 / 10.00
- between 7 and 8 = above average; Allways test it before buying.
- between 8 and 9 = recomended;
- bigger than 9 = don't miss it;
Advice: DO NOT blind buy it! Actually have your eyes wide open (I mean your nostrils) when testing it. Whenever you want to ride alone in a bus or train, apply 10 sprays of Bogart's Arabian Nights on a hot summer day.
I only review the fragrances I like. With Bogart's Arabian Nights I am expressing an opinion about a fragrance that I still don't realize if I like it or not. This duality makes me feel uncomfortable with this fragrance, or even disappointed. Two things I know for sure: Bogart's Arabian Nights will never provoke any compliments and that my wife will never use it.

Music: Rita Lee - "Lança Perfume" - either the portuguese version or the english version.
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AromaTikka
AromaTikka
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Between whip, studio and handcuffs
Top note:
Banana, lily of the valley, ylang ylang, tangerine

Heart note:
sweet, musty lavender, daisies, buttercup, marguerite, chamomile

Base note:
creamed leather, vaseline, opium, sweet skin scent
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Range intensity (projection & sillage):
(6-7) medium-high because of the exceptional note, which behaves like an evaporation

History:
rather linear progression, at the beginning floral notes noticeable, but at the end the sweetish leathery floral note remains / exhales like a body odor

Endurance:
The base stays very long! Behaves like a body odor, or becomes one for the wearer.

Flacon & exterior design:
Very tasteful and simple with gold and silver and black smooth glass.
Cardboard outer packaging combined with metallic, glossy foil for a higher quality effect.
The spray head, which is also the lid, is made of high-gloss painted plastic in gold and silver. As with most Bogarts, there is no cover cap. The spray button sits in the lid. Price/performance OK.
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Description:
"Are you of age?" asked the bouncer outside the swingers club Something like this is how Arabian Nights of Bogart.
"Strict prohibition of juvenile delinquency," you heard someone in line say. It was already deep in the night and in the parking lot the cars were crowding. Men with police caps and women with lots of red lipstick were talking to each other. Was it carnival today?...

Next scene: Japan. A Tokyo street has been blocked off. Behind the plastic walls you can hear a woman moaning loudly and a long queue of men is standing around the barriers. Everyone seems to be preparing for something
Next scene: A leather hanging chair hangs from the ceiling. A hole is sewn in at the bottom. They say this chair is not G-rated.
Next scene: A sweaty older man with a thick bare belly and white tennis socks looks through binoculars. He seems to be looking at an estate with a pool in the garden, in which a young woman is taking a bath. She is not naked, but wears a black thong and her breasts are completely covered by her long hair.....

Next scene: You hear a loud knocking at the door.
Second of shock!
Someone from behind taps you unexpectedly on the shoulder with their finger "Hello, how are you?" "You were dreaming."
"Why are you so sweaty?" More questions crackle in.

Then the sobering realization: You are in a film studio in the middle of a huge hall with various backdrops. Once you turn around, you can already see why you felt so out of place. The room through whose window one looked belongs to Aladdin and the wonder lamp. Hence the name "Arabian Nights". But there is nothing in common with the scenes experienced in the film studio, except that they are just other scenes in the same studio.

And that's exactly what Bogart's Arabian Nights is. The scent has absolutely nothing to do with Arabian Nights. The packaging says romance and seriousness, and the bottle itself has something completely different. Apparently, the designer has just confused the set with the setting.

But everything went just fine. It was just a movie studio. But wait a minute: "The actors were really naked!" Ohhhh.
Occasion:
XXX, Party, BuXXaXe

Season:
In the studio there is the season you want to have. Everything is possible
Age recommendation:
Strict ban on youth! ;-)

Similare & Scent twins:
So far, nothing has been discovered that smells similar, except something that could not be sprayed in the bottle.

Associations:
XXX, see the comments of other users.
Other associations would be interesting to know.

Other:
Must have tested it yourself. It's hard to describe Beautiful is what pleases! Some like it, some hate it. And others become sharp or hot.
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Coutureguru

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Coutureguru
Coutureguru
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Not conventionally Arabic
Bogart's Arabian Nights has been on my radar for a while, simply because I have an interest in Arabic fragrances. It's relatively inexpensive and I have often toyed with the idea of blind buying a bottle. When the opportunity of purchasing a sample arose I grabbed it … and I must say that I am in two minds about which would have been better!

Arabian Nights opens with Lavender (at least to my nose), but as this is not a listed note the Petitgrain and herbs listed may very well be conspiring to make it smell that way. The Lavender effect is short lived, but very nice … and then a slightly bitter Petitgrain takes over, which I really like. A soft, musky 'orange-ness' soon develops but is rather drowned out by a strident Patchouli which lasts for some time, eventually drying down into a rather sweet, run-of-the-mill woodsy affair, that neither repels nor intrigues me.
While Arabian Nights is a 'nice' fragrance at a decent price point, there is nothing here that is at all special, or for that matter even Arabic. One would expect a drop of Oud, perhaps a little Saffron or Rose … but no … this fragrance is just polite, and probably mis-named. No wild desert landscapes bathed in moonlight come to mind … no magic carpets, no desert djinns.
I suppose the thought that someone has tried to create a mysterious fragrance without the use of the usual culprit ingredients would be engaging … but I'll warrant that a more likely marketing strategy would involve cashing in on the surge in arab-centric fragrances of late. It does feel somewhat as if the 'Arabian Nights' here have been brewed in a large vat somewhere :).

Having said all of that, I cannot denounce this fragrance. It doesn't revolt the nose in any way and is quite pleasant. It's also just not noteworthy. Had I ordered the full bottle blind I would probably have used it a few times … there are just so many more exiting frags out there that I'd use all the time.
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BambukBambuk 8 months ago
Aldehydic floral for men. Something between Lanvin Arpege and Bogart Silver scent. The peak of extravagance or creative madness.
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LemonheadsLemonheads 2 years ago
8
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8
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8
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7.5
Scent
A dirty sweet fragrance,two directions that to most doesn't work,but it conjures memories of an orient bound with their wonderful spices!
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Carlitos01Carlitos01 5 years ago
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9
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5.5
Scent
Not easy to please Bogart's Arabian Nights revolves around a strong cumin/cardamom opening animalic accord and a bottom with a lot of musk.
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