Immediately as i read this perfume's name without kwnowing anything else from it i expected: 1)An arab scent and 2)An oud creation. And seing the notes and descriptions on the store website, i saw that it really has those 2 links. But wearing Dahab and expecting an oud araba creation gave me the same estrangement i had when i watched August: Osage County with Meryl Strip and discovered it was classified as a comedy (which is the last thing the film is): the result is interesting but you end with the sensation that there is something disconnected between the final product and it's proper promotion. But the scent does have, as they promote, a desert air on its smell since the beginning, an aroma tha opens very dry, sultry nad pugent smell on skin.I feel like they have made a base of ambar only of labdanum, without any vanilla or benjoin to give it a sweet touch. Mixed with this there is something citrus and bitter going along also with an airless herbal impression. I then notice the spices in a progressive way, from a dry and slightly animalic pepper and cumin impresssion to a delicate and slightly sweet saffron touch.Sometimes i have the sensation that i'm also noticing a distant vanilla note just like a mirage in the middle of the desert. There is something fascinating and oppressor in a desert and this is the same impression that Dahab gaves me. It depends on its viewer preferences/tolerances.
