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Camel Ride Over The Desert
Viewing the desert sunset is an experience in itself – only observers can feel the royalty of the orange sun – slowly setting over the ocher desert horizon. Do you want to experience this exquisite natural canvas? Join me in my review of this Doha Sunset Desert Safari.
Sand Desert At Sunset unisex bombshell is a delicious blend of boozy, spicy, woody, and gourmand accords. It starts with a robust woody combination with an equally powerful alcoholic arrangement. Aged wood and spirit. If you’ve ever visited a cellar that produces ancient spirits, the smell that permeates the air combines the alcoholic liquid and the old wood of the casks. I get an unmentionable liqueur note mixed with the wood smoke and roasted tonka from the bottom. This initial aroma is not new to me, and I seem to remember a similar one in the "#Tobacco Collection - Rich/Warm/Addictive | Zara" perfume. Sweet and spicy cinnamon is lingering in the backstage, is looming, ready to explode in a short while. After testing and wearing it several times, with the weather announcing the arrival of autumn, I noticed some colors that I had missed the first time. There is a honeyed and smoky accord, which brings to mind a brownish honey made from tobacco flowers. It is not the classic smell of aromatic pipe tobacco, but as I said a tobacco honey, just as we can find chestnut, acacia, or eucalyptus honey. It's very good, and also very nice to smell.
The heart of Sand Desert At Sunset is a full gourmand accord that smells like cinnamon dough. Vanilla, tonka bean, and cinnamon form a delicious sticky dough accord. It’s like cinnamon cookies, apple pie, and any mouth-watering dessert with cinnamon powder. We have vanilla and cinnamon, which form a warm and rich amber. A caramel accent like that of dulce de leche is more evident than chocolate. These sweet and gourmand elements gradually push back the cinnamon, creating a better balance. Smoky and resinous touches of incense mix with spices, making the heart slightly smoky but not clerical.
As the scent develops, the sweetness remains constant, but the cinnamon fades, allowing some more woody underlying accords to emerge – cedar, perhaps, but definitely a light creamy sandalwood-like component. They work well with sweetness while also adding a slight dryness. There are also some powdery aspects. The iris is noticeable without prevailing. It’s buttery and powdery but not the center of attention like in Dior Homme Original (2011) Eau de Toilette or L'Homme Intense. Here it serves to recreate the sand of the desert dunes.
Aged spirit, spiced cinnamon, and roasted tonka show brilliantly in Sand Desert At Sunset. This is a genuinely exceptional scent, a superbly ripe gourmand that balances liqueur and spice notes with a subtle woodiness to keep the vanilla and chocolate from seeming almost cloying or overpowering and undermining the scent. Some people might find the contrast a little sweet and too sharp for them. However, it’s not one of the sweetest alcoholic scents I’ve ever smelled, nor is it too chocolaty, gourmand, or nutty. What remains on the blotter, even after a few days, is a hint of woody, boozy tobacco, similar to a moment of relaxation with a pipe and a good glass of barrel aged spirit.
ZARA released this collection at the beginning of the year, around mid-January, and this fragrance goes perfectly with the cold weather of the autumn and winter months. The result is an intoxicating fragrance with a woody background. The richness of its warm spices, intense resins, and smoked woods make it unsuitable for spring warmth or torrid summer heat. The duration and projection are below average, but it holds up well for an evening or a night. For the day and for work, it is dense and intense. An excellent and unexpected surprise.
I am basing my review on a bottle I have owned since March 2023.
-Elysium
Sand Desert At Sunset unisex bombshell is a delicious blend of boozy, spicy, woody, and gourmand accords. It starts with a robust woody combination with an equally powerful alcoholic arrangement. Aged wood and spirit. If you’ve ever visited a cellar that produces ancient spirits, the smell that permeates the air combines the alcoholic liquid and the old wood of the casks. I get an unmentionable liqueur note mixed with the wood smoke and roasted tonka from the bottom. This initial aroma is not new to me, and I seem to remember a similar one in the "#Tobacco Collection - Rich/Warm/Addictive | Zara" perfume. Sweet and spicy cinnamon is lingering in the backstage, is looming, ready to explode in a short while. After testing and wearing it several times, with the weather announcing the arrival of autumn, I noticed some colors that I had missed the first time. There is a honeyed and smoky accord, which brings to mind a brownish honey made from tobacco flowers. It is not the classic smell of aromatic pipe tobacco, but as I said a tobacco honey, just as we can find chestnut, acacia, or eucalyptus honey. It's very good, and also very nice to smell.
The heart of Sand Desert At Sunset is a full gourmand accord that smells like cinnamon dough. Vanilla, tonka bean, and cinnamon form a delicious sticky dough accord. It’s like cinnamon cookies, apple pie, and any mouth-watering dessert with cinnamon powder. We have vanilla and cinnamon, which form a warm and rich amber. A caramel accent like that of dulce de leche is more evident than chocolate. These sweet and gourmand elements gradually push back the cinnamon, creating a better balance. Smoky and resinous touches of incense mix with spices, making the heart slightly smoky but not clerical.
As the scent develops, the sweetness remains constant, but the cinnamon fades, allowing some more woody underlying accords to emerge – cedar, perhaps, but definitely a light creamy sandalwood-like component. They work well with sweetness while also adding a slight dryness. There are also some powdery aspects. The iris is noticeable without prevailing. It’s buttery and powdery but not the center of attention like in Dior Homme Original (2011) Eau de Toilette or L'Homme Intense. Here it serves to recreate the sand of the desert dunes.
Aged spirit, spiced cinnamon, and roasted tonka show brilliantly in Sand Desert At Sunset. This is a genuinely exceptional scent, a superbly ripe gourmand that balances liqueur and spice notes with a subtle woodiness to keep the vanilla and chocolate from seeming almost cloying or overpowering and undermining the scent. Some people might find the contrast a little sweet and too sharp for them. However, it’s not one of the sweetest alcoholic scents I’ve ever smelled, nor is it too chocolaty, gourmand, or nutty. What remains on the blotter, even after a few days, is a hint of woody, boozy tobacco, similar to a moment of relaxation with a pipe and a good glass of barrel aged spirit.
ZARA released this collection at the beginning of the year, around mid-January, and this fragrance goes perfectly with the cold weather of the autumn and winter months. The result is an intoxicating fragrance with a woody background. The richness of its warm spices, intense resins, and smoked woods make it unsuitable for spring warmth or torrid summer heat. The duration and projection are below average, but it holds up well for an evening or a night. For the day and for work, it is dense and intense. An excellent and unexpected surprise.
I am basing my review on a bottle I have owned since March 2023.
-Elysium
Updated on 09/11/2023
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