The Sands of Aqaba

I am at work. I have to work till 8 PM, it's now 6 PM. Usually noone comes at the last two hours of my work, so I spend the time testing. I sprayed some Sands of Aqaba on my wrist, but then I had a client, it took 20 minutes and all that time there was this wonderful, alluring smell coming from my wrist and I almost forgot that I have to discuss some serious finance stuff and started to sniff my wrist. I find this to be oriental floral, not just floral. It opens for me with wonderful gentle flowers and a tiny bit of spices. The flowers here are very, very sweet, almost resembles bubble gum at some points. I find this to be a very feminine. What I find so interesting about it - it's the spices. They linger all the time, making the flowers change all the time. And the spices - they don't hit me like "here we are", they appear once in a while, lingers around, then dissapears to come back again later. And everytime the flowers change afterwards, because of that. This is very alluring and appealing. A wrist sniffer. Oh and the chamomile, how could I forget about her. This is my first encounter with it in fragrance and I can say it's divine. The smell of it at the beggining and all trough the heart phase makes me cuddly and warm, because it reminds me of childhood. Is it wearable? Yes. Do I think I could find a place where I could wear this? Yes. Oh. It is really wonderful.

The Sands of Aqaba starts very sweet oriental, spicy, herbal and aromatic. I can smell the coriander as well as the cardamom in the very beginning surrounded by some sweet aromatic flowers. It has a base of dry feminine vetiver and chamomile. It is changing a lot during the drydown.I like it very much, but I wish it would last longer. Very delicious though.

A gorgeous, rich, spicy fragrance that's drier than the original Aqaba, yet is heavier in incense on my skin. This fragrance has many moods. It's not as mysterious-feeling as Aqaba to me, making it easier to wear more often. The timing has to be right for Aqaba, or Aqaba wears me.

I love the name and the scent. It's what I expect it to be. It reminds me of my trip to visit my boyfriends fam in Amman. Its spicy but not like Opium. It goes soft on the dry down. I find it relaxing and meditative.

again again again :) i am starting to believe that something is utterly wrong with my nose :) or my skin :) But...i smelled spicy fragrances before but this is not the beast :) would not even qualify it as spicy. it is a little bit sweet at first, the alcohol is bursting out... reminded me of a lighter cognac. then I got the chamomile mostly. A little bit mint like smell if I inhale it. Dryness is I guess is provided by the vetiver-chamomile combination. Do not get much of the flowers/cardamom/coriander but I guess they are the ones softening the kingdom of vetiver and chamomile. No offence meant but it smells a wee plastic-ey. The drydown is nice. I like chamomile. I think this is a nice fragrance. I would prefer to use as a fragrance for my wardrobe.