![]() At this stage Ubar is a statement-making evening diva, not your average office-friendly perfume and indeed to treat it thus would amount to terrible waste. You never had such a lush lemon before! Give it some time however and it becomes a throbbing, pulsating, thorny dark rose, the way the classic Montana Parfum de Peau behaves, while jasmine later embraces the composition fully. ![]() What is most interesting about the re-issue is that Amouage Ubar is a regular shape-shifter on its ~very long~ course on my skin! Ubar's beginning mingles the discernible and very lush bergamot and lemon brightness with some "cleaner" notes (listed as lily of the valley, more of which here) cutting through the voluptuous richness yet already a velvety aura radiates warmth forth ~the magical radiance of civet, conferring a restraint upon whatever tangy nuances might have been feared. Luca Turin gave it maximum points in his Perfumes the Guidequarterly update, mentioning how the older version had also received high marks of respect from connoisseurs, and I can see how it would. Luckily for us, Amouage re-issued the Ubar fragrance in 2009 under their new Creative Director, Christopher Chong some formula tweaking didn't change the resulting composition too much, but enough to render it more baroque and extremely lasting.Ĭomparing a vintage sample I had languishing in my collection with a new batch which a generous friend recently provided, I can sense that the original 1995 Ubar consisted of a distinctive woody orientalised composition without much citrus up-top, while the re-issued Ubar is a floriental, with a dominating floral heart and a soft oriental aura on its lush lemon top and its silky woody bottom. Although archaeological study had been going steady following surface archeology methods, it was only in 1992 that satellite imaging fully revealed Ubar to the world.Ĭommemorating that event and marking their Silver Jubilee, the Omani-residing brand of Amouage first issued a fragrance named Ubar in 1995, yet like the lost city the fragrance disappeared soon afterwards as if engulged by the sands. Nicknamed "Atlantis of the Sands" by T.E.Lawrence, its mysterious past lay hidden beneath the sand dunes as a result of divine wrath against the amorality and greediness of its inhabitants (according to the Qur'an). The perfumers with whom, Chong chooses to work have an innate understanding of how to interpret his inspirational direction and who appreciate the desire of the brand to create its own trend, as opposed to following the flock.The exotic-sounding name of Ubar by parfums Amouage comes from a lost Omani city founded in 3000BC and still functioning during the first century AD, which consolidated a reputation as a tremendously wealthy trading post of frankincense en route the Silk Road. Today Amouage is renowned for its undeniable creative integrity.Īmouage perfumes are developed according to Christopher Chong's inspirational brief and formulated by world - recognised, top perfumers in Paris, Grasse, Geneva and New York. Since 2006, Crickmore and the Creative Director Christopher Chong, have together reinvented Amouage and developed it into a contemporary and globally appealing, luxury brand. Amouage adopts an inventive and highly creative approach to all its creations. ![]() An international, luxury, fragrance brand, Amouage is devoted to developing finely blended perfumes with only the highest quality of rare and luxurious ingredients, sourced from around the world. Amouage fragrances have reflected the wonderful heritage and mastery of perfume creation for almost 35 years.
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