Dubai Garnet

Scent Profile

Top notes: Bergamot, Blackberry, Cardamom, Pink Pepper, Seaweed

Heart notes: Cumin, Jasmine, Lavender, Magnolia, Plum, Rose

Base notes: Amber, Musk, Myrhh, Oakmoss, Vetiver

Why We Carry This

The seaweed-to-cumin-to-oakmoss structure is genuinely eccentric for a floral oriental, which is precisely why it caught our attention. Dubai Garnet doesn't follow the obvious path, and that's what makes it worth carrying next to Ruby.

Character

Accords: Amber, Fruity, Rose, Sweet, Aromatic, Floral, Soft Spicy, Musky, Earthy, Citrus

Launched: 2016

Blackberry, seaweed, and pink pepper make for an odd opening, bright and tart with a mineral saltiness underneath, and it shouldn't work as well as it does going into the rose-and-cumin heart. Cumin is the pivot: warm, faintly animalic, stopping the rose from going decorative. Vetiver, oakmoss, and myrrh close it out with a slightly chypric drydown that reads richer than expected for something that started with blackberries.