Abu Dhabi

Scent Profile

Top notes: Cinnamon, Pink Pepper, Elemi

Heart notes: Oud, Incense, Rose

Base notes: Sandalwood, Amber, Musk, Labdanum

Why We Carry This

Memo Paris excels at translating places into fragrance without resorting to postcard clichés. Abu Dhabi captures the contrast between the city's luminous modernity and its desert-warm, resinous air. The oud-sandalwood base is handled with a lightness that keeps it from becoming heavy.

Character

Accords: Oud, Woody, Warm Spicy, Smoky, Amber, Floral

Perfumer: Alienor Massenet

Launched: 2019

The light over the Gulf comes in at an angle that makes everything look gold-edged. Abu Dhabi opens with bergamot and pink pepper carrying that quality, bright but warm, before jasmine and rose in the heart pull the composition deeper. Oud gives the mid-stage a dark, resinous weight that sandalwood and amber in the base absorb and extend. The whole arc moves from sunlit opening to a warm, lasting depth that suits the city it is named for.