Aqaba Classic Aqaba for women

when i was in highschool i went to paris & visited notre dame. this scent reminds me of the smell of the candles my friend and i got from inside the church. it's kind of a waxy, honey, inscense kinda smell. i like the scent but i don't want to wear it as a perfume.

I smelled this perfume many time in the past and now I'm trying to track it back somewhere again because I would like to smell it again before buying. Tastes may change.
It is very intense, almost dense and utterly beautiful oriental. It smells like a bit of everything in the beginning as if the perfumer couldn't really decide what to put inside and just put everything for good measure.
After a while on skin it blend with your skin chemistry and the result is very personal but always deeply oriental, spicy with style and also floral, especially rose. A great fragrance with a great staying power. A little goes a long time and with good sillage. Just try it before buying because you really need to like Middle Eastern type of fragrance to enjoy this gem.

I don't know if it's because this sample has been in my keeping for over a year and turned weird, but this now reminds me of a spicier Bvlgari Femme. The fact remains that one year later, I still don't like this fragrance. It's too floral and sweet and old fashioned for my taste. There's a note underneath, I think it's the peach, that actually makes it a scrubber for me. I'll pass.

An old-fashioned oriental scent. Very strong, woody and spicy. Maximum silage and fair longevity.

Mysterious, alluring, powerful. It comes alive on skin and becomes intimate, sensuous, and spellbinding. Definitely a "night" fragrance!

(This review is for Eau de Perfume)

AQABA is a beautiful rich oriental scent with the lavish rose, mysterious frankincense, sultry spices and sweetness that add silky finish to the composition. This strong, spicy sweet and complex but smooth fragrance is simply gorgeous. I want to inhale it over and over and over!

The opening is amazing with heady sweet spicy rose, peach aroma and tea leaves mixed with the heavy dose of spices. The mysterious incense scent wraps around the top notes making the composition complex and sultry. The heart notes are spicy sweet roses and jasmine. They express the beauty of oriental perfume amazingly well. The incense is quite noticeable in the heart notes. The base notes are more subtle with cedarwood, incense and peach sweetness.
The scent evokes images of travelling through the desert to a lavish Arabian Palace centuries ago. It is like reading stories from 1001 nights and dreaming about the adventures and forbidden love that could never be.

This Arabian beauty was definitely worthy to be added to my collection. I bought the full bottle after finishing my sample. The sillage is phenomenal. The longevity is 10 hours or more. The scent is powerful but not overpowering. I find it quite wearable even in the daytime.

This is wonderful. My nose usually is not friendly with clove and clove is definetely a big part of Aqaba classic, but somehow it all together makes me all dreamy and in love. It's extremely feminine, sensual and warm. I can easily imagine this to be worn by Cleopatra or any other ancient time femme fatales. By this I don't want to say it's "old" or "dated", it just has this quality that makes me think of rich ancient times.
I can feel wonderful cinnamon with powdery peach, sweetness of jasmin and marvelous rose and I can't stop sniffing my wrist. It has an amazing quality as any Aqaba fragrance and it's something every oriental rose lover should try, because this is....special.

Interesting. Very conservative. Rather heavy cigar tobacco and incense notes on top of sweet floral base. A disappointing generic flowery finish.

The Aqaba name made me interested in this perfume, and I expected something really original. Instead, all the perfumes in the Aqaba collection have old lady scent in them. I took a long time to decide which bottle to buy and finally chose Sands of Aqaba. If sprayed once, it can become nice and lasts all day. Not a bad choice but nothing to go crazy about.

This is my favorite of Aqaba! Like heat in the noon, in desert. With wonderful softness of cinnamon and balmy sweet woods... Light weightless like fume of incense in the women's half of the palace ;o))

The Aqaba website gives the following fragrance notes:
Peach
Tea Leaves
Egyptian Jasmine
Bulgarian Rose
Damask Rose
Cinnamon
Cloves
Cardamom
Frankincense
White Cedar Wood
Oakmoss

Sounds lovely!

this fragrance is one of the most beutiful and precious fragrances in my collection. it is very intensive, very spicy and aromatic. the cloves and cinnamon dominate in the composition, rounded by the frankincense. altho intense, this fragrance is not heavy, but has some kind of spicy freshness. with the development it becomes softer and sweeter. it is amazingly long lasting.

te bottle is anciently elegant, and the top is suprisingly heavy. i love the draw-string pouch it reminds me of middle east jewelry.