Arabie (for women and men)

cbstarker

This is the recipe for a delicious and thirst-quenching drink I like to make late on a summer afternoon as the sun gathers momentum and begins its dive towards the horizon.

1. Fill a glass with ice.
2. Pour the glass half-full with Pernod or similar liqueur.
3. Top off with club soda.
4. Add a splash of Angostura bitters
5. Settle into a hammock under the broad leaves of a catalpa tree, relax, and enjoy yourself.

If this is not possible, try SL's Arabie. It too is a rereshing and leisurely way to take it easy on a hot and sunny summer day.

ferrari

Dried fruits with spices, acidic and light wood note. That reminds me acidic of Cartier Le Baiser du Dragon and Shiseido Feminite Du Bois.

Com[ote of prunes and other dried fruit with palmful southern spices. After the boiled compote , you pour it into the wooden carafe. And we have Arabie.

Auguszta

This is the best oriental fragrance I have ever smelled, no question. I agree with the spicy fruitcake comparison, but there's so much more to it than that.
Like Rebella said, it takes you on a journey. Wearing this I feel instantly transported to Morocco, a place I love so much, but not just to a Moroccan sweet shop - it takes you through the whole marketplace.
The scent is dominated by the candied fruit, the orange peel and the spices (mainly clove and nutmeg, hence the holiday association), but it also has a strangely dark and mysterious quality. That's exactly why it won't please those who are only in it for the sweetness. It doesn't stop there. It has way too much character.
It isn't quite as sweet and heavy as you'd imagine it to be (e.g. Douce Amere and Louve are much sweeter), but it sure is dense. It's rich and generous, warm and enveloping, it's very much alive and a profusion of all things good. If you don't appreciate this kind of generosity, you'd better stay away from it:)

litldove7

I agree with TESSTURE. Very spice-cake like or gingerbread baking in the oven. It surely is a reminder of mouth-watering holiday yummies being prepared for our gracious bellies. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if I can wear it. It faintly reminds me of the scented spiced pear candles and air freshner that I purchased during the holidays. It's nice...but I don't know if I want to smell like this.

tessture

Smells like gingerbread or spice cake. Gorgeous, edible holiday food scent. Very expensive, but such a wonderful scent for cold weather.

Jalutschka

The name itself is programmatic - and of course, this creation is loaded with the bazaar delights you'd expect from it. The patchouli, musk and the spices in Arabie are well balanced and arranged in a harmonious way like in Khatchaturian's ballet "Gayaneeh" - and there is a sense of surrender to this perfume. It has a kind of magic spell - I absolutely fall under it.

Vickalena

I decided to test Arabie together with famous Feminite du Bois from Shiseido and to compare the scents .

Of course, the handwriting of Christopher Sheldrake is seen immediately! In the very first minutes they seem to be like the same perfume - both aromas are very strong, dense, resinous.

Then Arabie opens its rich exotic-woody base of an eastern spices with a generous handful of nutmeg and a hint of the candied crusts of a tangerine. Arabie is very bright and colorful, like an asian market, deep and charming like the parables by Gibran Khalil Gibran. It brings you far away to unknown worlds.

I like the aroma itself, but till now I did not feel like I'd wear it.

F_A

Very rich, spicy, sweet, heavy fragrance. I could smell grilled caramelized peanuts first, then the smell turned into the smell of spices market somewhere down in Egypt. One thing that scared me a bit is color. When i sprayed it on the white testing paper, it left a bright yeallowish brown trace. Would it leave traces on my clothes either?...

rebella

This is one of the most amazing fragrances I´ve ever tried. It takes me on a journey and enjoy it so much. It takes me to the church in my hometown way up in northern Sweden... The tick churchwalls, the brasschandelers, the sunbeams trough the churchwindows warming up the woodbenches... in my head the fragrance of dried fruits are very like the smell of funeralcarnations... I must be a very easily affected person, because this fragrance have almost hallucinogen effects on me.

I havn´t tried as many niche and exclusive perfumes as I want yet, but I find that they have one thing in common (so far) they make me feel and imagine a lot of pleasant things. They may not smell better than mainstream perfumes, or last longer... but they have this amazing emotional quality... I want moore! I´ve only have a small sample... and Serge Lutens perfumes is so expensiv and hard to get... oooh why???

Aeternitas

The best oriental woody fragrance I have smelled for a woman. It's not too heavy, but it's strong enough. I can detect the smell of clove and orange peels ,with some cedar and sandalwood. This one worked on my skin nicely, but after a while it started to smell like a spicy pumpkin pie on my arm. That's okay with me because I love the smell of pumpkins and spice, but I wish it would stay on me the way it does at first :p