Giorgio Armani has launched the third fragrance in the Les Eaux Armani Privé range. The new fragrance, Oranger Alhambra, joins Rose Alexandrie and Vétiver Babylone.
Oranger Alhambra is intended as "a hymn to [Armani's] childhood memories of freshness and the sunlight of the Mediterranean":
The art of Persian gardens has lived on in Andalusia; within the walls of the Alhambra there exists a garden that is a piece of paradise on earth. The architecture of the gardens of Alhambra is engraved into eternity.
The fragrance notes include lemon, bergamot, bitter orange, petitgrain, rosemary, marjoram, jasmine, rose, moss and patchouli.
Giorgio Armani Privé Oranger Alhambra is $115 for 100 ml Eau de Toilette. (via giorgioarmanibeauty)
The first AP to really, REALLY pique my interest. Armani must have consulted w/ me for the notes in this one – hope TPC snatches a bottle!
Would love to try it, as I love moss and patchouli. The top looks like a smooth river rock, it's very nice! :~)
This sounds really interesting (and the bottle is precious) but, for some reason, I just can't wrap my head around orange — orange anything. “Bitter orange” sounds promising, though, and the the rest of the notes are exciting to me, so maybe I'll have to try it.
Wow, really, the first?? I'm very surprised. But this one does sound lovely to me too…
The APs have all been so nicely packaged. I like the wood bottles for the “regular” APs better than these glass ones though.
I love orange & petitgrain…and moss as well. Sounds like maybe a livelier version of Hermes Eau de Orange Vert…
Sigh … you had me at Alhambra. One of the happiest days of my life was spent there. Can't wait to try this, the notes sound really promising.
I sniffed it a couple of weeks ago in Paris (Printemps already had it). It was very nice, but didn't feel compelled to use precious skin space to test, and I forgot how it smelled before I even left the store.
LOL — skin space *is* precious at times.
Hope it will fit in with your good memories
Orange is pretty much a non-negotiable for me; I really wanted to like Terre d'Hermes but the orange! The orange! Dx It was quite nice though and very interesting in it's mineral-ness. The rest of this sounds so nice, though! Maybe the orange isn't pronounced? I guess that's silly (It's in the freakin' name!), but I still have hope that one day, I'll find a lovely orange.
Of what does petitgrain smell? =o
Light sharp orange, I think, though it smells indistinguishable from lemon to me. Have you tried TDC's Bergamote? That's my (and several other posters') HG orange scent.
Ah, the orange in Terre d'Hermes was so gorgeous to me! Petitgrain smells like wood, mostly, a little green, and I think of it as also smelling citrusy but maybe that is because it is most always used w/ citrus?
Should have said just in case — petitgrain is mostly twigs & leaves from the bitter orange tree. You probably already knew that.
No, I haven't tried Bergamote yet, though it's on the must-sample list. The dauntingly-long must-sample list. I swear, I'm gonna go broke sampling before I even buy anything!
Td'H's orange was quite orange-y. To me, it just smelled like these vitamin C tablets on which I used to practically overdose. Really, I have no idea why I want an orange fragrance. It's sort of illogical; I don't even like the real thing!
And thanks. I really had no idea what petitgrain is. I'm bulding up my vocabulary, though!
I love Terre d'Hermes, but I don't get a strong orange aspect. My husband and I were just sniffing at it and we both get the citrus, sure, but it seems more like the grapefruit to us. Now, I am new at this, but the basic composition reminded me of something else… I pulled out my Sel de Vetiver sample and sprayed it on the other hand. Voila! They have some striking similarities. TdH is rounder and softer, SdV is sharper and cleaner. I'm very attracted to both. The big difference, I imagine, will be in the drydown.
P.S. I think the Prive Oranger Alhambra sounds gorgeous!
I had to laugh at this – my to-try list had to graduate from various scribblings on memo sheets to a full-on spreadsheet. I think I have about 70 on there now. I think I intimidated the SAs at Bloomie's and Nordstrom when I dragged it out of my bag – they really just wanted to squirt a little Juicy on me in hopes I would buy some and go away. The only good one was the guy in the men's fragrance dept. who washappy to show me things that would appeal to women (which added more to my list, since he was out of sample vials (sigh).
I have a similar amount on another spreadsheet of samples I already have!
Fun, though, isn't it?
I did manage to buy a few less-expensive things: EL Bronze Goddess, Bulgari Black, and a large bottle of good ole' 4711.
This does sound good, and I love the memories the concept evokes of the beautiful orange trees inside the courtyard mosque/cathedral in Old Cordoba. Not sure if I can afford the “Privé” line's prices though (and I really overspent in July again — gah!).
I'm being teased by TDC Bergamote — I must get a sample! Too bad about Eric not liking Terre d'Hermes, his description of Vitamin C reminds me of a review on Basenotes that made me laugh, which said that TdH smelled like an orange baby aspirin being crushed underfoot on hot, sunny rocks.
LOL — I love that, orange baby aspirin being crushed on hot rocks. HA!
And yeah, the stuff ain't cheap. I like the Armani Prive line but have yet to meet one I'd pay for.
Bergamote is relatively affordable – 70 euros I think I paid – c$100? That's the price of a night in a Hampton Inn (and only if you time it right!).