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Fragrance Notes
The first impression, and usually the lightest part of the fragrance. These notes evaporate first, which is how a fragrance is built to open.
As well as the top notes fading, your nose adapts to a constant scent and stops registering it, while people nearby still smell it. Smell your wrist after leaving the room, or ask someone close.
The main body of the scent, emerging as the top notes fade. It shapes how the fragrance smells once it settles on skin.
As well as the top notes fading, your nose adapts to a constant scent and stops registering it, while people nearby still smell it. Smell your wrist after leaving the room, or ask someone close.
Heavier molecules that evaporate slowly, like woods, musk, amber and oud. They are there from the start, and they are what remains once the rest has faded.
As well as the top notes fading, your nose adapts to a constant scent and stops registering it, while people nearby still smell it. Smell your wrist after leaving the room, or ask someone close.
Azure Intense opens on bergamot, black currant, apple, lemon and pink pepper, moves through pineapple, lavender, patchouli, jasmine, geranium and elemi, then settles into birch, cedar, ambroxan, musk, oak moss and labdanum. The progression runs fruity-fresh into herbal-floral into a dry, musky woodiness, with a wide note count that gives it a layered, textured feel.
The opening is built from five notes — bergamot, black currant, apple, lemon and pink pepper — and the black currant sits at the centre of the effect, giving the citrus a slightly tart, fruity depth rather than a plain sharp freshness. Apple adds a crisp, juicy edge alongside the bergamot and lemon, while pink pepper introduces a faint prickle that keeps the fruit from reading as sweet. It is a busy top accord, closer to a fruit basket than a single citrus note, and that density carries the fragrance's energy in its first phase. The middle brings pineapple, lavender, patchouli, jasmine, geranium and elemi — six notes working together, with pineapple continuing the fruity thread from the top while lavender and geranium bring in a herbal, slightly green quality. Jasmine softens that herbal edge with a touch of white floral warmth, patchouli starts to hint at the dry base to come, and elemi adds a resinous, faintly peppery lift that ties the fruit and the herbs together. The base is the most complex layer: birch, cedar, ambroxan, musk, oak moss and labdanum combine for a dry, musky, mossy woodiness. Ambroxan gives it a clean, slightly synthetic-smooth amber-wood quality, musk rounds the whole base out with a soft skin-like warmth, and oak moss and labdanum add the earthy, slightly leathery depth that keeps the composition from feeling too polished. Taken together, this is a wide, multi-layered fragrance that moves from fruit to herb to dry musky wood, with texture rather than a single dominant accord at each stage. The sheer number of materials across the three layers — seventeen named notes in total — means no single ingredient is left to carry a stage on its own, which gives the fragrance a blended, well-worked quality rather than any one note reading as the star.
Early on, the fruit notes dominate — bergamot, black currant, apple and lemon give an immediate, energetic lift, with pink pepper adding a light prickle on top. As that fruit settles, the middle notes start to surface: pineapple keeps some of the fruitiness going while lavender, geranium and jasmine bring in a herbal-floral character, and elemi and patchouli begin to hint at the drier notes still to come. Further into the wear, the base takes over fully — birch, cedar, ambroxan, musk, oak moss and labdanum settle the fragrance into a dry, mossy, musky register that is considerably quieter and more grounded than the bright opening. The arc runs from loud and fruity to herbal to dry and woody-musky, with the base notes carrying the fragrance through the back half of the wear.
Azure Intense is treated as a unisex fragrance. The fruity-citrus opening and the musky-woody base are built from notes that work on either side of the aisle, and there is no strictly one-gender marketing angle attached to it.
Azure Intense suits anyone who wants a layered, fruity-fresh fragrance that settles into a dry, musky wood rather than staying purely citrus. The wide note count across all three layers gives it a textured, evolving character that works well for daily wear.
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Wide range of budget friendly to relatively high end priced perfume brands. Rayhan, Armaf, French Avenue, Brandy, Lattafa just to mention a few. They also sell a 10ml of any brand you like, good for testing before you commit to the whole bottle.
This store reminds me of my days in Dubai. Prices are competitive and most probably the best I have found on the market. Amazing perfumes!
Shahed was very welcoming and friendly… He was knowledgeable about the perfumes and took the time to understand what I was looking for before recommending a fragrance that suited my preferences perfectly.
What a good find! A place where you can smell all the Dubai perfumes. Monique assisted us and she was very helpful. Will see you soon!
Customer service 10/10. Tamzyn helped me she was very nice energetic and helpful… when I heard the price I had to take it. So very affordable in my opinion.
The quality of the fragrances is outstanding. The oils and perfumes are impressive and has longevity… I will definitely be returning and recommending this shop to others.
He was very helpful and friendly as I did not have a clue of what I wanted to get for my mom… It smells very nice. I got compliments at work… I would recommend people to go here.
Brandy Designs is a perfume brand from the United Arab Emirates, and we're its sole South African distributor.
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Yes. We're the sole South African distributor for Khadlaj, Orientica, Mural de Ruitz, La Beauté, Brandy Designs, Al Badar and Ilham. We buy their perfumes from the brands themselves, and each bottle arrives sealed in its original box.
Yes. You can test any perfume in our shops before you buy, and take home a 5ml, 10ml or 18ml decant to try first.
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Azure Intense opens on bergamot, black currant, apple, lemon and pink pepper, moves through pineapple, lavender, patchouli, jasmine, geranium and elemi, then settles into birch, cedar, ambroxan, musk, oak moss and labdanum. The progression runs fruity-fresh into herbal-floral into a dry, musky woodiness, with a wide note count that gives it a layered, textured feel. What Does Azure Intense Smell Like?The opening is built from five notes — bergamot, black currant, apple, lemon and pink pepper — and the black currant sits at the centre of the effect, giving the citrus a slightly tart, fruity depth rather than a plain sharp freshness. Apple adds a crisp, juicy edge alongside the bergamot and lemon, while pink pepper introduces a faint prickle that keeps the fruit from reading as sweet. It is a busy top accord, closer to a fruit basket than a single citrus note, and that density carries the fragrance's energy in its first phase. The middle brings pineapple, lavender, patchouli, jasmine, geranium and elemi — six notes working together, with pineapple continuing the fruity thread from the top while lavender and geranium bring in a herbal, slightly green quality. Jasmine softens that herbal edge with a touch of white floral warmth, patchouli starts to hint at the dry base to come, and elemi adds a resinous, faintly peppery lift that ties the fruit and the herbs together. The base is the most complex layer: birch, cedar, ambroxan, musk, oak moss and labdanum combine for a dry, musky, mossy woodiness. Ambroxan gives it a clean, slightly synthetic-smooth amber-wood quality, musk rounds the whole base out with a soft skin-like warmth, and oak moss and labdanum add the earthy, slightly leathery depth that keeps the composition from feeling too polished. Taken together, this is a wide, multi-layered fragrance that moves from fruit to herb to dry musky wood, with texture rather than a single dominant accord at each stage. The sheer number of materials across the three layers — seventeen named notes in total — means no single ingredient is left to carry a stage on its own, which gives the fragrance a blended, well-worked quality rather than any one note reading as the star. How Does It Develop Through the Day?Early on, the fruit notes dominate — bergamot, black currant, apple and lemon give an immediate, energetic lift, with pink pepper adding a light prickle on top. As that fruit settles, the middle notes start to surface: pineapple keeps some of the fruitiness going while lavender, geranium and jasmine bring in a herbal-floral character, and elemi and patchouli begin to hint at the drier notes still to come. Further into the wear, the base takes over fully — birch, cedar, ambroxan, musk, oak moss and labdanum settle the fragrance into a dry, mossy, musky register that is considerably quieter and more grounded than the bright opening. The arc runs from loud and fruity to herbal to dry and woody-musky, with the base notes carrying the fragrance through the back half of the wear. Is It for Men or Women?Azure Intense is treated as a unisex fragrance. The fruity-citrus opening and the musky-woody base are built from notes that work on either side of the aisle, and there is no strictly one-gender marketing angle attached to it. Who It's ForAzure Intense suits anyone who wants a layered, fruity-fresh fragrance that settles into a dry, musky wood rather than staying purely citrus. The wide note count across all three layers gives it a textured, evolving character that works well for daily wear. | Regular price
R 380.00
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| Brandy Designs | Eau de Parfum | Bergamot, Black Currant, Apple, Lemon, Pink Pepper | Pineapple, Lavender, Patchouli, Jasmine, Geranium, Elemi | Birch, Cedar, Ambroxan, Musk, Oak Moss, Labdanum |
Fragrance Notes
The first impression, and usually the lightest part of the fragrance. These notes evaporate first, which is how a fragrance is built to open.
As well as the top notes fading, your nose adapts to a constant scent and stops registering it, while people nearby still smell it. Smell your wrist after leaving the room, or ask someone close.
The main body of the scent, emerging as the top notes fade. It shapes how the fragrance smells once it settles on skin.
As well as the top notes fading, your nose adapts to a constant scent and stops registering it, while people nearby still smell it. Smell your wrist after leaving the room, or ask someone close.
Heavier molecules that evaporate slowly, like woods, musk, amber and oud. They are there from the start, and they are what remains once the rest has faded.
As well as the top notes fading, your nose adapts to a constant scent and stops registering it, while people nearby still smell it. Smell your wrist after leaving the room, or ask someone close.
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