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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.
Baraccat Gift Set opens on saffron and jasmine, a spicy-floral pairing that moves into amberwood and ambergris at the centre, before fir resin and cedar bring the composition to a close. The arc is short but deliberate: warm spice into soft amber into resinous wood, with no sweet or fruity detour along the way.
The opening pairs saffron with jasmine, and it is saffron that sets the tone — a dry, faintly leathery spice rather than anything sweet, with jasmine sitting alongside it to soften the edges without turning the top floral. It is a compact opening built from just two notes, so the spice-floral contrast is the whole story here rather than one element among many. Moving into the middle, amberwood and ambergris take over: amberwood brings a soft, slightly sweet woodiness that is warmer than a plain cedar or sandalwood, while ambergris adds the marine-tinged, skin-like warmth that amber accords are built around. Together they give the fragrance a rounded, glowing quality that reads as more ambery than woody at this stage. The base brings fir resin and cedar, and this is where the composition turns drier and more resinous — fir resin has a balsamic, slightly green edge that sits well against cedar's clean woodiness, grounding the amber accord from the middle rather than sweetening it further. Read top to bottom, the fragrance moves from dry spice to warm amber to resinous wood, a compact three-stage build rather than a wide, multi-note composition, which keeps its character direct and easy to place. With only six notes across the whole pyramid, nothing here is layered for complexity's sake — each stage hands off cleanly to the next, and the amber accord at the centre acts as the hinge between the drier spice above it and the drier resin below it, rather than sitting as a separate sweet phase of its own.
Saffron and jasmine lead the opening, and because there are only two top notes the shift into the middle happens fairly early — amberwood and ambergris start to show through as the initial spice softens, bringing the fragrance into its warmest, most ambery phase. This middle stretch is where the composition spends most of its visible character, the amber accord sitting centre stage for a good portion of the wear. As it moves further in, fir resin and cedar take over from the amber, pulling the fragrance into a drier, more resinous register that carries it through to the close. There is no return to the spice or floral opening once the base sets in — the arc runs one direction, from spice to amber to resin, without a sweet or gourmand turn at any point. Because the note count is low, the shifts between stages happen without much overlap — this reads as a fragrance with three distinct, fairly short chapters rather than a slow, many-layered evolution, which makes it easy to place and easy to predict once the opening has registered.
Baraccat Gift Set is built as a unisex fragrance. Saffron, jasmine, amberwood, ambergris, fir resin and cedar are all notes that sit comfortably on either side of the aisle, and there is no sharply gendered marketing angle attached to this one.
Baraccat Gift Set suits anyone after a compact, ambery-resinous fragrance for cooler weather or evening wear. The saffron-jasmine opening gives it a spicy lift without sweetness, and the amberwood-ambergris-fir resin-cedar progression keeps it warm and grounded rather than light or fresh.
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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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Baraccat Gift Set opens on saffron and jasmine, a spicy-floral pairing that moves into amberwood and ambergris at the centre, before fir resin and cedar bring the composition to a close. The arc is short but deliberate: warm spice into soft amber into resinous wood, with no sweet or fruity detour along the way. What Does Baraccat Gift Set Smell Like?The opening pairs saffron with jasmine, and it is saffron that sets the tone — a dry, faintly leathery spice rather than anything sweet, with jasmine sitting alongside it to soften the edges without turning the top floral. It is a compact opening built from just two notes, so the spice-floral contrast is the whole story here rather than one element among many. Moving into the middle, amberwood and ambergris take over: amberwood brings a soft, slightly sweet woodiness that is warmer than a plain cedar or sandalwood, while ambergris adds the marine-tinged, skin-like warmth that amber accords are built around. Together they give the fragrance a rounded, glowing quality that reads as more ambery than woody at this stage. The base brings fir resin and cedar, and this is where the composition turns drier and more resinous — fir resin has a balsamic, slightly green edge that sits well against cedar's clean woodiness, grounding the amber accord from the middle rather than sweetening it further. Read top to bottom, the fragrance moves from dry spice to warm amber to resinous wood, a compact three-stage build rather than a wide, multi-note composition, which keeps its character direct and easy to place. With only six notes across the whole pyramid, nothing here is layered for complexity's sake — each stage hands off cleanly to the next, and the amber accord at the centre acts as the hinge between the drier spice above it and the drier resin below it, rather than sitting as a separate sweet phase of its own. How Does It Develop Through the Day?Saffron and jasmine lead the opening, and because there are only two top notes the shift into the middle happens fairly early — amberwood and ambergris start to show through as the initial spice softens, bringing the fragrance into its warmest, most ambery phase. This middle stretch is where the composition spends most of its visible character, the amber accord sitting centre stage for a good portion of the wear. As it moves further in, fir resin and cedar take over from the amber, pulling the fragrance into a drier, more resinous register that carries it through to the close. There is no return to the spice or floral opening once the base sets in — the arc runs one direction, from spice to amber to resin, without a sweet or gourmand turn at any point. Because the note count is low, the shifts between stages happen without much overlap — this reads as a fragrance with three distinct, fairly short chapters rather than a slow, many-layered evolution, which makes it easy to place and easy to predict once the opening has registered. Is It for Men or Women?Baraccat Gift Set is built as a unisex fragrance. Saffron, jasmine, amberwood, ambergris, fir resin and cedar are all notes that sit comfortably on either side of the aisle, and there is no sharply gendered marketing angle attached to this one. Who It's ForBaraccat Gift Set suits anyone after a compact, ambery-resinous fragrance for cooler weather or evening wear. The saffron-jasmine opening gives it a spicy lift without sweetness, and the amberwood-ambergris-fir resin-cedar progression keeps it warm and grounded rather than light or fresh. | Regular price
R 490.00
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| Brandy Designs | Eau de Parfum | Saffron, Jasmine | Amberwood, Ambergris | Fir Resin, Cedar |
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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