{"product_id":"ibraq-elixir-de-bronze-twilight-secret-set","title":"ELIXIR DE BRONZE Twilight Secret Set","description":"\u003ch1\u003eIBRAQ Elixir De Bronze Twilight Secrets Set: What Is Actually in the Box, and Why\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIBRAQ Elixir De Bronze is a unisex eau de parfum from the Saudi house Ibrahim Al Qurashi, composed by the perfumer Quentin Bisch. Orange blossom, rum and jasmine open it. Tobacco, coconut and violet leaves fill the middle. Tonka bean, vanilla and labdanum close it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe three-piece set is more interesting than it looks. Two of the bottles hold IBRAQ Elixir De Bronze. The third holds something else entirely, composed by a second perfumer. That third bottle is the whole design, and nobody selling the set explains it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eIBRAQ Elixir De Bronze: the short version\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat it is\u003c\/strong\u003e: Unisex eau de parfum, composed by Quentin Bisch.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSmells like: \u003c\/strong\u003eBoozy and warm. Rum and orange blossom over tobacco, coconut and vanilla.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe set holds\u003c\/strong\u003e: A full flacon, a travel refill of it, and a small bottle of its partner scent.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBest for\u003c\/strong\u003e: Evenings, cool weather, and anyone who likes sweet tobacco.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe brand\u003c\/strong\u003e: A contemporary Saudi house whose legacy starts in Makkah in 1929.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is in the 3-piece set\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFull bottle\u003c\/strong\u003e: IBRAQ Elixir De Bronze eau de parfum, 150 ml.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTravel size\u003c\/strong\u003e: The same scent again, 20 ml.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThird piece\u003c\/strong\u003e: D’Or Trésor, 20 ml. A separate release by a separate perfumer.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNote the 150 ml. IBRAQ Elixir De Bronze does not use the 100 ml that most Gulf releases do, so a price comparison against a 100 ml bottle is not like for like. Check the millilitres before judging value.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eELIXIR DE BRONZE Fragrance Notes:\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTop Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e: Rum, Orange Blossom, Jasmine. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMiddle Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e: Tobacco, Coconut, Violet Leaves, Cashmeran.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBase Notes\u003c\/strong\u003e: Tonka Bean, Vanilla, Labdanum.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne correction worth making, because retailers repeat the error. Some listings give the heart note of IBRAQ Elixir De Bronze as cashmere. The material is cashmeran, a synthetic woody musk that borrowed the fabric’s name and shares nothing else with it. No fragrance contains cashmere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat does IBRAQ Elixir De Bronze smell like?\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIBRAQ Elixir De Bronze opens boozy and floral at once. Rum reads warm and slightly syrupy, orange blossom gives it a clean white-floral lift, and jasmine deepens that without turning heavy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe middle is where the character sits. Tobacco brings dry sweetness, coconut adds a creamy edge rather than a beachy one, violet leaves cut through with something green and faintly metallic, and cashmeran hums underneath as a clean woody musk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe base of IBRAQ Elixir De Bronze is straightforwardly comforting. Tonka bean and vanilla deliver the sweetness, and labdanum adds a resinous, slightly leathery depth that stops the whole thing turning into dessert.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe published accord ranking leads on sweet, then tobacco and vanilla, with rum close behind. Anyone who finds sweet tobacco fragrances cloying should take that ranking seriously.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe set is a cross-sample, not a bundle\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost three-piece perfume sets give you one scent in three formats: a bottle, a travel spray, and a lotion or a shower gel. IBRAQ Elixir De Bronze does something else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo bottles here carry the fragrance you chose. The third carries D’Or Trésor, composed by Jordi Fernández. That piece is not a format at all. It is a second perfume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe companion product proves the intent. Order the Trésor version and the proportions simply invert, down to a small bottle of IBRAQ Elixir De Bronze sitting in the box. The mirror is exact, so whichever one you pick, the house puts the other in your hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhich makes the practical advice clear. Buy the set of whichever fragrance you already know you want, and treat the third bottle as a paid trial of its partner rather than as a bonus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTwilight Secrets is a pair: dusk and dawn\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection name describes a time of day, and the two fragrances take one end each. The brand presents IBRAQ Elixir De Bronze as twilight, and D’Or Trésor as the first light of dawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe compositions follow that split honestly. IBRAQ Elixir De Bronze is warm, boozy and dark: rum, tobacco, vanilla. D’Or Trésor runs the other way on pear, bergamot and mandarin, with orange blossom, lily of the valley and rose in the heart over sandalwood, amber and musk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne material links IBRAQ Elixir De Bronze to its partner. Orange blossom sits in the top of Elixir De Bronze and in the heart of D’Or Trésor, which means the same note greets you at different depths depending on which bottle you reach for. That is a deliberate bridge, not a coincidence of sourcing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorth knowing about the dawn one: lily of the valley yields no extract at all. Every muguet note in perfumery is reconstructed from other materials, so that part of D’Or Trésor is a perfumer’s interpretation rather than a plant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTwo named perfumers, which is the real signal\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQuentin Bisch composed IBRAQ Elixir De Bronze. He is French, born in Strasbourg in 1983, and he reached the industry sideways: refused the standard chemistry route, he took a performing-arts degree, wrote to the major houses, and was taken on as an assistant perfumer at the Robertet laboratory in Grasse before training at Givaudan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJordi Fernández composed D’Or Trésor. He is also a Givaudan perfumer, and he turns up on Gulf mass-market releases as well as niche work, which tells you something about how fluid that line has become.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere is the part that matters about IBRAQ Elixir De Bronze. Gulf houses at this price almost never publish a perfumer credit. Walk through the recent releases and the field is blank: no credited nose, or a credit that traces to one database and nowhere else. IBRAQ puts the perfumer’s name in the product title and in the web address.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat is niche-house behaviour, and it is a commitment. Naming the composer makes a house accountable for the work in a way an anonymous release never is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWho IBRAQ Elixir De Bronze suits\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIBRAQ Elixir De Bronze belongs to evenings and the colder months, on someone who enjoys sweet tobacco and does not want it thinned out. The rum and coconut push it sweeter than most tobacco fragrances, so it is the wrong pick for anyone who wants dry and smoky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe set suits the curious buyer better than the decided one. If you want IBRAQ Elixir De Bronze and nothing else, the standalone bottle is the cleaner purchase.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IBRAHEEM Al QURASHI","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57374007624058,"sku":"6287020286438","price":99.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0570\/0891\/4541\/files\/IBRAQ-Elixir-De-Bronze-Twilight-Secrets-Set.jpg?v=1791488584","url":"https:\/\/zaoud.it\/nl\/products\/ibraq-elixir-de-bronze-twilight-secret-set","provider":"ZAOUD - Profumi Arabi di Nicchia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}