Arabesque The Merchant Of Venice 2015

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Ranked 72 in Unisex Perfume

8.4 / 10 979 Ratings

A popular perfume by The Merchant Of Venice for women and men, released in 2015. The scent is sweet-oriental. The longevity is above-average. It is being marketed by Mavive.

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Main accords

Sweet

Oriental

Spicy

Gourmand

Fruity

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Plum

Tobacco leaf

Ginger

Heart Notes

Cinnamon

Tonka bean

Cedarwood

Base Notes

Benzoin

White musk

Vetiver

Ratings

Scent

8.4979 Ratings

Longevity

8.4878 Ratings

Sillage

7.8866 Ratings

Bottle

8.9827 Ratings

Value for money

7.1436 Ratings

Submitted by Labormaus, last update on 25.04.2024.

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28 in-depth fragrance descriptions

11/17/2018

DeepRiver
1 Review

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DeepRiver

Top Review 149

I'll treat myself to it today ..

My mother has been ill for years and is therefore very reluctant to leave the house. It's a real art to persuade her to leave her familiar surroundings. But a week ago I got a call and she asked me if I would like to accompany her to help her with her Christmas shopping. So we drove to Düsseldorf and had a look at all kinds of shops, but we were seldom so enthusiastic about anything. She's a very modest woman, which I can't understand. My father has a very good job in a big company and they don't have to worry about anything financially, but she only wishes the best to all people, but never actually treats herself to anything.

Well, on that day we also visited a big department store and hoped to find a great coat for my father. On the way there we strolled through the perfume department and stopped there so that I could test some new fragrances. Meanwhile my mother talked to a saleswoman, told her that she has only been using Chanel No 5 and Coco for twenty years and doesn't necessarily want to test something new, but she liked a bottle very much. After pointing to The Merchant Of Venice flacons, the lady encouraged you to spray on some fragrances without obligation. She doesn't have to buy anything, but she would just smell something new. She didn't like the first two tested very much, but when they handed her the test strip with Arabesque I saw her smile for the first time that day.

Mothers really do everything for you, if you have problems you usually go to the mother, they stand for us no matter what you do and they would kill for us. There are 2xx euros but really not much. I was just about to tell her to wrap the fragrance up, so she said, "YOU GOY ME TODAY," which is just so beautiful.

We didn't really find much nice in Düsseldorf, but she found a short time of light-heartedness, and we two had a really great day for a long time.

I know this comment doesn't say anything about the scent, but somehow I wanted to share the story. Fragrances can do so much, it surprises me again and again

10/15/2018

10
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 8.5
Scent

MiriamHa
14 Reviews

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MiriamHa

Top Review 52

The world hasn't seen that yet

17.12.16, 19:34, 4°C, Hansastraße 24. Dark blue coat, black pantyhose, night blue bag, brown boots, sweaty mind, showered skin, steaming breath. No sex of the genitals, but sex of the bodies, dancing body. A parallel universe in this temporary studio, amateurs on top of their feet and emotional performance. Fighting with balance and against gravity, for aesthetics and against exhaustion. I've been dancing for three years, I've been going through hell for one. I liked him from the beginning, I obviously liked him later, but then with double intensity. He wanted me, perhaps more passionate than this other woman, but probably not as consistent as he wanted her to be. I accepted it, cried a lot, ate little, slept moderately. I felt so strange, decoupled from myself, like a robot that works because it has to for the sake of other people, not for itself. L'amour pour l'amour, moi-même pour le toi. I only had one wish at the time, and that wish wasn't even you. I wanted to finally see again, a perspective that wasn't named after you.
Only when I had left my ways could I also leave you and with you this abyss. You put all that away like an old 5 euro bill, I like a heavy defeat.
Almost two years later I sit here, your letter in front of me asking to see you again. I have nothing left of you, not even the ancient passport photo I stole from you. Still, I don't have to think long to remember all that we (weren't). And what were we? Well, we were a lot of ballet, common evenings in your kitchen, abstinence, infatuation, hope, despair, bubble baths and burning hair, tears, ignorance, passion, Arabic restaurants and Spanish music, and far too much fear.
You were a storm cloud, and I was a perfume. You were Égoïste and I was Arabesque. Not that it was important to you; you didn't even know what scent I was wearing. But I knew it. I stood in your bathroom and dusted myself with your perfume, got myself a bottle to spray away the many uncertainties. And whenever I wanted to stop wanting you, I'd go for arabesque. Because I felt beautiful with it, because I was more confident, and above all because it comforted me to have a little warmth in my hair in our cooled romance. I felt cold evening air and warm cinnamon, clear senses in a tipsy plum, bland loneliness with spicy tobacco. It made my nights a little more tender, my days a little more comfortable. Yes, that scent distracted me from yours. I could relax better, even meditate, and once again be self-centered. Many bathtub fillings and good books later I started to stop waiting for you. At some point the scent was empty and with it my feelings for you. I never reordered it, even though I liked it a lot.
Now I hold your letter in my hands, clearly, this is Égoïste. I'll answer you for old time's sake. But first I'll have a bottle of arabesque - for my sake.

01/16/2019

10
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

DonJuanDeCat
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DonJuanDeCat

Top Review 30

Musical fragrance cloud, decorated with tendril ornaments

Hey hey, you guys okay? :)
Today I come to Arabesque, a fragrance from "The Merchant of Venice".

So, what's an arabesque anyway? Well... we Turks understand by it a music style (mostly a mix of folk music and pop music), which is especially popular in Turkey and deals with things like (unfulfilled) love, everyday worries, suffering, pain and tears and such things. So actually somehow topics that appear in almost every piece of music or music genre, even in such directions as Death Metal or similar genres, where you either because of the louder music or the smoky-scratchy voices hardly understand the lyrics anymore, especially if you either don't know the genre or listen to these songs for the first time :DD

Soo, then an arabesque is the artistic decoration in the form of tendril ornaments of houses, picture frames, porcelain and many other objects. Especially in the Renaissance the style was used, you know, around the years between the 15th and the beginning of the 17th century, if your knowledge in art history should be rusty, he he.

The fragrance here seems to be more devoted to the form of decoration, as can easily be seen from the plant tendrils on the bottle, but more on this later in the bottle description.
However, he should also spray an oriental scent, but we can see that right now!

The fragrance:

The fragrance begins quite well with a sweet cinnamon note, which also reminds a little of amber. The beginning has something of Burberry's London for Men, which is also a really nice fragrance. Anyway, then a clear tobacco note is added, which also smells quite nice, there is a little bit of ginger in addition. I also smell the plum, but probably less intensely than it appears here in the fragrance pyramid (but it's only my perception anyway, and you know that everyone smells different).
Later cedar wood is added, which you can smell out well. Although the fragrance was a little spicy a short time ago, the fragrance is now softer and softer, I think this is due to the benzoin, which is a beautiful resin and slightly vanilla sweetish fragrance. And maybe it's also because of the softness of the fragrance that I can smell the plums much better now than before. The sweetness still seems a little bit like amber to me by the way, that's probably the impression from the mix of all the sweet notes like cinnamon and musk here.
Later the tobacco looks a little more intensive again or can be smelled better again, which makes the scent more bitter, but the scent remains soft because of its soft notes. Generally a very nice fragrance!

The Sillage and the shelf life:

The Sillage is quite good, because you quickly dive into a larger scent cloud, which can then also smell others very well on you, without having to get too close.
Also the durability is top, since the fragrance loosely lasts more than twelve hours.

The bottle:

As always, the bottle has the shape of a vase or (old-fashioned) retro lamp and looks very beautiful. This one is blue and has golden tendril ornaments, just like the definition of an arabesque. The brand name was engraved in the golden neck of the bottle, the fragrance name stands on a gold-plated plaque, which hangs like a chain on the neck of the bottle. The lid is a semicircular structure and is also gold-plated. Looks very nice all in all!

Soo, so, I've been told that I definitely need to test this scent. So he was forced upon me, if you want to put it that way, he he. No, but seriously, the recommendation of this fragrance was really great, because the fragrance really, really smells good. I also like the tobacco note, which makes the fragrance unisex rather than feminine.

Due to its intense charisma and good durability, and the already very great scent, Arabesque has become for me a night scent or a fragrance for the evening, you know, just to smell tasty, but also elegant. It's a fragrance that doesn't get on your nerves, that doesn't have anything synthetic on it and that you like to smell, no matter if you smell it yourself or others, in my opinion it should always go down well! Well, at least in autumn and winter, as it might seem a bit too heavy for warm days.

In any case a very testable scent, so it was good that the perfuma, which kindly sent me a sample, annoyed me so long that I should finally test the scent! :DD

Well then, have a nice evening and see you next time! :)

07/31/2018

10
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Jas0N
29 Reviews

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Jas0N

Top Review 27

When perfume art becomes a problem

It starts with the bottle. This is art. You were creative and you wanted to stage something. I'd have waved 80% off by now. If more time is invested in the creative design of the vessel, the content is usually grotesque and absolutely incongruent with the content.

But here far missed. The content is beautiful. I'm crystallizing a problem, though. But this one is not alone with the problem: "perfume art".

As a reference I like to use the series of Mr. Tauer. Lonestar, L'Oudh, LDDM. They all smell great if not beautiful. But they are also all in the cupboard and are used once a year if at all. I need an occasion. And that's not given here. As much as I want the decorative lamp - aptly written by FabianO - there are few moments when I can use it.

The cinnamon-plum combination is nevertheless very unusual and convinces. The first moments are pervaded by a really sweet snapshot, but it is by no means sticky or overdone.
Asbald blends in something bitter-fruity and the fragrance moves away from its initial line. Very much designed for harmony, the fragrance gets a more tart touch that ends orientally on tobacco. Round and harmonious. Present but not on riot off.

But the initial discourse has remained:
I can't find a reason. Maybe for a feel-good scent. At home. Then one filling is sufficient.
He's too feminine for a date. For the hot summer days he is out of the question anyway and at work I rather wear classic scents.

All this is my subjective opinion and everyone who finds the right moment, be it absolutely granted.
The fact that perfume art becomes the only criticism here, however, does not result in a loss of points.
The scent is still beautiful!

09/08/2019

9
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Melisse2
24 Reviews

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Melisse2

Top Review 28

Minty Tobacco Plum - Big Cinema on Sunday Afternoon

I had already written off this scent for myself. "Cute" is in the description, cinnamon in the pyramid. I shouldn't like that one.

Nevertheless, I had taken part in a sharing. After the sprayer had run out during shipping and the envelope smelled only disgustingly sweet and vanilla, I was sure: God hadn't intended this scent for me.

Now I could test him. Jakobolino, thank you for this wonderful Sunday surprise.
For months I haven't had such a direct hit under my nose.

I smell Tonka and Benzoe of the most pleasant kind. The Tonkanote does not go in the direction of bitter almond (and has also nothing of the antibiotic juice to the self-stirring, which I perceive otherwise with Tonka sometimes). Instead, the notes underline the fullness, spiciness and astringency of the tobacco and take everything herbaceous away from it. Like Sweetsmell I smell mint, probably this is the delicate spiciness of ginger.

The perfect player of tobacco in this fragrance is a fruity plum. Not a plum in a cake, but a plum on a tree. Cinnamon is capitalized in the pyramid. As a cinnamon fugitive, this spice should bother me. But it doesn't. Instead, I only suspect a hint of cinnamon that accentuates the plum
Unexpectedly, I found my tobacco scent this afternoon, which goes in a completely different direction than I thought up before

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