ABU DHABI

Eau De Parfum by GALLIVANT

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Abu Dhabi is a hot, dry and spicy unisex fragrance. A modern take on the classic fougère construction

EAU DE PARFUM

A hot, dry, spicy perfume

Hot sand, dazzling light and a breeze from the desert

 Notes: cypress, pink pepper, clary sage, rosemary, saffron, geranium, orris, cedarwood, patchouli, leather

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THE STORY

Hot golden sand

Dazzling bright light

A breeze from the desert

Dry and spicy. Cypress & pink pepper

Pristine white robes. A falconer's leather gloves. Saffron, geranium and orris

THE PERFUME

Our Abu Dhabi perfume opens with cypress, pink pepper,
peppermint, rosemary, cardamom and cistus.

The heart of this perfume is composed around clary sage, saffron, geranium and orris.

And the base, with its beautifully memorable sillage, evocative of the desert breeze, is 
constructed with cedarwood, patchouli, leather notes and musks.

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For our UK customers:

Local pick up is free & your order can be collected from our studio at The Factory, 21-31 Shacklewell Lane, Dalston, Hackney, London, E8 2DA

Monday - Friday 11am-6pm

UK Standard delivery (4-6 working days) costs £5.00 for orders below £120.00.

For our customers in the EU (orders are sent via The Netherlands)

Standard Delivery will take between 10 and 14 working days

We deliver to the following countries as shown for all orders below £120

For £7.50 to:

  • Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia

 For £10 to:

  • Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Monaco, Portugal (excluding the Açores and Madeira), Romania, Slovenia, Spain (excluding the Canary Islands, and Ceuta and Melilla), Sweden

For our customers in continental USA:

Standard delivery (4-6 working days) costs £5.00 for orders below £120.00.

Unfortunately, we're not able to deliver to P.O boxes or APO/FPO addresses, military states or U.S territories.

From Gallivant founder Nick

The Abu Dhabi Story

“With this fragrance I capture some of the romance, adventure and the beautiful simplicity I first read about in Wilfred Thesinger’s Arabian Sands while I studied Arabic at university. That was my first experience of the Emirates and Abu Dhabi. Incandescent light, the sand horizon, the shifting splendour of the dunes, the warm wind from the Empty Quarter, the Rub al Khali desert.”

“I wanted to evoke an expedition across the dunes and give it a kind of sepia-tinged minimalism. So there’s most definitely a dose of nostalgia in this composition, a neo-vintage feeling. I was seeking an emotional echo of those era-defining perfumes from the late 80s and 1990s such as Bel Ami and Fahrenheit, composed by the legendary Jean-Louis Sieuzac.”

The perfume notes:

Top: the scent opens with cypress, pink pepper, peppermint, rosemary, cardamom and cistus

Mid: the heart of this perfume is composed around clary sage, saffron, geranium and orris

Base: the drydown, with its beautifully memorable sillage, evocative of the desert breeze, is constructed with cedarwood, patchouli, leather notes and musks

Meet the maker

For the creation of the Abu Dhabi fragrance, founder Nick Steward called on Lucas Sieuzac, a frequent traveller to the Emirates

Says Nick “I love working with Lucas – first of all it’s a very enjoyable philosophical conversation, about perfume and other matters. And at the same time coloured with an easy-going humour. I greatly enjoy Lucas’ lightness of being, his effortless precision and simplicity. And then there is something classic, clear-thinking in his composition, with a neo-vintage vibe, an old school elegance I find in the Emirati culture. Elegant, uncluttered - and to the point.”

Adds Lucas “this perfume symbolizes for me the fine line between modernity and tradition, which feels like a very Emirati characteristic. We’ve blended key ingredients of traditional Middle Eastern perfumery - spices like saffron, pink pepper, as well as balsamic accented cistus and leather - alongside the components of a modern fougère construction – such as rosemary, cypress, clary sage, geranium, and orris, on a bed of cedarwood, patchouli and musks.”