On December 2, the UAE marks its 51st year since the nation was founded in 1971. With a lot of us preparing our homes and keeping it guest-ready for the holiday season, we’ve curated a list of home-grown items to help you along. This is your chance to shop 100 per cent local and give back to the community you call home.
Our handpicked items from Amazon cover a wide-range of products that are made in the UAE. You can offer little ones camel milk chocolate, prepare authentic Emirati coffee for friends and family, and perfume your living room with wood chips soaked in Arabic perfume oil. Don’t track your orders over days – become an Amazon Prime member today and get these delivered to you tomorrow.
1. Best Dates: Bayara Medjoul Dates, 500g
Dates and the UAE are culturally inseparable. Not only are these fruits nutritious, but they also make a healthy sweet snack. Impress the next throng of visitors with premium dates grown in the UAE on your table. Bayara's 500-gram pack offers medjoul dates, known as the 'fruit of the kings' for their sweet, caramel taste and chewy texture. Grab this box for your pantry, to always have on hand when sweet cravings strike.
2. Best Perfume for Men: Rasasi Entebaa Eau de Parfum, 100ml
Snap up this long-lasting fragrance for the young men in your life – be it a brother, cousin or friend. Rasasi’s bottle of Entebaa opens with fresh citrus and delicate lavender notes, builds to woody scents of patchouli and smoky vetiver, and finally crescendos to the warm, intoxicating notes of tonka beans, praline and vanilla. The perfect perfume for confident, successful men, it has a fresh, woody fragrance that is effortlessly alluring and can be worn at any time of the day.
3. Best Perfume for Women: Swiss Arabian Sehr Al Sheila Eau de Parfum, 100ml
Get traditional with Swiss Arabian’s Sehr Al Sheila perfume, that comes bottled in an elegant black container with a gold cap. It opens with uplifting notes of Damascus rose, carrying through the woody undertones of agarwood and oud, and ending with the sweet spiciness that patchouli and vanilla have to offer. It's a beautiful, ethereal scent to wear, not just today but every day.
4. Best Honey: Fresh Local Sidr Honey by Hatta Honey
Nothing is going to make your mornings sweeter than having a toasted bread lightly drizzled in honey sourced from the UAE. Hatta Honey’s Sidr glass jar is 330 grams of raw, unfiltered honey collected from the nectar of Sidr trees. Often sought after for its medicinal properties, Sidr honey is antibacterial and rich in taste.
5. Best Gift Set: Camel Soap Factory Natural Skin Rescue Face Care Gift Set
Give a loved one the perfect gift this National Day. This gift set fincludes Camel Soap Factory’s bestselling facial nourishing cream, formulated with fresh camel milk, Omani frankincense, moisturising shea butter and sweet almond oil. Combined with a healing soap, made from 100 per cent sustainable camel milk palm oil, which deeply hydrates and nourishes both the skin and the hair, it’s a wonderful gift set that anyone will love.
6. Best Arabic Coffee: Kava Noir Premium Arabic Ground Coffee, Emirati Style, 1kg
Sip on premium Emirati blend this month with Kava Noir’s pack of Arabic coffee produced in the UAE. While you’re at it, prepare the beverage in a traditional coffee pot called the dallah for the full experience. Arabic coffee is known for regulating blood pressure and its anti-inflammatory properties. You will taste hints of chocolate, nuts, fruits, berries and rich, spicy cardamom in this delicate blend.
7. Best Milk: Lacnor Full Cream Milk, 1 Litre (Pack of 12)
Famous for its juices and dairy products in the locality, Lacnor has 12 one-litre cartons of full cream milk up for a discounted price. The plain cow’s milk is free from preservatives and rich in calcium. Your afternoon tea or morning coffee will be all the better and creamier for it.
8. Best Incense: Swiss Arabian Muattar Al Majlis Bakhoor, Unisex
Nearly all Emirati households are doused in the heady scents of bukhoor (or bakhoor), which are perfumed wood chips. Get this box of Swiss Arabian Muattar Al Majlis Bakhoor to enjoy the luxurious scent of saffron and lavender coming together with the earthy fragrance of leather and resins, and enveloped in the richness of oud and amber. The ethereal scent lingers in every corner of your home.
9. Best Confections Gift Set: Al Nassma Camel Milk Chocolate Praline Gift Box
We offered you camel milk soap; how about camel milk chocolates? In this gift box, home-grown brand Al Nassma offers 18 praline pieces, with flavours ranging from hazelnut nougat and Arabic coffee to pistachio marzipan. The chocolates come in a hard box decked with a ribbon knot for a festive finish.
10. Best Apparel: Nukhbaa Women's Abaya, Red
Wow guests in a kimono-style, deep red abaya with intricate embroidery and a black headscarf. From medium to XXL, sizes by local brand Nukhbaa are for all. The material is 100 per cent polyester with buttons for closing and a waist ribbon to flatter your look.
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