On December 2, the UAE marks its 53rd 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: Happy Earth Organic Filled Dates, Dubai Blue
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 Arabia, on your table. Happy Earth Organic, a UAE-based business, offers a box full of organic segai and khidri dates, which are hand-stuffed with roasted almonds, pecans, or pistachios. Grab this box for your pantry, to always have on hand when sweet cravings strike.
2. Best Perfume for Men: Rasasi Hamasaat Eau de Parfum
Looking for your new signature scent? Check out Rasasi's Hamasaat. It opens with an invigorating blend of exotic ingredients - saffron, bergamot and orange - which then take on the nuanced freshness of mint, and hints of pink pepper. The notes then lead into a heart of sandalwood, patchouli and cardamom, creating a warm, spicy profile that ends in a luxurious base of amber and white musk. The overall result is a sophisticated, refined scent for those seeking the perfect balance of warmth and vibrancy.
3. Best Perfume for Women: Swiss Arabian Sehr Al Sheila Eau de Parfum
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: Ghaf 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 Ghaf Honey glass jar is 500 grams of 100% pure and raw honey, collected from the nectar and pollen of Ghaf trees, which are local desert trees that are drought-and temperature-resistant. The honey is harvested from Dubai-based Hatta Honey Bee Garden. Here's a fun fact: The Ghaf tree is also the UAE’s national tree and is considered a symbol of tolerance.
5. Best Arabic Coffee: Tamr Wa Qhwah Umm Bader Emirati Coffee
Sip on premium Emirati coffee this month, with Umm Bader Emirati Coffee. Made with 100 per cent natural Arabic coffee beans, this dark roast presents coffee drinkers with a rich and pleasant drinking experience every time. It's an ode to olden times, when Emirati men and women would methodically prepare the best traditional coffee, called 'qahwa', at home. If you'd like the full experience, prepare the beverage in a traditional coffee pot called the dallah, and be transported in time. Arabic coffee is known for regulating blood pressure and its anti-inflammatory properties.
6. Best Juice: Lacnor Essentials Cranberry Fruit Drink (12-Pack)
Lacnor is well known for its juices and dairy products in the Emirates, so enjoy this pack of 12 cranberry juice boxes with family and friends as you celebrate Eid Al Etihad. The delicious juice is enriched with vitamin C, and you can rest assured that it has no preservatives, artificial colours or flavours.
7. Best Incense: Swiss Arabian Muattar Mumtaz Bakhoor
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 Mumtaz Bakhoor to enjoy the luxurious scent of rose, hyacinth and geranium coming together with the earthy fragrance of clove, ylang ylang and resins, and enveloped in the richness of oud and amber. The ethereal scent lingers in every corner of your home.
8. 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.
9. Best Apparel: Nukhbaa Women's Abaya
Wow guests in a kimono-style, black abaya, embellished with rows of starry silver in the front and on the ends of the sleeves. From medium to XXL, sizes by local brand Nukhbaa are for all. The material is 100 per cent polyester with buttons for closing. There are a range of designs and colours for every style.
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