Ambre Elixir Precieux

a beautiful amber. it opens with overpowering dirty, animalic, leathery and slightly smoky nuances for the first minutes. after an half hour it dries down to a beautiful oily, thick, cozy, warm, resinous and slightly sweet amber without completely loosing the dirty elements from the opening. everytime i wear this it reminds me strongly of a less airy, very concentrated, tunded up, more challenging and more faceted version of tom ford‘s amber absolute mixed with serge lutens’ ambre sultan and profumum romas‘s ambra aurea. (wich is a good thing to me and probably the reason why i bought this ridicoulos priced oil..) the description from the house dior says "ambre contains amber of animal origin..“ to me this smells like the amber made of bezoin/labdanum/vanilla, not ambergis (the animalic one, often called amber too) this very potent stuff; just a tiny dab creates a surprisingly big sillage; you will get noticed. i just think the longevity could be better for an perfume extrait; on paper i can smell this for days, but on skin/fabrics just a few hours. i suggest to wear this pure at rainy days. the botte is gorgeous. the price is insane.

My favorite fragrance from Dior is Ambre Nuit. When they launched the elixir, I was thinking about getting the Amber or Rose because it would blend great together. I got a tiny sample of both from an associate in Las Vegas and I have to say that the Amber is AMAZING and blends very well with my fragrance. The Rose not so much. The only thing is the price point. $300 seems too high for a 0.1oz bottle.

The price tag is very high, but I have to admit that the projection is nuclear. But to my nose, what I get, is a nutty and very smoky vetiver, like Etro Vetiver. Am I nuts? Did I take the wrong sample? No... I already have a full bottle of Etro's, no sample. I would swear there's a lot of vetiver here... weird.

This is amber and for me it took an hour for it to settle into an amber smell. I was told that it would last for days and to be careful however this did not last more than 10 hours. I guess my skin ate it up which is have a habit of doing. I wanted to use it and a base to mix and help my other perfumes last longer but in the end it doesnt last terribly long so I am going to use Armani Prive Ambre Eccentrico until I can find something even more long-lasting.

The reviewer below doesn't seem to know what they are talking about. @Adam's Oud does differentiate very well between various ambers. I suggest if one does not know the basics then one should listen well before speaking up or it can end up being utter nonsense. This is a review section and should contain information and no trolling.