Oud Ambar

A natural rich perfume oil with only two ingredients. A dreamy rich natural amber (in this case a combination of ambergris and musk mallow or ambrette seeds) and a lovely non skanky Hindi Oud oil. The resulting juice is a simple lovely beauty - full of warmth, comfort and having a dream like ambience. Pricey yes ($600 for 8 ml). Worth it? Totally if you are into this type of stuff. Sustainable natural perfumery at its finest. Enjoy!

The amber note is formed by a generous dose of labdanum resinoid, atlas cedar, and possibly virginia cedar. Rounded off by smaller amounts of vanillin, patchouli and a sweet resin like benzoin or rectified peru balsam. The fecal note appears to be civette synthetic by Firmenich (still very elegant) - the fecal top note is a dead giveaway. Civette Synth Firmenich is very elegant and avoids the ethical and legal issues that may arise from real civet paste or tincture. In the dry down I notice a hefty amount of smokiness that reads like pyrogenated labdanum extract (hydrocarboresine). I don't smell any telltale signs of agarwoods or ambergris, but this is still a very elegant, naturalistic perfume. It stands out with distinction in today's world of ethyl vanillin/ambrocenide bombs.