Amber Mirabilis

Very dark,intense/resinous perfume. This is very nice, enveloping and mysterious. This scent lags far back in time, in some age, it is very voluptuous. I didn't like the opening very much but the drydown is very beautiful with the note of suede and the rose,at this point the perfume becomes more sweet and dusty/ancient... complex and mysterious perfume, beautiful! Sillage: 7.5/10 Longevity: 8.5/10 Scent: 8.5/10 Overall: 8.5/10

This is a soft & smooth unisex scent with gourmand qualities leaning to feminine scents. It's a velvety smooth amber (yes, thr note combo gives the amber effect) but it's not for me. This is a soft & smooth unisex scent with gourmand qualities leaning to feminine scents. It's a velvety smooth amber (yes, the note combo gives the amber effect) but it's not for me. Highly recommended for year round use especially for spring and fall. I get a super smooth sweet amber (very strong resins and very strong toffee note with traces of vanilla) and a sugary vibe. It feels close to Boucheron Ambre D'Alexandrie . It's gorgeous and edible. As time passes the amber effect fades out revealling the induvidual notes. The delicate sweetness is still present and a light powdery vibe emerges. The toffee note is very strong at the opening and it fades out in late drydown. Performance isn't great. Moderate longevuty with soft sillage/projection. After half an hour and you have a nice skin scent. This is the only minus of all Keiko scents that I've tried.

This is a woody perfume with a little bit of patcholi which helps with the woody part, a bit of cedar which makes the wood really come alive and set you down on the grass. Then you smell excotic spices that I love, and you should too! And while you are lying on the grass of heaven, you will smell roses slowly building up around you. And a a bit of oud from the tree beside you. Then it SLOWLY dies down, down, down till you can't smell it any more. Then you spray some more and off we go again!! 9/10 :) :) :)

So much wood, so much exotic spices, very easy to wear!

Not an amber A very jammy rose, a forest fruits jam, on a distant woody-balsamic base...ok but too much of white musc who submerges the composition and deleat all interesting edges like in the same style as all the designer perfume compositions of F. Kurkdjian. This easy trick to make the perfume easy to like, drowns out the notes without allowing it to assert itself and potentially become really superb or at least not an other pretty commercial perfume...especially for this price. A skin scent, no sillage, lasts 3h...impossible to smell if someone near you wear a perfume already. Again a fake niche creation... musk+ jammy fruits => Mûre et musc by L'Artisan Parfumeur offers a better one in this style even 40 years after his creation.

I get the idea that a lot of the perfumes in this collection aren't mainly about their title ingredient. Bal de Roses isn't necessarily rosey. Amber Mirabilis isn't a typical amber perfume. Amber is a made-up note, but the general consensus among perfumers seems to be that it's warm, sweet, golden, sometimes smokey, or goopy, or vanilla-based. Amber Mirabilis is not really any of these things, although sometimes there is this smokiness that reminds me of incense burning in a church. Amber Mirabilis reminds me of this huge ornate wooden chest from Indonesia that my grandma had all her life. She kept her wedding dress in there, and whenever she opened the box there would be the scent of wood (what kind of wood it was, I still don't know), slightly stale and dusty, but rich and even slightly reminiscent of cloves and cardamom. On my skin a wet, natural smelling patchouli dominates during the opening stages. During the drydown the patchouli note becomes drier, and the spices and a dark wood note start to show more and more. Here a smokey note also becomes noticeable. The absolute drydown is a soft whisper of agarwood, much lighter than during the earlier stages, happier and younger and no longer dusty smelling, and a very light sprinkling of the spices that were noticeable during the heart of the fragrance. I love the imagery Sherapop mentions; I can imagine Lucretia Borgia roaming the Vatican at night with this fragrance leaving a faint trail behind her.

To celebrate the holidays, I've decided to indulge in the beautiful Keiko Mecheri Bespoke collection purse spray coffret. Last night I wore Bal de Roses, and right now I'm luxuriating in Ambre Mirabilis. All of these perfumes are extremely rich, very dense, more like extraits than edps. They are basically the opposite of the mall juice being pumped out of vats into tacky bottles with big hats and fobbed off as perfume. Ambre Mirabilis features lots of amber, but also lots of spice, and cumin is one of the contenders. Somehow in this blend it does not evoke the usual body odor plus sweat scent of overly cumin-laden perfumes. I'm not surprised, though, since Keiko Mecheri is meticulous about her perfumes and holds aesthetics to be of paramount importance. Ugliness has no place in her oeuvre. Ambre Mirabilis is also somewhat woody, and boasts both oud and patchouli, but really all of the components are melded together into the feeling of splendor. This is definitely not a "boring" amber, as those who dislike that genre refer to it. I've been watching The Borgias lately, and the lavish trappings of the Catholic church in the 15th century pretty much reflect Ambre Mirabilis. This is perfume as it used to be conceptualized. Today all sorts of body sprays and personal hygiene aids and office-ready inoffensive fruity-floral frags are being sold as perfumes. Ambre Mirabilis harks back to earlier days, when perfume was both beautiful and dangerous.

I had high hopes for this one.. It is a well blended perfume, soft and round, pretty linear, good staying power, really a spice market more than a amber veil My only big problem with this one is that there is too much CUMIN in it all the way through! I dont'like that, so for me a NO...