L'Eau D'Ambre Extrême

Well, well, well...if this isn't a pretty, tasty amber! It needed to really warm up on me in order to begin producing a notable scent bubble, I was unimpressed initially. Then again, I'm using a dabber, so maybe it needed a few extra minutes. Immediately when it really began unfolding, I could understand what people are talking about when they say it's for mature people. This is a rich, syrupy (can amber be described as 'syrupy'? It is to me, and it's the best I can describe this.) amber with an allspice and clove spiciness. It's interesting, but I wouldn't call it challenging necessarily. However, it has a certain element of vintage ambers that I've smelled on Boomers or even elder generations. I don't mean this disrespectfully, to the contrary, I believe the younger of us have somewhat lost our way and these sorts of fragrances are good for us. But no...this is not at all modern in my opinion. It begins to feel more resinous in the middle stage, and I nearly get myrrh. It's like, on the cusp of a myrrh scent...hard to explain . The vanilla is present throughout, and is deliciously naturalistic. Overall, I'd remark that this is really sweet, but not in a gourmand way, it just sings sweetly from all of it's elements. It fades rather quickly on skin, and it's doing far better on my shirt than it is around my neck. The performance is a bit lacking, and for the price it aggravates me a bit. However, I do love the fragrance. It would be perfect on a bleak winter day.

I'm an Amber, vanilla and spice ADDICT. Only spices I can't really get down with: saffron, pepper (black, pink, pimento, sweet...which is hard because of the large # of frags that contain pink and black pepper n because of that, I have to work around the issue n the pepper needs to be blended in so well that I can't really smell it). Anyway...I've been on a quest lately to find the perfect Amber and I've blind bought many Ambers recently n I must say, I was beginning to wonder if all Amber frags smell exactly the same. That's not necessarily a bad thing though, as I love the note n all the frags I've bought on my quest, I adore them (Ambre 114, Ambre Passion, Yves Rocher Voile d'Ambre, Molinard Amber , Grain du Soleil, Bijou Romantique n a few others). I just received Artisan Ambre Extreme n I think I've finally found an Amber that has a little more to it! This is very spicy, almost has a menthol twinge to it. The longevity is not good though n neither is the sillage. But the smell is really pretty n I really like it!!

L'Artisan L'Eau D'Ambre Extreme, I love it for scenting my bedroom and sometimes livingroom. I don't have the perfume for wearing it myself, I have the amberball you see on the right picture (above, right under). This ball is filled with the perfume. It is supposed to last around two years. I have it for 6 months now. It is not that my rooms are filled with an unchanging cloud of amberscent fulltime, it's like different types of amberwaves pass through the room, small quiet waves, then comes a stronger wave, then the ambersea is almost still and so it goes on. Never a tsunami of amber. Wonderful to sniff at and hold it to my nose if I need a direct ambershot. Very, very pleasant if you're an amberlover. The container is beautifully handcrafted. The amberball is at its best in summer and fall, that is my experience until now. I gave one to my mother for her birthday, and she loves it. Even my father likes the waves of amber hitting his nose before he goes to sleep or when he wakes up.

@Hoxx No way can you have been testing this perfume! Maybe Artisan L'eau d'Ambre? This has heavy room-filling sillage on first spraying - I can actually smell it downstairs at the BACK of the house now, having sprayed twice on the dress I am wearing to work tomorrow in my bedroom upstairs at the FRONT of my house (I normally do this to my clothes in the evening). I don't live in a mansion, but it's not a tiny cottage. Longevity is at least 8 hours on skin and survives a shower; I am not sure about clothing, but it's going to be days, I think. I also sprayed this on one wrist yesterday evening and Ambraliquiquida L'Erbolario on the other; they are both warm, spicy, powdery ambers with similar sillage. LOVE them both (the AL'E is sweeter and sharper, I think).

[DEC. 2020] l'artisan parfumeur "l'eau d'ambre extreme": L'Eau Ambre Extreme smells of delicious savoury spices mixed with full-bodied sweet-incense Arabian amber and salty woods... almost biscuit like, mostly old-world smoked drawing rooms and palace tables, but light on smoke heaving on salty amber. Thankfully because this is done by the same perfumer as Hermes (Jean Claude-Ellena. Rose Eglantine, Cuir d' Ange) it has a perfect balance of light delicateness which you might otherwise be suffocated by these heavy notes (which is why, due to this balanced lightness out of buying any other amber perfumes I bought Extreme instead. Not the most Extreme, but potent enough it makes other perfumes of its price range run for their money!)