Ambre

This doesn't really smell like amber based fragrance, furthermore amber is not listed among notes either, so this was a surprise to say the least. Not only I was used to amber note/fragrance being powerful/overwhelming, but also expected something more daring from very talented nose like MdO. Ambre opens with funky top notes - sharp cedar note and ylang - but in few minutes the funkiness fades away and appears something so beautiful, fragile, creamy scent of tolu, benzoin and vanilla, perfectly blended MdO style, instantly made me think of that warm, cozy, restful feeling/smell on the sun-soaked skin after the day spent on the beach. Gentle, smooth and unobtrusive oriental, linear with medium to low projection and lasting power, in a way reminds me of more polished version of MPeG Or des Indes - pleasurable, graceful, polite but considering the price, probably not full bottle-worthy. Drydown reveals a skinscent somewhat lacking in complexity/basenotes, so either re-apply or longingly recall the middle as the best part of this composition. Edit (2022., rectangular flacon): Several years later, we meet again. How I judged you wrong, dear Ambre! Only now I can appreciate your abstract yet delicate character, so soothing. Masterpiece.

Another approach to amber! More than "simple" ambergrìs: all is added here come to work perfectly! The ingredients, the ingredients, the ingredients.... Always and only the best ones: so great that some times it is impossible for us even to recognize and appreciate them as they deserve. I agree with all your reviews ; ) Long lasting either on the skin or on the paper also. And again I keep on asking to myself why M.lle Mona di Orio's creations have somewhere (outside Europe) been so badly, unwisely and arrogantly ill treated when not openly boycotted!?! Probably noses also can suffer from jet lag.....perhaps.

sontuoso, ricco, caldissimo, questo accordo di ambra parte con note super evanescenti fiorite di ylang ylang. L'assestamento è rapido, meravigliosamente avvolgente e adatto a climi freddi. Le note che si rintracciano sono ovviamente l'ambra, ma anche ambra grigia, qualcosa di affumicato (forse il legno di cedro), insieme a benzoino e tonka (o forse cera d'api?). tra le mie ambre preferite, manca delle note erbacee di ambre sultan, ma rimane una fragranza di altissimo livello. eccellente!

Ambre is....... a soft dark and light stripes brown fur cover in a dark starry room ... to me it's like the bedroom smell of "Amélie" movie (2001) with that fur cover instead of hers. Sometimes is quite sharp because of the balsamic note and i feel there are allot of saffrons to it.

Effortless but also daringly confident. Ambre doesn’t have unusual notes or a complicated structure; it’s the kind of amber scent you would imagine an intelligent woman wearing. It’s present, soft, powdery, slightly gourmand and comforting. Lovely.