Ambra di Venezia

In Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, on the last days of summer, about an hour before sunset, there is a thick hot haze in the air, mixed with the sand kicked up by hundreds of people walking or relaxing on the big boardwalk. If you look up, you can see the big ferris wheel turning ever so slowly.... The shimmering heat and the haze hanging in the orange and pink-tinted sky makes the ferris wheel seem like it's turning slower than it is, and you feel like time has stopped in a perfect, hot, languid moment of being in the middle of a big wonderful civilization and perfect happiness. That's what this perfume reminds me of. :-) Yes, it is very sweet, and it's probably not a "sex-bomb" kind of fragrance, but it is just pure joy to me. (I don't get what it has to do with Venice though! haha)

I didn't know I liked florals until I came across this in my mother's closet. It's probably 25 years old and still gave an 8 hour performance. It's so unique- not sharp like Pure Poison- it's less serious. Yes, it's an optimistic fragrance. Perhaps the Sandalwood and lime give it an amber like quality. I don't know but it's excellent. I'm very happy it's half full, because this will easily be my Spring go-to.

I absolutely love this perfume. If I could describe it in one word it would be Joyous!

I found it!!!! :-) :-) :-) Just heaven... LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it!!!!!

I just loooove the smell ... but don ́t know where to get it :-(

Ambra di Venzia= magnifique bouquet des fleurs fruités !

Crisp, heady floral. Pretty, but thick & slightly cloying. Smells like an older woman w/ too-long manicured nails.

The name could be misleading, there is no amber in this perfume. Ambra di Venezia is a crisp, bright white floral. When I first tried it on, I thought that I had smelled this vein of jasmine before, and I have. It's a pure clean jasmine, present in a number of more common fragrances. But what this perfume has that others don't is other notes to bolster that crispness to the next level. The lime in here is an incredible accent that is really noticeable when you apply more of the fragrance. It's zesty like a fun fruity drink or a fizzy sour candy. I love fragrances with a fizzy sweet citrus (like Miss Dior.) Jasmine is mixed with a transparent narcissus that I have a hard time finding but is all the time bringing the white petals of this perfume in stark relief with the background noise of everyday smells. This is not creamy white, this is sharp, white, and bright with all the ferocity of a sunny spring day. Never astringent, though. My husband says this would be good for winter, as he says this is "crisp" not "fresh." I see what he means. It's not your typical summer freshie, and I think it would be great year round. If you love lime, you've got to try this - it's not in enough perfumes (done well) and this is a real treat.

“Ambra di Venezia” comes from a tiny one-man house that produces this single scent, with an exclusive edition of hand-blown glass bottles that the owner Montgomery Taylor blows himself. Chandler Burr says AdV was inspired by “an orange sunset in a purple Venetian sky,” resulting in “a rich sweetness, creamy velvet like a glass of Sicilian passito.” He, and several other perfume reviewers, like this a lot. I think AdV smells like mangoey-orange goop on top, the creamy fake vanilla-coconut construction of Cool-Whip in the bottom, and a bright, fresh zig-zag of Irish Spring down the middle (from my notes: the next Axe scent. DON’T BOTHER.) I, for one, don’t like to smell soap in my semifreddo. Great bottles, though.