Narciso Eau de Parfum Ambrée

Just blind bought a 3 oz bottle on eBay. First Narciso. I’m looking for an elegant, chic, creamy, powdery, musk, shampoo, sexy, salon, lightly sweet signature for daytime this fall. I want to smell like I came from the salon on vacation & stepped up to a luxury makeup counter. & I love Frangipani & tropical yellow florals lately ... My initial feeling anyway was that it’s very mature, more so than was expecting. I’m 35. I think it’s the powdery musk which reminds me for some reason of my grandma who died when I was a child. I think something, perhaps the musk is giving it a bit of a “smoky” undertone with my chemistry. She was a smoker. She had class & style & loved perfume though. Anyway, it’s taking some getting used to. & I like smoky, incense notes, but what’s different about this musk is, it’s more animalic rather than fresh ... Her perfumes were very animalic, musky ... & this is quite “perfume-y” also, but I suppose not in a bad way. I love how it’s got a creamy lotion, sunscreen, moisturizer feel to it. I find that to be high end like Chanel, approx same maturity as Chanel Eau Premiere which I also wear & like. This isn’t soapy or fresh however, creamy & powdery. I’m wearing it now after a shower. I’m liking it more. I’m thinking of making it my signature, wearing it daily for a while. I think my nose is going blind to it, but it’s got moderate to strong sillage. It’s stronger than Prada La Femme but more floral. I’m liking this more than that one which is more conservative & business-like. This makes me feel more pretty & glamourous overall, I think. I like that I can smell light wafts of it right now holding my phone. I think it’s pretty sexy. I also like SL La Dompteuse Encagée, which is very strong floral with more Jasmine & Frangipani but not so suitable for me during the every day. So this more in line with what I was wanting. That’s all for now. Will update if anything new while wearing for a while ...

Narciso Ambrée edp is the golden and happy dawn of Narciso Rodriguez. A fragrance that opens spectacularly floral, even the first time I noticed a slight smell of mosquito killer spray, but nothing important if you are a person who likes fragrances with a white floral body. The following times its smell is not as powerful, the nose gets used to this smell, for this reason I recommend trying this perfume more than once. And although I admit that Ambrée is sweetening minute by minute, I do consider this perfume suitable for summer (and my summers are oppressive and hot), but it is also obvious to say that in a heat wave it could be more risky. I feel in this Narciso youth and modernity, always mixed with good style and elegance. I love to feel a solar perfume that I like to use for formal occasions, summer events where I put on my best dress and let my hair down with my best curls. It has musk, of course, but frangipani and ylang dress it up so feminine, a golden and summery image is completed with amber, a golden, deep, magnetic, even mysterious amber... a golden amber that radiates from the Sun. It's wonderful, definitely exotic, beautiful, very solid and with an elegant and unalterable bearing character, like a Mayan pyramid in which the sun touches at sunset... If you still think that it is too much, there is the option of the Ambrée Neroli, much fresher, less sweet but blood brother.

This is the first Narciso Rodriguez perfume I have owned and smelled. I ended up with it because I’m obsessed with powdery perfumes and I wanted to try Narciso Poudree. So I ordered a gift set with body lotion in an online sale. I only wanted the Poudree version.. well, I open the package and the shop has made an error and sent the Ambree! So I contacted them and they said I could try it and if I liked it, keep it and have a 50% refund. So, I cracked it open (I was wary of keeping it because I was worried I wouldn’t like the frangipani and it would be sickly). I was pleasantly surprised! I liked it. It smells tropical and summery to me, probably ideal for a summer scent for me, like sun cream but more luxurious. I live in the uk where it rarely gets insanely hot. The next association I got, harked me back to summer in the 90s, and my mum. The reason for this, I realised, was because it reminds me of Dior Dune, one of my mum’s signature scents back then and one I used to borrow on occasion. Surprised no one else has said this. I haven’t smelled the modern version of Dune, or any version since then so my memory could be hazy, but it definitely struck that chord! It’s the musk and most of all, the Amber. So, it’s really nice and I’ll be keeping it. Maybe it was meant to be, but now I still have to get the Poudree 😩.

I do not know what is it- but it smells like endless childhood summers, not in a childish way, but embodies the late 90, early 2000s era of music and style. I was a pre puberty little girl back then but with a very strong sense for the beauty, style, femininity and I just could not wait to grow up and be girly ! This smells like those times, when your big cousin sister visits you from her big capital city, and she has all the fancy dresses and sandals, and you just can't take your eyes off all of it, and she puts a perfume and goes out in the night. And she is young but big enough to go and have fun. And you wonder, once day , when you grow up, will you be as beautiful as her, and smell good like her, and have boys chasing you with flowers as they chase her... Memories :D p.s. someone here wrote it is classy- HELLO, every Narciso perfume SCREAMS STYLE, CLASS AND MONEY. You gotta love yourself a good Narciso. It is wonderful, but comparing to the white and rose cube, it does not last enough, or at all for that matter. That is sad. But if you can afford to buy it and wash in it without regretting all the money, then it is worth it. Because the opening MY GOD. Tropical, nostalgic, summer, youthful, joyful, fun!!!

I just tried this today and believe me I am fascinated in every way possible by this fragrance. First it is a very very hot day here in my country, I was out shopping and I sprayed my self with Narciso Ambre in the perfume shop. Let me tell you, this is a summer jem. If I happen to create a summer vacation fragrance, this would be it. Fascinating sileage, the ylang ylang is the scent I get the most but elevated from all the sweetnes and deepnes from the other notes. Sexy vibes as summer should give away, tropical all the way, potent even trough all the sweat trough the 4h shopping spree. And that's not where my amazement from this fragrance ends. When I got home after 4h shopping on the hot sun I had to take a shower, and even after showering this fragrance is as good and as noticable and potent just as when I sprayed it. Yes it's on the pricey side for my country's standards, but it's so worth it because two sprays take you a long way. So I guess I found my new summer signature fragrance and vacation scent suitable for summer days and nights. p.s. A day and two showers later I still get a light hint of this scent on mu skin that now in the late dry down reminds me a lot of Roberto Cavalli EDP.