Hey there Northern Hemisphere Posse Peeps. You guys are in the thick of fall. We call it autumn and I thought Autumn Ambers a better opening gambit. Here are three of my all time favourite amber fragrances. Hopefully in the comments you’ll leave your faves and whether you’ve tried mine, or if they talk to you in notes and feeling.

PDI

Autumn Ambers for Fall 2017

Fragrantica

Ambre Céruléen by Huitième Art

Fragrantica gives these featured accords:
Sandalwood, opoponax, tonka bean, lemon verbena, powdery notes

Pierre Guillaume makes interesting perfumes, he has a particular flair for sweet and manages to make sweet comfortable. It’s never cloying or overdosed and often has some quirky note that gives the sweetness a base to hold onto or a foil to alleviate it. In this Autumn Amber he uses lemon verbena, a minty lemon grassy scent, to keep Ambre Ceruleen interesting and stops the glugginess. One of my favourite fragrances he has created I’m onto my second bottle.

Fragrantica

Queen of Hearts by Queen Latifah

Fragrantica gives these featured accords:
Top: Bergamot, green notes, cinnamon, plum
Heart: Egyptian jasmine, red fruits, white flowers
Base: Amber, musk, patchouli, vanilla, olibanum, incense

Still available for next to nothing on the discounters but becoming harder to find lately. Queen Latifah seems to have had a hand in the process of her celebuscents because both of them are good. Queen of Hearts is a particularly good Autumn Amber because the amber and resins are presented with spicy citrus, white flowers and plenty of air. Not a sheer fragrance exactly but it does seem to be spacious and casual, rather than the ultra hefty winter weight ambers.

Fragrantica

Ambre Russe by Parfum d`Empire

Parfumo gives these featured accords:
Top: Champagne, Vodka
Heart: Ambergris, Coriander, Cumin, Tea, Cinnamon
Base: Leather, Vanilla, Frankincense

OK, this one is on the heavier and more treacle thick side but its booziness and tea lift it far above most of the available ambers into a realm its own. What Ambre Russe most reminds me of is pipe tobacco that my grandmas second husband Jim used to smoke. There was something alcoholic and resinous about it, and he would smell of it right through his clothes and hair. Not for the faint hearted this Autumn Amber is for perfumistas who are ready to rock.

You might like to look back at Perfume Posse Ambre Mythique by Maitre Parfumeur et Gantier and Ambre Sauvage by Annick Goutal

So what’s your autumn Amber?
Portia xx

Portia also writes for Australian Perfume Junkies