Les Indemodables Ambre Supreme was recent, mild, and like a veil of brined jasmine with a brighter, spiced opening, sweeter, orange blossom coronary heart, and smoky, earthy base. It was a pores and skin scent virtually from the start and had a salty, cool really feel all through.
- prime notes: aldehydes, clary sage, cardamom, pink pepper
- coronary heart notes: neroli, Moroccan jasmine, patchouli
- base notes: immortelle, ambergris
The opening was filled with aldehydes and fresh-blooming jasmine in spring’s early mild with a peppery tickle on the finish of an inhale. There was a saltiness of the ambergris mixed with the aldehydes made it appear aquatic. Comfortable neroli subtle by means of the jasmine, mixing the 2 collectively and including a contact of sweetness.
quarter-hour into the event, Ambre Supreme turns darker with an earthy, herbaceous inexperienced twist with the jasmine dominating the neroli. There remained a saltiness all through the subsequent two hours, but it surely was primarily jasmine with patchouli beneath and a smoky, barely-there honey depth from the immortelle.
The scent appeared particularly ethereal, virtually like a gossamer veil of brine and jasmine with a bit of soiled patchouli whispering within the background. It weakened considerably after 4 hours of damage, and the drydown was barely smoky, earthy, and salty–all fairly refined given how arduous it was to detect the scent at that time.
Utility
For testing, I used three sprays (they appeared… unusually minimal) of a 3ml pattern vial utilized to the underside and topside of my wrist space on my left arm. I used an unscented moisturizer previous to making use of the scent as that is additionally my swatching arm (aka, extremely parched at any given second) as I discovered scent didn’t maintain properly right here in any other case.
Longevity
It lasted for 3 hours till it was a skin-scent and about eight hours earlier than it was fairly tough to detect on my pores and skin. The sillage and projection had been mild to start with and weakened shortly after making use of.
Private Ideas
Ambergris is often replicated by synthetics in perfumery today, as it’s an extremely uncommon and costly ingredient to acquire in its pure type, however this perfume says it has a ten% dosage of “specifically sourced and tinctured utilizing [their] proprietary ultrasound extraction.” This was really what satisfied me to strive a pattern of it!
I anticipated larger shifts within the journey, and I positively didn’t anticipate the jasmine coming by means of as strongly because it did. I’m nonetheless working my manner into white florals, so this one will not be on my record to purchase simply given how sturdy the jasmine was!
Obtainable Sizes
- 100ml for $275
- 18ml for $93 (tougher to seek out dimension within the US)
- 0.7ml pattern for $6