Ambrette 9 Le Labo for women and men

I enjoyed this at first, it was light and beautiful, airy and subtle, and it seemed to hit the target at what Le Labo was getting at: mother/child intimacy. However, the dry-down, after a number of hours, was all powder and nothing of the amber was left. I was left feeling that I smelled rather old ladyish. Disappointing on me at least.

Smells just like the apple cordial we have in our kitchen cupboard! It has that slightly watery, sweet, sorbet-type thing going on. It makes me think of summer dresses and ice cream vans! :-)

Although it's light it last several hours on my skin, which pleasantly surprised me. Very inoffensive, definitely subtle, maybe a little too "safe", if you know what I mean. My personal opinion is that it doesn't really feel like perfume. It's one of those scents that's quite pleasant but I wouldn't pay money for it.

It's quite pretty and if I smelt it on someone else it would strike me as a very young scent. Borders on bubblegum to my nose. If you don't like sweet scents it might be best to test this before buying!

This is very intimate. So subtle, and yet leaves a thin cloud of comfort around you.
I mostly get the ambrette and slight musk, and not much pear. It is extremely light, so it's perfect for those days when I don't want too much fragrance.
This is versatile-I can wear this all year round, during the day or before I go to bed at night, and it's such a soothing scent.
It's clean, it's gentle, and my 3 year old loves it on me. He buries himself in my arms when he smells this, telling me 'you smell so good!' ^^

Fruity musk. Ambrette 9 is a thin and synthetic concoction of slightly acidic, sort of fresh, fruit and musks. The fragrance is so subtle that initially I couldn't detect anything but a light (non-sweet) fruityness but as it started to react with the skin, synthetic musks made their presence clearer turning Ambrette 9 into a transparent, inoffensive but overall pleasant "clean-fragrance" Nice but unremarkable.

Lovers of the "Jardins" serie by Hermes should dig this.

Rating: 6/10

ambretta?fruit!!intense fruit not so sweet like could be a fruity frag
I smell apple juice and pear.. it stings a little
not for me
it remember me byredo pulp 'cause they are both an overdose of fruit

Very, very, very subtle, almost imperceptible, musky, pear and baby powder fragrance.

Nice for people who like an incredibly weak scent and are embarrassed to wear perfume in the first place... but I would have thought the high price would be a big deterrent for them.

I would recommend Luten's Daim Blond if you'd like a pear scent you can actually smell.

I love Le Labo because their fragrances are almost always weird smelling, and I love weird. However, Ambrette 9 in this case might be a little too strange for me to comprehend.

It's a very light, intimate fragrance which is what I initially noted. Ambrette is not a note I am familiar with, and now that I have experienced it, I'm not too keen. This fragrance smells musky, but not in a dirty, sexy, animalic way. It's like a white, powdery musk blended with sugar-free marshmallows and pistachios. But it's not a gourmand.

On the skin it's light and fluffy. Some reviewers are saying that it's a scent for a baby. Well I'd prefer my babies to smell natural and to be honest it's quite an expensive fragrance for a one year old. Supposedly it's meant to compliment your own skin scent.

I agree with Henri345que, it does smell like cotton. The actual scent of clothes before they're washed and scented with laundry detergent. Ambrette 9 is such an odd fragrance that I see myself going off on all kinds of tangents trying to describe it.

It doesn't last unfortunately, which is a shame because Le Labo is usually known for their killer sillage and fantastic lasting power. I think my issue with Ambrette 9 is that I find it bland and lacking in character. It's a fragrance which has me confused as to who actually buys it.

I love musk in scents, particularly Kiehl's Original Musk, but this fragrance is under par in that department. I don't think I could possibly express my disappointment in any other way than through this review.

One of the loveliest ambrette fragrances I've tried. It's soft, subtle and slightly musky.