Blue Amber Montale for women and men

I love it: great amber/vanilla combo, crazy longevity and good sillage.

I have to disagree with Melyhelly and her Montale pricetag comment: ordering directly from them you get 50ml of Blue Amber for 55€. If you buy 100ml or 2x50ml you get free shipping worldwide and 20ml free of any Montale of your choice.

That's quite a deal compared to most niche houses :S

4.75/5 for Blue Amber, which could possibly become the perfum i'd choose if i could only have one.

I really like Blue Amber!
I had a sample that I'm using now in colder weather and it gives relief to my soul!
It doesn't smell too complicated, rather a good amber scent, quite close to the skin and with a medium level of complexity.
This smells the way I would have liked Shalimar to smell on me!
It's long lasting, elegant, sweet but not cookie/foody and it gives an aura of soft, mysterious yet approachable elegance to the wearer!
It makes people come closer.
I cannot say if it deserves the crazy Montale's pricetag. It much dependns on your own possibilities.
I can say it's worthy a FB if you are looking for amber fragrance.

Every once in a while you hear about how great a niche house is, from other parfumistas. When I read up on some of the scents they make, that interested me, they all seemed to have rather common "notes". After receiving a few samples and a couple spray decants from other members, I can honestly say this is one company that lives up to the "hype"!

Blue Amber is, perhaps, one of the best "amber" scents I have EVER smelled...if not THE BEST. Usually fragrances that have their notes listed linearly are not really all that intruiging or exciting. THIS, on the other hand, is one of those "to die for" scents. Rich, sweet (but not saccharine or gourmand) and exotic are the first words that come to mind upon applying it; and it just keeps getting better. Amber "comes" in many colors (gold, grey, black...) in perfumery. I was skeptical about another "blue" anything...but, lo! and behold this borders on the divine.

A regal couple: slightly dry and crumbly amber resin and sensual dark vanilla, spiced with dry geranium and corriander, recline on a bed of smoky vetiver, as patchouli dances suggestively and erotically around them. Bergamot (for once) does not "open" the show but adds a subtle brightly bitter aspect to the entire construct without being another "citrusy" scent. This amber IS blue; like the deep dark blue color the sky turns just before the sun sinks slowly beneath the horizon, somewhere between the fading warm golden and deep orange tones of evening and the velvet black of night. I used to think the MORE notes a perfume had (or the more unique and unusual they were) the better it was; this company has made me see it is not WHAT notes are in it, so much as how wonderfully they are blended and the quality and concentration of them. This fragrance makes me think of the tales spun by Scherazade in the Arabian Nights, complete with bazaars, genies, flying carpets, magic lamps and lost cities filled with treasure. And just like the stories she told to the Sultan (in an attempt to delay her own death) it goes on and on and on...pulling you in; surrounding you with beauty, magic and wonder!

Sillage: very good
Longevity: superb
Overall: 4.75/5

Incensey but not too smoky, sweet but nowhere near cloying and dark without being BLACK, NOIR or stygian; BLUE AMBER has captivated me. Somewhere between an incense oil and a perfume this has me, quite frankly, in its spell. When I received this is, I spritzed a tiny bit (less than 1/2 a spray of a decant) on a test strip on a Sunday afternoon...and, on Thursday you could still smell it on that strip, laying on my dresser, while laying in my bed!!

I often wear one scent in the morning and sometimes in mid-afternoon to evening don another one...one application of Blue Amber is all I needed for the entire day, AND I could still smell it the next morning! This House may cost more, and be "niche" but trust me, my friends, it is worth every penny that you paid-and then some.

This is a beautiful fragrance the longevity is amazing and the citris vanilla tones are to die for and te dry down is heaven!

i am a big fan of amber fragrances, most of them, they are blooming and glowing on my skin. not this one.
there is something that repels me about this one.
It has a dirt-like smell. or unwashed body odour. something salty. this is wash -off

After few wearings, I found this remarquable!

It is a bit like Bois d'Arménie de Guerlain without the incence. Bit more salty than Bois d'Arménie.

This have a decent longevity on my skin and yes, it is creamy amber well rounded by other notes. Bit flowery too, I LOVE IT!


9/10

Blue Amber is my favorite amber fragrance. It is precisely that salty note which I crave because it offsets the extreme sweetness of the vanilla. Whenever I smell it, I think back to the old Chanel No. 5, wrapping itself around my skin like warm plastic. This is not a gourmand vanilla, like cookies. For that, I like L'Artisan Amber Extreme, which also has a bit of a salty, almondy note. In fact, even the amazing Ambre Sultan has a heavy dose of oregano and pungent spices. Order direct from Montale, Paris, and you get a free 20 ml travel bottle of any of their fragrances, a fabulous deal.

Another big disappointment from Montale. After reading some great reviews describing this scent as warm and creamy, I decided to sample. This amber scent is NOT warm, it is NOT soft, and it is definitely NOT creamy. It is very cold, indeed. In addition, this niche fragrance has some mineral note, which is so annoying, and so unpleasant. I agree, this is a huge mess.

Well, I am disapointed a lot!
After dozens of great reviews I expected a softier and a more versatile amber. Too much pachouli and IMO it smell too close like Patchouli Leaves but with amber. On my skin this stuff is nearly nauseated.

Je n'aimes pas du tout. Dommage car cette eau de parfum semblait destinée à une belle épopée avec moi. Trop de patchouli et une senteur en arrière plan de chocolat que je n'aime pas.

Reminds me a slightly better Chocolate Greedy and a WAY lower quality than Patchouli Leaves.

I am disapointed!

edit: Maintenant j'aime bien. Je découvre le côté floral de cette composition!


9/10

Let's see if I have to change the review later - this is the first time I'm wearing Blue Amber.

I ordered an amber scent sampler and only three of the fragrances really got my attention when I first sampled them to the paper: Chanel Coromandel, L'Artisan L'Eau d'Ambre and this. It was easy to say even based on the first tests that this one is really potent.

On my skin the beginning is quite smoky and the amber is distinct from the beginning. The smokiness does not disappear entirely, but fades considerably and the relatively straightforward vanilla-amber mix just seems to stay and stay. That sounds perhaps bit sweeter than it actually is, warm and powdery with some sweetness would probably be my description.

Funny thing is that I don't see anything too woodsy in the ingredient list, but the only slightly dissatisfying facet on this scent is the faint aroma of pencil shreds I get on the whole lifeline of this fragrance. I would love to know what ingredient that is - it does not mix well with my skin chemistry.

Coriander is a note I usually like a lot, but I have to say that I missed it totally on the first time.

I'm quite inclined to try this on layering.

I am really happy with this amber fragrance. Gentle, powdery, warm, spicy and the staying powder is very strong. Not as suprising and goed als Ambre Sultan, but for me it is a feel good scent

very soft a kida powdery drydownthis scent can go both ways, for man or a women,I just tried a sample on my arm and this is not bad, i would were this to work, I would think that folks around me would like the way I smell, so id say buy this one ist preaty good.

Are there any other notes than amber and vanilla? These two are the only ones I can detect. To me it seems like Blue Amber is Ambre Sultan without the smoky spices. Staying power is good and sillage is strong, but the scent is BORING!

I'm LOVING this fragrance, because to my absolute delight this is very similar to Bois D'Armenie by Guerlain. I checked and the only two notes these have in common is Coriander and Patchouli. Nevertheless the drydown is the same, as is the longevity. Both have the wonderful vanilla note thing going on, which just lasts and lasts. Two snaps and a circle for this fragrance :-)

The Montale fragrances are extremely expensive for very little payback. This is a mess of a fragrance and while a man _might_ be able to wear this on a cold night, I do not recommend it for a lady for any season or time of day. It is a hardcore oriental with bergamot and patchouli dominating throughout the scent. I get nothing oriental from it's dry down. Maybe they consider it oriental because of the amber? My nose gets very little amber out of this. Wear it at your own risk.

I like it very much, so mineral and so tender spicy, with a very beautiful note of geranium. Mysterious and dreaming.