Ambre a Sade Nez a Nez for women and men

"We are caught in 'fragrant delight'?" How about "We succumb to a diabetic coma?"

Honestly, I would never, ever have guessed that a perfume named AMBRE A SADE could be a confectionary fragrance. And yet this Nez à Nez composition really is much closer to a loukhoum than to a leather perfume. I actually donned this creation tonight in the hopes of finding something along the lines of Parfum d'Empire AMBRE RUSSE, only a bit less hard hitting.

Well, AMBRE A SADE is definitely less Russian--there is no dark black tea note--but it's also conspicuously devoid of leather, at least to my nose. Instead, the fruity opening cedes very swiftly to a loukhoum-like candy drydown. It is less sweet than the Keiko Mecheri trio or Montale SWEET ORIENTAL DREAM or Serge Lutens LOUVE, but the nougaty aspect is hard to deny.

I'm sure that anyone who bought this blind for the name was very, very disappointed. It should have been named MARSHMALLOW PEEPS.

Wow it opens all strawberries, big time! Vanilla comes into play shortly after but the strawberries are still so prominent. It smells sort of like the hair of those strawberry shortcake dolls we had when we were kids (I think I'm dating myself). I like it, I like sweet scents, but I don't get enough of the other interesting notes to make me want to purchase.

Sweeties, sweeties and more sweeties!!! MMMmmmmmmm - this had me reaching for a pack of love hearts! The only one I read was 'I surrender' and I did! Strawberries, raspberries, caramel .... what a concoction! Oh God make heaven smell like this for me pleaseeeeee???

Very little difference on the dry down for me - just sweet and more vanillary! I don't seem to get any amber, patchouli or cedar at all - nose from wrist delicious and nose to wrist sublime!!

It doesn't smell chemical sweetie to me at all. However, a good question is where to wear (or even what to wear with0? So far I've only had this on in the house or popped up the shops - I can imagine it being quite cloying in a restaurant and at work it may give others a headache! Has a great longevity so only a little is needed! Thats a good thing with the price! Silage will scent your home out with one dab !!!!

One for the gourmand sweetie lovers methinks!!!

This is the first Nez a Nez perfume I've sampled and I thought that it was going to smell of High quality ingredients... but what did I get? CHERRY & VANILLA BUBBLE GUM!! ....I swear!! It actually smells cheap at first, but the dry down is a little better, not so in your face childish, the amber and vanilla warm up and take over... It's along the same line as pink sugar, so I cannot believe a man would wear this one.

This is fragrance I have big difficulty to classify to any group. For sure it is sweet, kind of gourmand. For sure it is deep and sensual. My first impression was - another girly cloying mass market but I was wrong. More I’m using it than I have more impression that it is unique and very sexy. Now I can say it is fragrance for both genders that can be easily wear in any season but mostly during summer and spring because it is very bright and happy however it is warm. Amber is mostly ingredient of winter kind of fragrances but here is very well balanced with fruits, mostly wild strawberries and raspberries which are very prominent and natural. Sweetness is generated mostly by Tonka not by Vanilla which perfectly plays with cinnamon and earthy patchouli. It is at least worth to try but it can be HG for sweeter fragrance lovers.

Do you think this is good alternative for Miss dior cherie 2005 versionversin? I'm very disappointed new one just came out this year.....

I am pleasantly surprised.

I am surprised that i am pleasantly surprised.

Most of the times my expectations turn out to be too high compared to the experience i get with any fragrance but this time it is just the other way round.

I wanted to sample this amber fragrance as amber is something i utterly love. The reviews were a little offputting but amber is amber so i wanted to give it a go.

it might be my angelic soul but i do smell and feel the perversion... this is dark and strong. Just not in the usual overpatchoulied,civeted, masculinised way.

all the notes are there. Would expect a fruity or a gourmand. Sure. But this is not the usual teenager beebop. This one just pretends to be sweet and innocent but it has got a cold leather heart...

This combination is very seductive. i cannot resist.

The name is lying indeed. This fragrance has nothing to do with pain. It is pure pleasure. Touches me in a way not many fragrances can.

And this one is only that much twisted to give the maximum excitement. Top notch. My next bottle.

Update: longevity is just a few hours on my skin & it gets really quiet after the first hour... after 2-3 hours i can hardly sniff it even with up close to my skin :(

I'm beginning to understand this company's thought process: they're like a 50-year old dentist buying a Harley and leather jacket then driving it around at about 20 mph. He's still a dentist but he can pretend he's a bad MFer when he snaps up his leather collar before riding the hog to Home Depot to pick up some weed n feed. If he ever does open it up on the freeway he'll end up running it into the ditch because he doesn't really know how to be wild. This is how you sell a mild berry scent with a name that refers to sexual fetishism and get people to give you $150+ for a bottle.

(Before I comment on the juice I suggest you reread the description above and notice how little of it actually refers to the perfume or helps you understand what it is. There's method to this madness. While the fog of that description is swirling in your head you may not notice how vague the description is but may fall for the lifestyle promise.) In any case this is a well-done berry scent with defined strawberry and blackberry. There is an implication of vanilla or caramel but it requires some educated sniffing to find it. That's it. That's all. Life on edge obviously. I am very close to organizing a boycott of this company and the fraud I believe they perpetrate on perfume lovers. I'm only holding back because I fear I'll find myself in their headquarters some day with a bag of rocks and a slingshot screaming "Purple haze this!" "Eat cold coffee in an atelier!" "Up your dancing frescoes!"; and they're definitely not worth going to jail for.
Sillage: 2-3 feet
Durability: 4-5 hours
Fabulosity: Strawberry Shortcake (the doll)
Price to value ratio: nonexistent
-3/10 (Yes, that's a negative number)

I tested today Ambre a Sade,with the thought that it would be something really dark and divine.Well I was totally wrong this is at the sweet side,a berry ambery perfume that you can call sweetheart when you first smell it.Who would give such a name with notes of berries and caramel?;Don't be fooled by the name there's no perversion in it.

Opens with beautiful fruity top notes that manage to remain steadily present all the way down to the dry down (perhaps it just worked well with my skin chemistry.) You can smell the patchouli even in the opening, but never too heavy handedly. Smooth and creamy dry down while sustaining the raspberry and black currant notes. This is perhaps one of the smoothest silage I’ve ever witnessed. NEVER gets too heavy or loses its integrity… It is a fruity woody fragrance and it consistently stays that way. A true French perfume. Excellent staying power. It is a bit expensive ($165 for a bottle on LuckyScent.com), however, since you don’t need to use too much of it, it would last you quite a while. They also have a $3 tester on the same website. My recommendation for usage: Winter time or cool summer nights only.

Soo magic in my skin,today a buy it.Sweet and caramel amber unify smell.

sweet and deep fragance,yesterday i can feel it and fall in love,magical

This is soooo strange. Up close it smells really awful, mean and nasty... Like something that can not stand a closer look. But from a distant, a light spray on the wrist or on my husband it become really delicious. Sweet, light, warm and also unique. It make me smile and feel comfy... as long as I remember not to put my nose against my wrist! Even tough I feel tempted to do so all the time.

Maybe it´s a matter of skin chemistry? It would be amazing to smell it on somebody that it´s really suit.

Longlasting, huge sillage and a fun and flirty take on amber. (As long as you don´t come close of course).

Try with caution, I guess the smell could be nauseting on some...