Ambre Russe Parfum d`Empire for women and men

Parfums d'Empire AMBRE RUSSE is a dark and spicy amber perfume with big sillage. This is a potent little number which needs to be sparingly applied in order to be enjoyed. Definitely a winter-time perfume—a bit on the heavy side, in fact.

AMBRE RUSSE numbers among what I refer to as the "sledgehammer" ambers, with the distinction that black tea and leather figure prominently in this composition. There are so many amber perfumes in production and new ones constantly coming out that we can afford to be very, very picky...

A gorgeous middle-age woman is smoking. Velvet curtains. Dressed up and enjoy opera at night - those are images this fragrance brings to me. This one is quite faminine in my opinion, especially when it stays longer on my skin. It is getting sweeter but remains the indipendent, elegant attitude. I like it but maybe I'm too young to wear it now.

I ordered this sample because of the list of great notes. I have one problem with this : all I can really smell in the opening is rich rich amber and musty old basement. Specifically, the musty basement of my Aunt's old brownstone walk-up in Brooklyn back in the 80s. She had a pretty much fossilized 60s looking home bar in her basement that had lots of old rum and vodka bottles, in the same area of the basement was gym equipment that my older cousins would use to work out. So what I have here is a perfume that opens with rich thick balmy amber, rum , musty basement, and colonge-y man sweat. Yeah, kinda gross. Now, with that being said..this changes and dries down to true warm amber awesomeness. I feel that anyone into interesting well-made perfect amber scents will really love and enjoy this perfume especially 20-25 minutes into it and onward...But that opening is really really weird for me! strange random limbic memory to have uncovered via scent. not a fan of the sweat thing ha

If my pipe smoking, boozer Granddad was sexy and sweet, this is what he would have smelled like.
Gorgeous and comforting and wicked.

Ambre Russe is my dirty little secret ; ) Very boozy on the opening (which could throw some people off), it simmers down to a slightly sweet mix of incense, leather, tea and honey. The leather and incense lend a hint of S&M while the honey and tea notes add a nice twist not commonly found in other amber fragrances.
As a strong power perfume with massive sillage, I tend to wear it when I'm on one of my little "I feel so awesome it hurts" ego trips. Yep, this is the upturned nose and downward glance. Positively decadent, the only word to throughly describe this one is "aristocratic". This amber is oh so wrong, but in all the right ways.

I got this sample along with 3 others. The first time I tried all of them at the same time and got confused. Today, I woke up and saw a thin layer of ice on my car. It was about 38F, cold for me but probably a joke to others :).Anyway, it was cold, and I decided to test this perfume ALONE. Oh my goodness, I fell in love with it the first moment I smelt my wrist. It's sooo warm and calming. I could detect the incence right away. Rum? Yes, it's there. I think that's why the woody scent was dry yet smooth, not harrassing my nose at all like other dry scents.
I LOVE IT. LOVE IT. LOVE IT.

Received a sample of this with a swap. I wish I knew who it was from so I could thank them! This is a beauty! Quite a boozy opening, but dries down to a gorgeous amber laced with tea and cinnamon. So rich, so opulent, so, so yummy!!!!

Where I'm from in London there used to be a little tobacconists (before smoking became as bad as a dose of leprosy) with rows and rows of exotic flavoured pipe tobaccos, exquisite carved walnut pipes and little breath mints on the deep mahogany counter. This smells exactly like it. Absolutely gorgeous, and lovely on me and my husband...

I LOVE Amber Russe! This is such a creative combination -- Amber, Leather, Vodka, Champagne? Spices? Add in the coriander, cinnamon and top it all off with incense, and this is simply sparkling, not what you'd expect from an amber at all. It's perhaps the booziest amber I've ever smelled, but it works in the most captivating manner.

Others have made reference to a cloying property to Ambre Russe -- your mileage may vary, but that wasn't my experience at all. This was durable and had great longevity, but was never suffocating in the way other ambers can tend. The leather and lightness of the champagne seem to balance the overall combination. Both elegant, sophisticated, and simply it's just gorgeous. Wearing it seems like a wonderful decadence that one grows to crave.

Astounding! If nothing else, sample it and see.

If you like your amber to be boozy in the opening and smoky/leathery in the drydonw with hints of incense, then you've probably found your holy grail. Warm, powerful, rich but extremely well balanced. Me? I stuck with the more classic Ambre Precieux or the herbal/medicinal Ambre Sultan.

Said that, this is still top quality stuff. Bravo to Marc-Antoine Corticchiato.

Rating: 8/10

This is a very nice amber!! The opening on me is all vodka and rum, it then quickly moves into sweetness, honey, cinnamon and the amber is there throughout. Actually the rum is there throughout also, but less of a sharp alcoholic rum, more of like a dark sweet rum, I imagine this smells like being in havana drinking a cuba libre! YUM...

Warm, boozy and extremely sweet. For me the opening is delicious honey + tobacco + rum combo with just a slight hint of powdery and sweet leather. I wished for more tea note though, but I can't complain about what I'm smelling.
At the heart part for me hits vanilla with cinnamon and this smells just delicious and very, very edible. The sweet/powdery accord is a bit too much/strong for me, but I really enjoy how this smells.
The only downside would be that I have a slight feeling that this might enduce headache for me and I might bored quickly as I find this to be too rich/too much/too sweet. Something just over-added.

This is just what i needed. A cold weather, winter warmer.
Good tobacco by a fireplace, high quality, oakey-vannilic booze, and something vaguely medicinal for a moment. Well worn leather chairs, polished woods, and an old book.
Tea, and wild honey, exotic spices. Its easy to feel a sense of warm, sultry air gently moving, and forget the cold, embrace the warm, silken, amber arua that beckons. This scent wears extremely well on my skin, which suprises me, because i normally do not care for amber. My warm chemistry made sweet love to this gorgeous perfume and an inexplicable, implacable, spine tingling sensuality was the result, and i am hoplessly addicted. This is the kind of fragrance that has the effect of a narcotic haze, as it is too much, and not enough. Ambre russie is an indulgence in the extreme, and sweet to excess. It is sinful, and decadent, hedonistically luxurious. I am afraid to smell this on a man.. It will be my ruin.


I tried layering this over an old application of encens flamboyant=wow. If you like a little exciting masculine, i dare you.


Thank you NLS!

Whoa! Ambre Russe opens on my skin as booze and tobacco. It reeks of fine cigars and even finer brandy served in a sparkling crystal snifter. Smells very expensive and very LOUD! One drop of this scent is almost too much, at least for the first hour or so.

After that, it dries down to a beautiful but fairly typical amber/oriental scent.

This is a heavy scent that would be best for wintertime only, and definitely not one to wear when you'll be sharing a small space with others. I can only imagine that this baby could choke a horse if applied in hot, humid weather.

Very beautiful fragrance overall, with good sillage and persistence. 100% unisex and a must-try for fans of amber scents--it's one of the prettiest I have encountered in quite some time.

My first impressions of this fragrance was a loud smack of leather and rum. Wow.

Ambre Russe is certainly something that stands out from the crowd. Strong, soaked in alcohol and spices, it could have been a fragrance of kings (and some queens) back in the good old times when monarchs actually ruled rather than spent time in nightclubs or on the covers of the Sun.

All the listed notes are there, and they are very strong and powerful. There is amber, coriander, vanilla and honey that together with cinnamon and coriander create this spicy, smoky background to leather and vodka. The whole thing seems very, very thick, if you know what I mean, dark, intoxicating. Probably the first scent since Black Orchid that is so heavy in everything it contains and that I really, really love.

I have been waiting for my bottle from Luckyscent.com.. and it finally arrived..
Yes ... Vodka and Champagne are the effervescent top notes to hit me ..
then there is...
a dark tea that takes over ....
it's the honeyed amber/ incense /leather base that remains
on my skin that I find sooo Enchanting.
This fragrance ...has subtle nuances to delight you...

A top notch Fragrance ...
very Elegant and Sophisticated...
it doesn't scream..
"Smell me .. I'm Rich!"

A person wears it .. not for others to declare how amazingly classy you are ..
but you wear it for yourself..
because you know you are Elegant and Sophisticated .. and yes .. quite possibly RICH.

VERY strong this one. And that says a lot coming from me because I find most scents a bit too subtle. Longevity and Silliage are fantastic, but it is way too strong for me. And all I smell is pure Amber and nothing else. Cant see myself getting into this one

se inicia con una explosion alcoholica de ron y vodka junto a un efecto burbujeante, me imagino que de champagne.Las especias y el humo de cigarros puros hacen el resto.Lo recomiendo a sibaritas y gentes mundanas.

I've tried a few different Ambers. Prescieux and Extreme for example but this ones the best, it's a homecoming party for people of all ages and sexes, tea, incense, booze and a touch of leather all wrapped in a lovely amber blanket. If you can't be happy in this scent you gotta give up on parties.

Mmmm...quite pleasing to my senses.

I get vodka at full force in the beginning, but quickly moves on to the next few notes---which on ME, is incense mixed with a pinch of coriander. After two minutes or so, I sense a dash of cinnamon mixed in. Then, if you're looking for it, you can smell some honeyed tea and a bit of amber. I don't get any Rum or Leather, but towards the end, I finally get a bit of the vanilla...but just a smudge. The dry down is definitely different from the beginning. Very soft, slightly fruity, but with just a hint of incense. Beautiful. This is exactly the way fine-quality perfumed incense should smell like.

It's been a long time since I wrote a review, but I just one to join the club of liking this amber.
Very fruity amber, but at the same time strong and liqury.

amazing stuff. one of the best frags, if not the best. if Ambre Precieux wouldn't exist, this would be without a doubt the best amber out there*.

somehow I can smell plums in the composition. vanilla is not so prominent as one might anticipate.


* I tried dozens of Amber based fragrances

Ambre Russe is an unusual amber fragrance, an homage to Tsarist Russia.

I get an initial blast of vodka and champagne reinforced by cinnamon and honey. This opening is way too boozy and not pleasant at all for my nose and unfortunately it lasts quite a long. (Only if I could smell the opening notes so long at many other fragrances...)

Sweet and dry accords are playing tag, in the first moment the sweet fruity vodka note (or vodka-soaked dried fruits - it gets sweet enough to cloy) dominates and then dry smoky wood and frankincense notes pop up while tea note peeks through the composition. This tea is an overbrewed strong black tea with a generous amount of honey.
Being a disliker of leather note in fragrances, I'm really glad that there is just a hint of leather underneath.
As the fragrance reaches the drydown it is mostly straightforward amber.

While I can appreciate Ambre Russe, this is far from anything I enjoy wearing as perfume.

This is the most wonderful boozy amber I can think of. A real pick-me-up scent for me even if others may find it cloying. Addictive stuff. The whole range of this brand is quite remarkable, actually. Top-quality, long-lasting and classy.

Edible tea and leather with amber. Vodka and cumin dry off quickly, leaving the boozy notes and settling into almost Adventurer’s Club library stuff, with a strong beeswax base with spices in. Apparently based on Tsarist Russia. Works well as that. Really love this one