Ambra Aurea Profumum Roma for women and men

I ordered a handful of PR samples- this among them, and it stands out. Wonderful vanilla (natural!) and Ceylon cinnamon blend beautifully with amber and just a subtle hush of mint. And labdanum, is it? There are Indian agarbathies with a similar composition- but none so delicious as this! I am quite taken... and the sillage is excellent.

There are hundreds of perfumes with ambra. Almost all of them are sweet because balanced with vanilla. Fortunately this one is different… I think that all subtle sweetness that we can recognize is an effect of natural, not distilled amber. This is real amber nothing changed or improved by man. I’m completely in love with this fragrance. Silage is amazing; it is recognizable after 24h on my skin. So I have impression that AA never dies. Of course it is matter of taste whether you like natural and deep amber or not but at least this fragrance is worth to try. I found description of AA on one webpage where author tried to imagine how smells the houses of ancient fighters like Beowulf’s for example. She compares AA to the smell of warm woods, fire and leathery clothes the people have been dressed that time. This is just perfect description.

Mmmmm … labdanum and labdanum and more labdanum! Delicious vanilla and vanilla and more vanilla! Right out of the bottle - Heavenly! It doesn’t get much better than this. It’s like getting inside a gourmet cream puff and wallowing in velvety, rich pudding flavored with real vanilla. I love all ambers, and I love good vanilla, and this one is especially wonderful. The vanilla-amber combination lasted the entire day, both on the skin and in the sillage. This is yet another decant-worthy amber.

Much as I like this scent, I have to say that it’s kind of a cop-out to list only a single note (amber) since amber is composed of so many different things and varies so much from one version to another.

I must admit I had high expectations of this one. And during the first half an hour, it did live up to them. I've been searching for the perfect amber so long, and the dark, dry, dusty and understated amber this pretended to be for a while came surprisingly close. No vanilla, and even better, no sweetness in sight! Just what I wanted.
Then it all went wrong. Not only did the dreaded vanilla show up, it completely took over, the scent got a lot sweeter and by the end of the first hour was nothing more than an average, albeit pretty vanilla scent with a light touch of amber. The price tag, however, suggests so much more.
I tested it together with Sonoma Scent Studio's Ambre Noir - and that one won hands down.