Ambre 114

Toned down ambre sultan by SL, Christmas in a bottle, really well balanced, love the 15ml format

I didn't enjoy this one. To my nose, it feels unbalanced and lacks smoothness. It reminded me of Serge Lutens Ambre Sultan, which I much prefer. Ambre Sultan is far richer, smoother, and better balanced.

Classic, almost old-school amber with a balanced yet amber-dominant composition. Opens with some spice from nutmeg and dries down thick and resinous, which is exactly what you would want from an amber fragrance. This also had great sillage for the first 2-3 hours and lasted over 12 hours on skin. Not a safe blind buy for those who are sensitive to finding benzoin to be medicinal, or to those who don't like classic-leaning perfumes. But for me, it's amazing. Side note: Why do some people find this powdery? I don't at all.

Ambre 114 is a far too powdery perfume with a sweet scent, and it lasts for hours. In the dry down, I can also sense incense, but that only adds to the sweetness. I like sweet perfumes, but for me this one is too much, just too strong and too powdery.

A retro amber in the best possible way. I spray this on my wool coats in winter. It’s divine. I walk down the streets smelling like a grown and classy woman.

Very Geranium forward amber, the spices give it a nice depth but unless you love Geranium, this would be just another Geranium fragrance with a darker/spicier twist. I am also not smelling off a card which is very different on skin, but as I accumulate more Geranium and Carnation fragrances, the more I dislike them so it is my bias. As it dries down i feel like this is a love child of Oriza L. Legrands 'Le Regent' and 'Jardins'. I love the vanilla, Amber, Benzoin, Tonkabean combo which provides a delicious molasses-y base but i do not like the vintage cosmetic notes on top of it.

This is the best amber perfume in my collection followed by Boucheron Alex d’alexandria. I love it so much. Very balsamic and well balanced spices. It is not necessarily gourmand leaning. Nutmeg is prominent and the vetiver is giving the amber, vanilla and tonka bean a dry hay after-feel to stop them from being sweet. I will always have this perfume. Very solid 9.8/10 for me.

Ambre 114 is a vanilla heavy Oriental Amber that opens with an aggressive nutmeg and thyme combo that gives off major grandma vibes. The fragrance breaks down into two phases, a warm spicy open and a nice vanilla amber dry down. Sadly it is the first phase that rubs me the wrong way, and I haven’t been able to look past it or get used to it. So for me, this one’s a bust. If the opening was more to my taste, I’m still not sure I’d recommend this, given that it smells very ‘average’ to me.

این یه عطر امبری فوق‌العاده با یه درای‌داون شاهکاره و ازش ممنونم که باعث شد بفهمم فضای امبر مال من نیست و به شخصیتم نمی‌خوره. خیلی بزرگسالانه و جدی‌تر از چیزیه که من هستم.

Very rich and classy scent , beautiful

Tested it on my partners skin first and couldn’t keep my hands off. Extremely sexy and enchanting.

What a lovely warm, resinous amber. It’s reminiscent of Shalimar, without the burst of citrus and vintage sensibilities. I actually think I like it more too! It’s more wearable and modern. Beautifully suited to the Autumn months with this touch of vanilla that swaddles you in a non-cloying way. Truly a lovely fragrance with a terrific longevity.

Nothing special, just very good, tasty and I want it now! Unfortunately, it has to be applied several times. - Niks bijzonders, gewoon heel goed, lekker en die wil ik nu ! Helaas wel meermaals aanbrengen.

Expanding my HdP collection with a 15ml of this. 1740 is one of my favourite fragrances of all time and this house has excellent quality for a great price at discounters. Having dipped my toe in some significant ambers of the past few years I think Ambre 114 is one of a few I'd suggest to someone as a "reference amber". This is a high quality amber without many embellishments. Benzoin, vanilla, woods, patchouli, a few herbs and spices. On skin it has that unmistakable amber heart. Sweet, resinous, vanillic, lightly syrupy. This one is very straight forward with a touch of spice that provides the most personality. It isn't wildly original. It is just a high quality, pleasant, completely unisex rendition of this DNA with a little spice. Comparing it to other significant ambers on the market that I'll give a few brief comparisons. Ambre Sultan by Serge Lutens has a similar heart but is bursting with spices and darkly resinous. Lovely but more masculine and more challenging than Ambre 114 but still unisex as ambers often are. Noir Ambrè by Issey Miyake is quite spicy, leathery and masculine. It reminds me a bit of the smell of molasses sugar drop cookies. A spicy brown sugar accord is there with the amber heart. It is fantastically good and both one of the best ambers released in the past 20 years and one of the best designer releases of all time. If you like more traditionally masculine fragrances and can somehow find a bottle for a non-insane price, buy it immediately. It is of niche quality. This is not a typical reference amber. It is doing its own thing. Ambre Sauvage Absolu by Goutal is fairly similar to Ambre 114 from memory, but it has a woodiness that reminds me of the smell of pulp from a paper mill. A toasty papery quality that is really lovely. The more I smelled my sample, the more I appreciated it. It is just good. Definitely another amber that is closer to Ambre 114. A sweet comforting amber. I think the blackwood may be the ingredient imparting that paper-like accord but I can't be sure. I haven't smelled it in some time now. Worth sampling. Au Coeur du Désert by Tauer is an incredibly bold, resinous, woody, middle eastern amber. It smells like its name. Andy Tauer more than any perfumeur, knows how to capture the smell and soul of desert sand. Using spices like cumin and coriander he uses the amber to give off part of the middle eastern feel. Golden brown like desert sand-dunes before sunset. Dry spicy sand that has been baked all day in the sun. This is for people with more experience with fragrances who are familiar with ambers, have a few of the "reference" ambers and want to experience amber as a part of a olfactory image. Something transportive and unusual yet elegant. This is finest amber I own. A masterpiece. Hopefully this gives you a good idea of where Ambre 114 sits. It is a classic, standard amber. If you are curious about niche ambers and haven't tried one, this is a great place to start. The 15ml bottles are well priced on discounters making this far less of a risk as a blind buy. Personally I like my fragrances a bit more masculine and dark, but I like Ambre 114 and I wear it and I will vouche for its quality. It's a cozy fragrance. I like to wear it at home. Most people find it quite pleasant.

Sharp spicy opening for 5-10minutes. Then delicious quite ambery powdery vanilla. I like it, I'd just wait for the opening and layer the fragrance with another one, or uses intimately.

Beautiful ambery fragrance

Definitely a nice and basic amber fragrance. It smells a little like Laurentian pencil shavings (IYKYK) at first but settles into a more mature, moderate resinous amber that isn’t mouth-wateringly sweet. *Absolutely* a safe blind buy!

This is definitely a safe blind buy if you like vanilla with mild hints of spice but personally I find this extremely boring (I prefer something like cobalt amber by Abel) Longevity review: Very weak after around four hours but the spice I would say lasts as long as the vanilla although the vanilla stands out to me more. I'd say if you want a longer lasting version of Choco Musk then go for this instead of having to reapply throughout the day especially as I find the spice in choco musk lasts as long as waiting for a supper out of a chip shop

Testing blind the amber is apparent, and the overall feel is medium light with a warm shadow. I thought maybe there was a leather or tobacco accord going on in blind wearing it, where the woods, nutmeg and vanilla combine for the warm fuzzy feeling. The amber rather floats on top. At times it reads more feminine up there but leaning masculine in the middle. It says light affair dinner party, and don't bring that cheap wine you been trying to pawn off as a gift to somebody else, for gods sake put something nice on, and definitely don't bring "that" person. So while I like it (admittedly I think I'm an amber person), this i find pleasant, but dare I say not as colorful or interesting as many other personalities from this house? It's fairly safe for a warm and fuzzy amber forward fragrance. And with longevity and projection both getting high marks, I'd consider it a good buy, even as a gift for the amber leaning crowd. Just not sure I need it.

Alas, this one doesn't play well with my skin chemistry, which is a shame! It's notably different from the other two ambers I have (Ambre Sultan and Ambre Nuit) so I was hoping it could round out my amber collection. On a testing strip, it's a very sweet, rich, slightly powdery amber, well-balanced and unisex. On my wrist, the sweetness recedes and the powdery note is pulled strongly to the front, altogether smelling a little unbalanced, and leaning feminine rather than unisex. The powdery-ness is partly due to some old-school style musks present I think, which I associate with a grandparent personally and might explain my feminine interpretation. Definitely some similarities to Musc Ravageur. Try it if you like ambers, you might love it! But I don't recommend blind buying, as it seems best not to assume that this will smell as-expected on you, even if other ambers do.

same style as Grand soir but cheaper and a little more cloying? i definitely enjoy GS more. but nice affordable atlternative niche

Was looking for a perfume to inaugurate a new era of employment and stumbled upon this gorgeous scent at the mall. It opens very heavy on the amber with notes of wood that is very reminiscent of the oud (or other wood) perfumes that would waft around in a mosque. Over time, it dries down into this sweet and powdery amber that feels confectionary, almost like the layer of powder that coats marshmallows to keep them from sticking to each other. I enjoy this sweetness and find that it pairs really well with the amber. The other listed notes notes are completely lost on my nose, it's fully an amber, wood, and sugar scent to me. It lasts quite a long time on my skin, maybe around 8-10 hours.

Supposedly there are 114 elements that go into an amber per the press blurb for Ambre 114. There must be an error in translation because in 2001 and prior, when Ambre 114 was launched, there were not 114 elements on the periodic table. Of the less than 114 that were on the table I highly doubt some are included in ambers (e.g. the lanthanides, actinides). Also, there isn't a standard formulation for an amber, as far as I'm aware, so saying there is a 114 of anything in every amber perfume is misleading at best. All of this aside and thinking of the key point to be made, what we call an amber accord is very complex and multifaceted. There is a reason why it's been the darling of perfumery for an age, not the least being because it's cheap to make and it lasts for a long time on skin (making the consumer feel like they're getting better value out of every spray). It's hard to say anything new about ambers, from the perfumer's perspective. So, does the tag-team of Gerald Ghislain and Sylvie Jourdet reinvent this wheel that has been rolling over us for the better part of a century? Nope, not at all. But what it does do is convince me that if I were going to learn the science and techniques behind modern perfumery in an attempt to become a perfumer myself, I would want to learn from Sylvie Jourdet. Ms. Jourdet is a professor at ISIPCA and the University of Montpellier, in addition to composing perfumes for numerous brands including Histoires. Having experienced numerous Histoires perfumes, it's Ms. Jourdet's take on amber that convinces me of her talent, knowledge, and especially her clarity of thought and process in composition. The creativity that goes into her compositions varies, but the execution is always textbook - true to her calling as an educator and a consistent guiding light to the novice or the floundering. Just like a mathematics professor working through a proof on a blackboard, or a chemistry professor working through a formula in a lab, there is a consistency, accuracy, precision, and deftness to Ms. Jourdet's compositions. Though Ambre 114 does not present us with anything new in the amber genre, I cannot say that it is anything less than superbly executed. Every single note is in the right place, speaks at the right volume, times its dry down perfectly to the coordinated evolution of the perfume (or the story, as Histoires would prefer to put it), and the materials are of excellent quality for the purpose of the composition. There are herbs and fresh seed spices keeping the top bright and energetic; florals, patchouli, woods, and vetiver in the heart give it body, structure, and complexity through soft and powdery flowers, spicy and earthy tones, and refined and sophisticated woods in the form of resins and smooth smoke; in the base vanilla, tonka bean, and benzoin, give us amber's burnished glow through warmth, pleasant and not-overwhelming vanilla sweetness, baking spices, and balsams. This is the template for an amber, and what Histoires have done is put a high-quality form of that template in a bottle for us to reference at any given time. If any of you reading this have read other reviews of mine you know that I am worn-out on and tired of ambers, their overuse and all-too-frequent poor quality continue to push the genre further and further down my preferences list. But even I, disillusioned pessimist that I am, have to admit that this is a stellar amber.

So, I purchased Profumum Roma "Ambra Aurea" and Histoires de Parfums "Ambre 114." Decided to experience them in proximity, day-to-day. I do not feel knowledgable enough about amber-centric perfumes for my review to hold much weight. I know very little about amber fragrances. Any amber based fragrances I ever tried were worn way in the past, like nearly a decade back. Histories de Parfums "Ambre 114" is lovely, it really is. And while I "like" both Ambra Aurea and Ambre 114, I've grown to LOVE Ambra Aurea. Ambre 114 opens in a discernibly lighter, less dense, less thick way than Ambra Aurea. The perfume opens with smooth, ethereal, comforting wood-based notes. I imagine some spiciness in the opening. However, within minutes, the perfume develops with the loveliest mixture of gentle florals, light woody accords and a dusty, powdery dryness. Ambre 114 lands with florals, amber (of course), vanilla and musk. There is a discernible bitterness, or sharpness due to the tonka bean. The overall blend of the multiple listed notes is perfection, IMHO. The additional floral, patchouli and mixed-wood notes add interest and intrigue to the fragrance's development on skin. Duration and silage are moderate. Ambre 114 is not syrupy, or boozy, nor is it thick, or dense. Ambre 114 is dusty, arid, very dry and slightly powdery. I DEFINITELY feel Ambre 114 leans a wee-bit more feminine than Ambra Aurea. I like Ambre 114. I really adore Ambra Aurea.

Mouai , très moyen , un ambré doux , tres leger discret, projection et sillage minimaliste , de meme pour la tenue. Vous prenez Ambre sultan de Serge Lutens et vous le diluez avec 4 fois plus d'alcool. Voila ce qu'est Ambre 114 Ils ont mit beaucoup trop d'alcool dedans , à l'ouverture on a meme l'impression que c'est un parfum bon marché... Je ne retrouve pas la 'qualité de niche ' qu'il devrait y avoir .

Don't you love a fragrance where, it's so well blended that it's hard to pick out the individual notes? Well, that's this one! A spicy amber, woody fragrance, suitable for both sexes. The rose and vanilla are so well blended, it just smells "really good". What makes me love this is the vetiver..rose, vanilla and vetiver is a winning combination. Being truly unisex, this one is a really great "his and hers" scent, a good one to share with a partner. You will both smell awesome but not the same, as chemistry pulls different notes. It was more spicy on my guy than myself, where it dried down warm and smooth, like a cozy sweater on a cool day. My only criticism is that it doesn't last long...it becomes a skin scent quickly on me. And that's sad for me because this one has such an inviting drydown. Smells a lot like L'eau D'Ambre Extreme by L'Artisan Parfums. Which I love but it's hard to get in the States. Not sure if I will pop for an FB. The lack of performance is holding me back.

Anyone wondering about the comparisons to Montale Blue Amber, this one is like you just put on a luxury perfumed body lotion and are curling up in a cashmere blanket/sweater and maybe just made cookies, Blue Amber is almost more old Hollywood vibes, big fur coat, cigarette smoking, diamonds and pearls. This one is slightly easier to wear but also slightly more non descript. If i had to get a bottle I think I’d go for Montale’s Blue Amber, it just says more. This is nice though.

The opening is very nutty, aromatic mixed with some amber and faintly, some vanilla. It evolves into a smooth amber vanilla combination, it has a really subtle resinous sweetness to it that i really enjoy. It has pretty good longevity and performance. I personally really enjoy this but i understand it's not for everyone. Imo it's a really unique but easy to understand fragrance with good performance and longevity.

Spicy dry opening, the kind that is so dry it makes you want to sneeze. Some old school masculine aromatic/chypre vibes to it too for about 10-15 minutes, then it starts to go in this more bubblegum vanillic resinous realm. It doesn't really feel balanced as much as I like everything that's in here. There's something missing about it. Most of what you get is powdery vanilla and synthetic smelling sandalwood and patchouli, so it reminds me a bit too much of modern designer scents. If you added some fruit to this it would lose all its magic and fit in well on a Sephora shelf. Not that there's something wrong with that at all, but this is one of those I'd wear if someone gifted it to me but I wouldn't pay for.

One of the worst amber perfumes