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zwer007 – :
Fumerie turque Lutens vibe
burjt – :
I absolutely love this mossy treacle of an amber. It’s so thick and rich you feel like you can almost taste it. Totally entrancing stuff. The longevity is impressive too.
indeliafady – :
Bam! Straight to the favorites-shelf!
Warm, dense, dark and animalic amber. Not too sweet. There’s something very subliminal about Ambra Nera; it’s like a relic from a completely different era (that rhymes rather nicely). Another life… And still it somehow feels familiar and contemporary. I totally agree with hadassa: this is majestic and smells like history.
Stellar performance. Absolutely glorious scent.
Teceabsendpen – :
So many fragrances are evocative of scent memories that I generally avoid using the term “nostalgia” in perfume reviews, but Ambra Nera gives me a feeling I can only describe as nostalgic. Alfarom’s review below is a perfect description: this fragrance evokes feelings and sensations of rooms filled with refined antiquities and precious herbs and spices. In such a room, I would not be surprised to see Oscar Wilde.
Beautiful, haunting, and intriguing.
skk722speagoessenda – :
A powdery, dusty, slightly bitter amber delight. I love so many ambers and shouldn’t want more but am savoring my sample of this so much that I might have to add it to my collection. Ambra nera+cool winter breeze=heaven.
mallidizni – :
“Sweet & Assertive Amber”
Not a bad fragrance at all, but there are better options out there for a bit money money. Too sweet for my taste.
golani7685 – :
Unique, complex, dense, obscure, dusty, silghtly animalic and completely addictive
911-masters – :
This is gorgeous precious stuff. A labdanum centred perfume with layers and glorious layers of deep thick honey. Oh yes, this is sweet, but also herbaceous. Very classy and controlled. This will envelope you in a bucolic haze of burnished caramel. There is however, a beguilingly rugged depth to it. A close to primordial nature element. Like stepping back in time to a medieval forest. This smells ancient.
I tried and tried but I cannot find the name of the perfumer who created this scent. My guess is this formula has been around for a long time, given Farmacia SS Annunziata’s history.
Hands down, one of my favourite ambers (it is up there with O Hira). I don’t understand why this house gets so little attention. For the price, quality and evocative power, this is unparalleled. I prefer this over Profumum’s Ambra Aurea and Fiori D’Ambra by a long shot. This, in my opinion, has far greater complexity.
You do need to like honey in all its facets though. The honey here is fierce and bordering on animalic. I do love it. Ambra Nera is addictive. Every night before bed, I will uncap the atomizer and sniff the spray nozzle. I do this unfailingly and subconsciously for a handful of perfumes that I consider true love. The rest of em don’t ever come close 🙂
RONNYBOY – :
This superbly constructed amber has no jagged edges, its austerity coming from the green notes that are presented in an effortless and refined manner. It’s not sweet, but there’s no dryness either. I cannot compare it to any of the usual suspects, it’s its own category of amber; a medieval golden amber. Unique, mandatory sniff for anyone who likes ambers, orientals etc.
Yuriks6 – :
Ambra Nera evokes complexity and authenticity.
See their quality by the way that works focusing on a chord but with all other participating and making it intriguing.
A herbal blend with resinous notes in harmony with the almighty and sweet amber, sometimes they stand out and after, the ambar stands , as if the amber it were like beating heart, vibrating and beating them in correct time.
Later appears a more comfort through the vanilla / benjoin combo has also a mature classic touch covered up, which brings even more notorious characteristics of a great perfume.
Rating: 9-9,5/10
zakc – :
I do not know how far does this our unbridled desire for knowledge about the fragrances that exist in the outside world, sometimes find myself wondering to myself here and conclude that this hike is more infinite than the length of heaven itself. The italianíssima Maison Farmacia SS. Annunziata, is the best there is, in my view, to define through its perfumísticas skills, the concept of naturalness printed on a fragrance, compared to fad and hypes that the world perfumery market has lately undergone the shelves.
The naturalness with which Farmacia SS. Annunziata handles your products is a sublimity so eminent, that the sensation of light-headedness, confusion, uncertainty about what you have, and what they use no more until that feeling was fading completely, and that takes a bit since the fragrances of Maison are available in concentration Parfum Concentrated and secure, and exhale, beyond our understanding.
Ambra Nera has a heavy opening, dark, something bordering on the density of an obscure climate with specific characteristics of a people / culture that is far from the capitalist world which we are daily exploited and oppressed by it. The note of benzoin is reminiscent of a ritual the edge of a volcano under an intense, scorching sun, which also uses root of Patchouli for smoking in its most raw form and “spiritually” speaking, condensed the characteristics of the described time.
Soon, the fragrance reveals the other side of the volcano, there is a eucalyptus forest, burned down the same scorching sun, to the point of exhaling with the help of a wise wind, the smell not only of burnt leaves of vegetation, as well as aspects aromatic wood scorched by the sun’s rays. For me, this very stage refers to radiant footprint Annick Goutal Ambre Fetish in with that same aspect resin / woody which is between sweet and rustic, characterizing it as an entirely shareable fragrance.
Saying goodbye after a day fixed in the skin and a 10 h exuding culture / behavior / authenticity, Ambra Nera is woody, but virile nothing, because of an addictive sweet of heated resinous nuances that exude and fight stick-to-stick with aromatic wood touches (wood) that pungem this stage to see who reveals himself more than anyone. All this, without losing the originality of the natural, the unheard, the transcendent, the arriving and almost no longer goes […]
What makes this fragrance a phenomenon that brings us even culture, is the simplicity of the notes that she carries, combines, and unveils a memorial subjectivity that is housed in the records of the brain, and from there form in the imagination, one ideology of strands a truth not yet known, but we know that somewhere it exists. Farmacia SS. Annunziata has my respect.
GFRova – :
Loved Hadassa & Alfarom’s reviews. They really did a great job describing this fragrance. This is truly wonderfully made blend and I loved it very much. Darker, greener, little moldy type of amber, except it’s a bit challenging to wear.
xvorx – :
Outstanding, non-sweet, herbal masculine amber, it smells Medieval and moldy in the best possible way: it is the most authentic smell of a very, very old library in an ancient Western European monastery.
The “mold” I am talking about smells like mushrooms, yes, I do mean it, but, surprisingly enough, it’s a wonderful smell and it blends lovely with the skin… No rot here, just big, old, musty folios all over.
Gosh, I feel hypnotized by this perfume. It has a a very “elevated”, almost majestic feel, it smells like history.
I would not wear it on my skin, it does not smell like a perfume, it’s just too charged with stories to wear it often. Definitely a masterpiece.
CCCP-artem – :
This is GORGEOUS stuff if you like dark-green herbal ambers. Great balance between challenging vegetal notes (almost animalic) and resinous woody amber (as opposed to woodyamber). Thick but not heavy, moderately sweet, enveloping but not loud and, most of all, far from the typical head-shop vibe of many fragrances playng similar themes…Last but not least, it comes in Parfum strength.
Smells ancient, dark, mouldy, nocturnal and absolutely compelling. This is to amber-centered fragrances, what Mazzolari Lui is to patchouli.
Top quality stuff.
Rating: 8/10
Luris87 – :
Smells like a cute little souvenir store built from wood located in maybe Aspen, Colorodo or the mountains of Switzerland. You know the kind where little chachkas are laid out in straw baskets with red ribbons. The store has a dog who is allowed to be in the store. Maybe they sell candles too.
*Finished wood with a sweet amber sap to it.
This is a smell I would expect from a room NOT a fragrance.
Not my type at all.