Description
Armani launches a new luxurious fragrance in 2014 called Ombre & Lumiere, inspired by the Armani couture collection for spring-summer 2014 season. The scent belongs to the exclusive line Armani Privé and its sub-collection Armani Privé Les Éditions Couture. Armani Privé Les Éditions Couture so far included the following editions: La Femme Bleue from the 2011, La Femme Nacre from 2012 and Nuances from 2013.
Armani Privé Ombre & Lumiere concentrates on a note of iris, supported by Sambac jasmine. These two flowers represent the contrast indicated in the name of the perfume – shadow and light. The composition includes additional accords of bergamot and freesia water at the top and ambrox and musk extracts in the base.
The fragrance is available as 100 ml Eau de Parfum in only 120 copies at the price of € 550.
o.bender – :
I recently bought six different decants of the iris-centric scents of Armani Prive and I am, so far, surprised by how ordinary many of them are despite the limited editions and insane prices. O & L is a very spare jasmine dominant scent that begins with promising green/citrus notes and an unmistakeable fresh and cool iris note that quickly leads way to white flowers and powder to smell like a close relative of Hiris if only for a few minutes. After that it’s all jasmine with it’s screechy aspects tamed by a cuddly ambroxan and white musk base. Yes it is pretty but yes this could also be a drugstore bargain scent from the 60s or 70s. To each their own but O & L stands out as particularly ludicrous in regard to price vs. content.
swat – :
Save your pennies and try Perfume Parlour’s dupe of this. The dupes are usually spot on, sometimes better than the original. I haven’t smelled the original but I believe my perfume oil is quite accurate.
nature_green – :
OMG it’s gorgeous!!! Truly absolutely gorgeous!!! Its such a beautiful feminine perfume, elegant and desirable, luxurious and passionate. It’s so sensual. So divine! It’s my favourite perfume. Favourite, favourite, favourite!!! Stunning! A beautiful thing. Such fantastic iris and jasmine – oh, oh, oh!! Swooooon! My husband adores it too, we both swoon away together! And the bottle is fabulous! Wow, fantastic colour. I love it!! I love this perfume! I love love love it to the end of time!!
dicorr – :
Tried a sample of this and yes it is gorgeous. It reminded me of Light Blue by D and G. As lovely as it is, it didnt last very well at all on me, an hour or so thats all – so for me not worth the price. Very lovely smell, but needs to be re-sprayed to enjoy the fragrance. x
Hutsstorb – :
Of the 3 Armani Privé Les Éditions Couture fragrances that I own (Nacre, Nuances and this one), Ombre & Lumiere is by far the most floral heavy. However it’s the Jasmine and Freesia that I detect the most, rather than the Iris which Armani lists as the star of the show.
Luckily for me I adore Jasmine and the Jasmine in this creation is wonderful. To my nose it’s not even slightly indolic or skanky and it reminds me mostly of the species of ‘night’ Jasmine found in abundance in Sydney Australia in suburban household gardens. The scent is only present after dusk and is quite heady and rich (for want of a better description). For me it’s this Jasmine that is the star of Armani’s creation.
The Iris and musk do make an appearance after about the first hour and then it dries down beautifully to a more familiar musky, floral and amber combination.
Like all the Armani Privé Les Éditions Couture fragrances, the presentation of Ombre & Lumiere is simply stunning! The bottle is gorgeous and it comes wrapped and tied in the same deep coloured fabric as seen in the advertisement.
Although this is a 5 star fragrance, I don’t think it will get nearly as much use as my Nacre or Nuances do; mainly due to its floral heavy nature.
imperio – :
Powdery floral musk in the same ballpark as Heeley Iris de Nuit, only I far prefer the Heeley. Rather shockingly ordinary for the price.
mr.bean – :
$740 CDN for this is too much. On the other hand- it is good enough for collection. The bottle is a beauty.
mgeladze – :
Actually, there are 1000 copies of “Ombre&Lumière”, of whom 120 copies are destined for the market in France.
I have copy No 541 of 1000.
The scent is very elegant and sophisticated
Although floral, can be classified as unisex – thanks amber.
J’adore….
tiagachovski – :
This smells like Heaven oh my god. It has a lot of iris for sure and it’s much warmer than the notes indicate (warmer than Pierre de Lune from the Armani Privé line which also has iris). I would start saving up if it wasn’t limited edition…
vegeta – :
WOW this is so GREAT one of the best fragrance for woman , I tried now at : LA RINASCENTE MILANO PIAZZA DUOMO AND HAVE ONLY 7 COPIES (ALL WORLD 120 COPIES)
EURO 550.
1234567890assa – :
I agree with Houdini4, I’m a real fan of the Armani Prive line and I have bottles of both Nuances & Nacre; so I’m definitely going to try and sample this at least!
valdorosh – :
Sounds very ordinary in the notes. i would not buy it even if it was sold for $10
Morpex1812 – :
The bottle looks great…really fantastic!
The notes however don’t look very appealing to me but everyone of the prive’s I’ve tried (which is pretty much all of them now) whether feminine or not are really well executed. I’m such this won’t be an exception, can’t wait to try it and find out.