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kroha – :
this starts off very woody and smoky. the resins and labdanum are noticeable, with hints of vanilla and benzoin. i do not get patchouli. this is dry and smoky and a bit churchy. it’s primarily incense and resins, very thick, warm and meditative. i like this one a lot, though i don’t think of it as an amber scent, really…
Bluz11 – :
This is very, very beautiful. Probably one of the only ambers I’ve fully gotten into. It has both a light floral smell and a deeply resinous one.
Quite complex actually, and there’s even a bit of patchouli! Incense smoke, vanilla… amber… what’s not to love?
fenfen – :
This opens with a medicinal smell, which subsides in 10 minutes. After that it mostly smells like a slightly more feminine, warmer version of Avignon. It’s not what I was looking for, but it’s beautiful and well-made.
oeb601speagoessenda – :
Hmm. I bought this hoping for amber + incense. Amber is my all time favorite note. But I’m getting absolutely zero from this one. :
This might as well be Avignon on me, it is straight up incense. Don’t get me wrong, I like incense but I already own Avignon so I don’t really need another smoker, I was hoping for creamy/sweet/salty amber with incense to keep it from being just another Hermes L’Ambre Des Merveilles. I might try layering this with the previously mentioned L’Ambre and see if that creates the scent I’m after.
draga20 – :
Olympic Amber has been on my wishlist for the longest time and I finally got my hands on a bottle and it is pretty much everything I thought it would be – One of the best Amber frags hands down. SL Ambre Sultan (Vintage) has been my reference amber for the longest time and I have gone through over 4 bottles of it over the years. Olympic Amber is it’s dark counterpart, Darth Vader to it’s Obi Wan, Saruman to Ambre Sultan’s Gandalf, you get the idea.
It is a very nice resinous labdanum, made a bit darker and maybe smokier with the incense and the benzoin, woods and patchouli giving it an earthy feel as well. I feel the vanilla adds a necessary bit of sweetness that balances it out beautifully. Good projection and fantastic longevity, easily 9-10 hours with 3 sprays. Ellen Covey is one really talented perfumer, and to think this was created as just a base for her other fragrances! The first time I wore it my sister commented that I smelled like I just came back from the temple, the incense, smoke, lamp oils, flowers, fruits, etc and it does have that vibe, the smell of a holy place. As far as Amber fragrances go, it is worthy of worship. 9/10. If you love amber frags, blind buy this.
stella014 – :
The woods fill your lungs with every swing. You hack furiously, searching. Minutes turn into hours as you fell tree after tree – you are covered in the chips of your victims and drenched in their viscous life essence. You are a madman hellbent on finding your prize. You heard fabulous tales of the mystical fairies that reside in the trunks of the trees in this forest, and of the countless riches and blessings bestowed upon the lucky fools who stumbled upon greatness. You need to find this fairy no matter what. Sparks fly from your glancing axes in their flurry of greys and burning embers – the smoke soaks into your wooded flesh. Dozens of these giant, majestic beings lay around your exhausted mass of steaming muscle – the ground rises to meet your face, unexpectedly. You dream of your precious fairy – she teases your inability to find her. You chase her endlessly, following the golden tendrils she leaves behind – as you pass through their wake, it leaves a gentle vanilla and warm amber that laces into the crevices of your wooden flesh. You awake in a startle, your skin aglow – your fairy must have found you in your slumber…maybe luck will find you as well.
Day 71 – Worth it
Listening to: Massive Attack – Angel
Notes: A seven note wonder! It is stated to be the amber base used by the company to infuse into other fumes…and it really does stand beautifully on its own. This is also one of very few ingredient lists that actually encompass what is in the fume – I know I appreciate the straightforwardness! The opening is a massive blast of fresh cut cedar and delicious sap! I can hardly believe how realistic is is – it makes me want to go chop wood! This phase lasts a good example or 4 hours on my skin before easing into a slightly smoky wood and patchouli mixed with a soft vanilla. It just remains here for several more hours until sweet nothings float up from your skin – it’s just a soft and resinous vanilla! Aptly worn by any sex and would work as a way to spruce up any shallow vanilla or woody fume – designer meets niche! Simple yet beautiful!
samanthamdaniels – :
Wonderful, grounding amber. On me, well balanced, comforting, fuzzy smooth like a Cashmere sweater. Starts with a sweet-tart incense and balsam, then a deep, deep honey with pepper notes. The phenolic patchouli and faint, salty vanilla bring the lasting end. Deeply comforting. This is a perfume for a windy day walk under a half-sunny, half-clouded sky, lakeside.
Aerohoplenerinke – :
كما تفضل سابقا اخي وصديقي العزيز شريف عبدالمنعم في تدوينة سابقة بعنوان “شقي العنبر” وكيف لجأ العطرجية الى استخدام اكوردات من اللابدانوم والراتنجات كالبنزوين لتخليق نوتة العمبر الغالية الثمن ، في الحقيقة لقد استفدت من هذا المقال الجميل
اللابدانوم والبنزوين الراتنجي واللبان العطري والقليل من الفانيليا والباتشولي ، الإفتتاحية رائحة بخور اللبان مايلبث ان يتحول الى عطر عمبري سويتي دافيء ، عطر جميل المكونات ويشبه في بعض مراحله هواء الصحراء المغربية ، مع انه من اجمل عطور هذه المجموعة لكن لارى اي داعي لاقتناؤه لوجود عطور كثيرة في هذا المضمار ولن يضيف لك اقتناءوه اي جديد ، الرائحة شبه مألوفة ، افضل عطورهم من ناحية الثبات والفوحان متوسط.
usd635Unlogrere – :
Amber is my favorite and this one is VERY good. It strikes a perfect balance between spicy and sweet and the labdanum is just right. Resinous with good sillage and longevity.
minyk – :
Best incense-amber I’ve tried to date. It truly smells like exquisite incense, over a foundation of complex, resinous amber with a slight medicinal edge to balance the sweetness. I’m a die-hard amber lover and I have been looking for a perfume like this for a while. They all fall short of my expectations. This one is truly special. I can honestly say that this is a perfect amber.
indeec86 – :
I think I would classify this as an ambered incense as the incense resins are the most prominent to my nose into the drydown, along with some woods. The opening is quite jarring: a blast of medicinal incense resins which smells like a combo of camphorous Tiger Balm and a bit of rootbeer-ish salicylates. That settles in about 10 minutes and then it is mostly incense and woods with a hush of benzoin and labdanum. It faded fairly quickly on my skin and was barely detectable after 2 hours. I don’t find it sweet or syrupy like some others do. I do like incense and ambers and it would make a nice cooler weather scent but I have other favorites in those categories so probably just enjoy my sample for now.
bratyha – :
As you all may already know, Olympic Amber is “originally formulated as a base for other perfumes”. So let’s suppose this fragrance is a solo bass performance. Not only an amazing one, but hell of an exhilarating solo performance by Victor Wooten!
I’m not really into amber perfumes. The fact is most warm and sweet scents are somehow cloying to me. But I almost love it in the cold weather. Balsams, vanilla, woody and smoky notes are all in the right place, and the labdanum holds the key to my heart.
Amber fans! Do not miss this one.
svetusa – :
An Ambery Eiderdown expertly toasted evoking nostalgia of One Thousand and One Nights. A golden sundance of florals capitulates in the wake of buttery vanilla which stimulates the senses in a manner only foody notes can do. Shaved wood chips drizzled onto a candied base of patchouli adds a comfort level that’s not only pleasing but intimate. Heaven isn’t hard to find, just go straight and make a left….and there it is, Olympic Amber.
amouhodorry – :
More medicinal than sweet but still very syrupy. Spicy, thick resins layered on rich woods. Lasts well, good for cooler months.
nikntn – :
I am a confirmed amber devotee, lover of all things golden sweet and resinous. I was very excited to sniff this scent, and felt so sure it would be good. But truth be told, I am a bit disappointed. The resinous, medicinal opening is quite nice (if you’re into that kind of thing, and I am), more daring than many an amber starts- though not verging so far out as to be comparable to the Sultan. But after the intensity of the top notes burn off a bit this scent turns into what I think is a bit of a simplistic vanilla scent with some quirky imbalances. It is soft and not overly sweet to my nose but it seems to lack a bit of the depth complexity I crave in a bottle worthy dry down, I get none of the smokiness others describe here. But more importantly, there is a back note that took me a number of wearings to put my finger on, a note that unless perfectly blended I really can’t quite associate with anything other than cheap shampoo. Finally, it came to me- Hedione. Hedione is a wonder molecule, able to do such glorious things to a scent that it can be tempting for perfumers to put it in everything, and indeed many of them do (functional products like shampoo included). In this case, the squeaky clean lemony jasmine “shampoo” (my association) undertone just seems so out of place in a scent aiming to be a dark resinous amber, that now that I have identified it I can’t get the Hedione out of my nose. This dischord keeps distracting me from what could at the very least be a comforting vanilla with an intriguing open. So, not bad by any means, but I guess I do wish that either the hedione had been more carefully blended (hidden) or perhaps dropped as a crutch all together. I am sure this scent will still appeal to a great many, particularly those who use perfumed bath products and are probably relatively anosmic to all but the heavy doses of hedione. Happy Sniffing!
rewazo – :
Wow, such a beauty. When I first tried this on my skin it started out a bit sharp and medicinal, but with further tries I see that you need to wait about 15 minutes for this beauty to begin to reveal itself. The woodsy notes (which smell very cedar and Olympic forest to me) blend with the other notes to create an entrancing and enchanting smoky resin with just a bit of vanilla to make the final drydown soft incensy smokiness.
With each passing hour, Olyympic Amber becomes more beautiful. It seems to belong in the spell of a sorceress, a very beautiful one, who uses this scent in some ancient religious or celebratory rite. I can see this as the scent of the lovely dragon queen Daenerys in Game of Thrones. This scent seems appropriate for the Dothraki rituals that always seemed to feature incense and smoke and for dealing with fiery and smoky dragons.
ToofPhobe – :
Incredible. This is so different from other ambers, which as a rule I do NOT like as it’s usually too sweet and cloying. Opens with a beautiful hit of labdanum, benzoin and incense then a beautiful wood note and the perfect touch of patchouli. Smoky and resinous and just freaking gorgeous. I agree with Vie Cafe, this is amber from the dark side.
rewokat_33 – :
I am a lover of amber. I adore it as a note in perfume and it’s smells great on my skin.
This is the best amber I have ever smelled.
It’s divinely stunning, raw, dirty and smoky. This amber is a free spirit, a wild child, an olfactory force not to be messed with.
Olympic Amber is resinous, woody, sweet, spicy and full of incense, with the delicious amber dominating of course.
This scent has spoiled me because I don’t think I will love another amber fragrance as much as I love this. The whole composition is uplifting and makes me feel happily nostalgic and I don’t know why.
The strength of this is brilliant, so a light hand is needed, and I sprayed the smallest amount in my cleavage and I have enjoyed its beautiful fragrance wafting continuously up at me all morning.
I NEED a FB of this ASAP! Even though I am broke from Christmas, I WILL have this little beauty in my collection before the summer.
Love love love love love!! I am besotted, hooked, mesmerised by this fragrance’s Wiley charms, one day my pretty, you will be all mine!!!!
yura212 – :
I am extra-sensitive to certain cistus (labdanum) products, and this fragrance is full of the kind that makes my nose burn. It smells sharply medicinal, in constant tension with an overbearing warm sweet benzoin.
west-go – :
176) Transcendence of labdanum
Un ambre complexe (c’est rare) de très belle facture. Il s’ouvre religieusement, fumé par l’encens d’une église baroque, puis évolue vers des aspects plus résineux en coeur. C’est la partie la plus réussie, ce n’est plus tout à fait l’ambre dans le sens de la parfumerie (mélange de ciste-labdanum + vanilline) mais l’ambre tel qui pourrait suinter d’une coupure dans l’écorce d’un arbre.
Si le mélange est harmonieux sur votre peau vous pourrez sentir des notes fleuries et boisées qui le rende presque frais et printanier.
J’y détecte un labdanum aromatique particulièrement réussi qu’Ellen Covey à utilisé aussi dans toutes ses créations de Devil Scent Project. Elle l’utilise peut êre comme une signature et tant mieux pour elle c’est vraiment unique.
Il a une très belle longévité.
Pour moi il n’est pas assez comparable à l’ambre 114 d’HdP comme signalé, il est même meilleur.
Original, complexe, j’Adore!
A complex amber (which is rare) beautifully crafted. It opens religiously smoked by a baroque church incense, then progresses to more resinous aspects in heart. It is the most successful part is not quite amber in the sense of perfumery (a mixture of cistus-labdanum + vanillin) but amber as that could ooze from a cut in the bark of a tree.
If the mixture is balanced on your skin you can smell floral and woody notes that make it almost fresh and spring.
I detect an aromatic labdanum particularly successful that Ellen Covey used also in all his Devil Scent Project creations. She uses it may be as a signature and all the better for her It is truly unique.
nice longevity.
For me it is not quite comparable to the amber 114 HdP as reported, it is even better.
Original, complex, J’Adore!
Dinar2412 – :
Bravo!
A perfectly executed amber, honestly. It nails the balance between sweet and resinous with a hint of smoke. A always, the quality is absolutely top notch. Lasting power is brilliant.
replicae92936 – :
Patchouli and labdanum open the door to this refined amber scent. They are quickly joined by a warmed, not smokey frankincense and sweet benzoin. Woody vanilla completes the composition for a semi-complex amber. No intense smoke at all in my opinion nor is it overwhelming in any sense of the word. Just really good juice. A+++
Tunoks1989 – :
Smoky amber… Nice but not for me. Too much like a lot of others scents out there.
Deroxwntkj – :
This perfume reminds me of Revlon Fire & Ice. It is warm and bold, and was originally designed as a base for other perfumes of OLYMPIC ORCHIDS. What I like is a certain thickness and lasting power, like perfumes should be made. Little wafts of honey and continuous elegant vanilla make it a wearable perfume, best suited for the Fall and Winter season. It feels like a niche scent with a statement.
Metsn814elipseskism – :
Opens deeply resinous, woody, warm, and with a thick overlay of incense. Very quickly into the opening the labdanum becomes present and remains as one of the dominant notes in this fragrance. Benzoin and vanilla make a lovely appearance, softening and rounding off this perfume into a cozy, luxurious, oriental scent. The incense and labdanum in this are prominent, lovely, intoxicating even, but the heavy use of those notes definitely has the potential to be cloying; this isn’t a perfume I’d be choosing to wear in the summer. Oriental lovers should have a crack at this one, and I’ll be adding this one to my collection.
fedtildwlt – :
Not your everyday amber! The labdanum is more prominent than in other ambers I have tried as is the vanilla. Olympic Amber is listed as a fragrance for men or women. On my skin it has a more feminine character, but I can imagine this as a masculine scent as well. I would wear this fragrance in Fall and Winter or apply it sparingly very early in the morning any time of the year. Olympic Orchid Fragrances last a long time for me, often 12 hours or more. I don’t mind this because the scents, while certainly detectable by others, remain personal, pleasing to others but not overpowering.
zmei2000 – :
This is a deep and warm delicious amber scent with a floral and light gourmand touch.