Ambre Gris 2008

Ambre Gris by Balmain
Bottle Design Christophe Decarnin
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7.5 / 10 447 Ratings
Ambre Gris is a popular perfume by Balmain for women and was released in 2008. The scent is spicy-powdery. It was last marketed by Inter Parfums. Pronunciation
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Main accords

Spicy
Powdery
Sweet
Oriental
Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
CinnamonCinnamon Pink pepperPink pepper BergamotBergamot TagetesTagetes
Heart Notes Heart Notes
DavanaDavana Everlasting flowerEverlasting flower MyrrhMyrrh TuberoseTuberose
Base Notes Base Notes
AmbergrisAmbergris StyraxStyrax White muskWhite musk Gaiac woodGaiac wood

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
7.5447 Ratings
Longevity
7.9332 Ratings
Sillage
6.7320 Ratings
Bottle
8.2308 Ratings
Value for money
7.026 Ratings
Submitted by Lotus, last update on 18.02.2024.

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Camey5000

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Camey5000
Camey5000
Top Review 29  
My Amber Number 31

Balmain - Ambre Gris

Mystical. Sure
With white haze, finely cut green nudges us into the light. Accompanied by citric green, fine bergamot. And a warm, soft fairy scent, ethereally glittering, small fine woody, a light powder. And Balsam pushes light bell-like soap into the flickering light, everything bright, light, clean, warm, soft powdery, softly spicy, creamy. With pepper sparks over straw flowers and tuberoses, herbaceous floridity and fulfilling fragrant soft amber. A composition of greatest harmony. Discreet unobtrusiveness. A secret
In splendor, like the white expanse of the Arctic, clear, pure, iridescent. And like a bright dune landscape in an endless desert. Warm, soft, tactile, musky, benzoic. A cloud like delicate cinnamon and honey and styrax smoke and myrrh and wood of finest inlay.

The secret wears white. A golden ball as a noble, royal crown and a cloak of intoxicating bottle beauty, light and almost flying. Grey silk. White silk. Iridescent glass, shimmering magic
At night fairies draw an amber-coloured message into the coming day. A veil. A dream. A secret
Balmain - Ambre Gris.

10.0 / 9.0 / 7.0 / 10.0

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Amylovesyou

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Amylovesyou
Amylovesyou
Top Review 19  
P.S. I love you
...but it wasn't love at first sight. When we first met I was not ready to let anything new into my life. I loved the familiar... it gave me security, a constant in my life. You, on the other hand, were so full of life, so full of energy, so full of warmth that I was scared. You touched something inside me, but it wasn't time yet and so I sent you away...
You never got out of my head, fleeting encounters with you followed me more and more and I felt that something had changed in me. So I summed up all my courage and asked you to come to me. All that you had brought with you when we first met suddenly appeared in a completely different light. I could appreciate you, enjoy you...finally I understood you and now I can hardly imagine a life without you.
It shows me that everything takes time. Experiences, even bitter ones, let us grow. If you change, suddenly everything changes...
That's how it was between me and Ambre Gris. A fragrance that radiates enormous positivity.
It opens on my skin slightly citric and then develops a slightly woody ethereal aura. At the same time, however, a subliminal "honey-like" note prevails. Sweet but far from sticky. The scent begins to radiate. He develops a slight smokiness, the tuberose is good and shows itself from its best unfleshy side, so that also tuberose opponents should have no problems. Then his name giver shows itself in full splendour. Sometimes I have problems with Amber, he has something oily and heavy in some scents, but here you can't feel anything of it. Musk ensures that the scent does not become too dense and heavy. I smell cinnamon from the heart note to the base, but rather as a shy companion. Overall, I would classify the fragrance as woody-sweet-powdery.
The shelf life of the fragrance is about 10 hours and I feel it is strong but not roomy. A fragrance that fits perfectly into the colder months due to the warmth it radiates. The bottle is beautiful (I think the pictures speak for themselves) and looks high quality.
So away with the sobriety!

P.S. Ambre Gris, I love you!
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Floramalia

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Floramalia
Floramalia
Top Review 16  
Late summer memories
I spray Ambre Gris on a Saturday morning before I cycle to the bakery. It is one of those first mornings when melancholic minds feel a first whiff of autumn in the air.

The memory that Ambre Gris suddenly evokes at this moment beams me to France. A rural area, not directly at the sea, but in the hinterland, but close enough to the Atlantic coast to clearly feel the humid sea air. The sky is covered with these light grey clouds, loose enough to know it can be a beautiful day. I park my bike in front of the Boulangerie, someone has lit a Gauloise nearby and the light scent of the freshly lit cigarette reaches me.

I tested the scent on a somewhat cooler late summer morning and it fitted in very well there.

The freshness of bergamot and some flowers I can only guess briefly in the top note. In fact, the fragrance is very difficult to grasp at the beginning, I mean to break it down into components and analyze them. It should also be dosed sparingly. I actually felt a little overdressed at the suburban bakery, at eight in the morning with my Ambre Gris.

When the heart note comes out, I can briefly understand the impression of sweetness. Fortunately, this disappears quickly and after the fragrance goes through a short smoky phase, the texture calms down and the dry warmth and special spiciness, which I appreciate very much, comes through and then lasts very, very long. Due to the beautiful amber note, the fragrance for me actually has a sea air aura and the Atlantic association remains and provides a beautiful summer holiday memory.

Very nicely I perceive the smell remainders the next morning at the blouse.

I am already looking forward to wearing the fragrance in autumn and winter and am curious to see how it will look!
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Nordnase

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Nordnase
Nordnase
Very helpful Review 17  
Contenance in noble
If there is understated elegance, Ambre Gris is it.
For me.

How I had missed it, that fine, enchanting scent robe.
Now Ambre Gris is again part of my collection and I am very happy about it.

It is a quiet and almost timid candidate, proudly wearing a golden dome in a dignified grey glass bottle. Gray-silver fragrance melodies tucked away in purist-beautiful simplicity.

With this fragrance I associate silk and its noble soundlessness, soft and unnoticed it lies on the skin and yet is present. It warms and cools at the same time, but you must not pull or tug it, that destroys the overall structure of the delicate fabric.

The gray amber in its filigree form is suitable for quiet and introspective days, it is balm for the soul and nose! In the silence of its fragrance power lies the infinite power.

He starts in the fragrance pyramid with shy, citrus nuances, quite incidentally join floral myrrh, tuberose and green grasses. They mingle exhilaratingly and float through the spheres. White-grey threads flow by, infinitely distinguished amber notes follow with powder musk and light woods. They end the fragrance round, I have rarely experienced such a balanced ensemble of components. Unagitated, creamy-decent, lovely and woody.

Quietly and peacefully he stands there, my gray eminence, the angular and the round fit together just well.

With this realization, I conclude my today's short review and create for Ambre Gris again the place in my collection, which he deserves - at the top - for the quiet companion.

"One sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Mantus

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Mantus
Mantus
Top Review 13  
Irresistible seductive femininity
First, you can perceive an invigorating note that brings something awakening and is due to the pink pepper.

At the same time, the pink pepper is accompanied by a refreshing, fine citric, quite discreetly herbaceous note, which carries something very minimal soapy with it, which I don't find disturbing at all, but pleasantly clean and soft lotion-like and comes from the bergamot
These two notes are surrounded by a strong sweet-spicy note, which gives the top note a nice deep flattering aura and comes from the cinnamon.

In the background, only directly on the skin, something interesting can be seen, which for me has an idea of flavoured curry and saffron and I would never have come across Tagetes.

This constellation is perceptible on my skin for 20 minutes before the heart note unfolds.

A slight rum-like note is now perceptible, but it doesn't seem alcoholic at all and exudes a very fine touch of plums and black cherries and the Internet told me that this fragrance characteristic is due to Davana.

At the same time, there is a very subtle resinous - bitter hint, which gives the fragrance a pleasant accent and comes from the myrrh.

These two notes are surrounded by a light, yet opulent sweet-floral and dark forest honey scented nuance that makes the fragrance irresistibly seductive feminine and it is worth mentioning that the lotion-like aura in the heart note has turned into a fine creamy one and I can very well imagine that this is due to tuberose in interaction with the strawflower.

The heart note is perceptible on my skin for 4.5 hours before the base asserts itself.

Now you can perceive a very delicate rosy breath, which has a very fine woody appearance and is due to the guaiac wood.

The guaiac wood is accompanied by a clear, very slightly sweet - powdery shade, which gives the base a beautiful cuddly touch and comes from the white musk.

These two notes are surrounded by a very subtle balsamic nuance, which provides a pleasant warm finish and comes from the ambergris.

Unfortunately I could not see Styrax, but I can very well imagine that this component was used for background music.

Ambre Gris is a great companion in the spring, autumn and winter months for women aged 25 and over who are looking for a citric, creamy, sweet, fruity, rummy, bitter, flowery, woody, powdery and balsamic fragrance to give their femininity a seductive irresistibility.

In total the fragrance lasts 8 hours on my skin.

The Sillage is designed from the beginning in such a way that one is perceived very well at a whole arm length and this is also maintained 3.5 hours in such a way, before it minimizes itself in quiet steps, until the smell finally completely fades away
I would like to express my sincere thanks to our perfume "Cocinera" for the sample.
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CumulnimbusCumulnimbus 2 years ago
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7.5
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Perfect combo of ambergris spices and dry everlasting flowers. This is a wonderful classy scent for everyday use. Discontinued :( but why?
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