Note
Amber
Amber in perfumery is a blend suggesting warm resins, vanilla, and softly sweet balsams, rather than the smell of fossilized amber. It usually anchors the base and rounds out woods, spices, and flowers.
In 1,148 perfumes. Usually found in the drydown.
- Opening
- 4%
- Heart
- 26%
- Drydown
- 70%
Most popular with amber
The best-known perfumes carrying it anywhere in the pyramid.
Often paired with
Notes that show up next to amber more often than chance would predict.
How it reads
Sweet and woody above all. Reaches for amber and balsamic far more often than the catalogue as a whole.
- sweet
- woody
- amber
- citrus
- vanilla
- balsamic
- musky
- fruity