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Per Fumum: Ambar Annette Neuffer 2018

8.5 / 10 104 Ratings

A popular perfume by Annette Neuffer for women and men, released in 2018. The scent is spicy-resinous. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Spicy

Resinous

Smoky

Oriental

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Bitter orange Ginger

Ginger

Bergamot

Cardamom

Heart Notes

Tobacco absolute Jasmine

Jasmine

Rose

Iris

Base Notes

Labdanum

Ambergris

Fossilized himalayan amber

Indian sandalwood

Patchouli

Vietnamese oud Vetiver

Vetiver

Perfumer

Annette Neuffer

Ratings

Scent

8.5104 Ratings

Longevity

8.492 Ratings

Sillage

7.791 Ratings

Bottle

8.583 Ratings

Value for money

6.429 Ratings

Submitted by Centifolia, last update on 08/14/2025.

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What the fragrance is similar to

Calling all Angels

Maroquin

Ambra Al Hambra

Ambra

Attar Oud Monarch

Fumoir des Anges

Reviews

5 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/07/2019

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Can777
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Can777

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Light Refraction

Amber is the highest and noblest form of animal essences. In the language of perfumers, it is considered feminine. It is extremely sensual, erotic, and profoundly abyssal. A scent that penetrates deep into everyone's soul and spreads there like the sea itself from which it came. It pulls you down into the darkness, to where no light shines and no sound can be heard. Annette Neuffer has taken on this royal class of animal notes. To be more precise, the gray amber.

Per Fumum: Ambar
Ambar begins spicy and delicately sweet with cardamom. Light citrus accords resonate alongside. A slightly bitter orange and a lightly sharp-spicy ginger bring a bit of light at the start. The top note still feels like a friendly smile, but that soon fades. It diminishes and becomes more serious, allowing an incredibly beautiful tobacco note to unfold. Not too dry, but rather moist-warm in the aura. As if you were crushing the leaves between your hands. This moist and spicy-warm scent runs through the perfume like a warm current in the sea until you are drawn deep down into the most sensual depths of the resins. Soft and creamiest amber merges with the finest smoked oud and dry notes of amber. Cistus, with its balsamic scent, acts here like a weave of corals that covers everything and holds it together. Accords of earthy vetiver and patchouli further darken it and rob it of the last bit of light. Per Fumum: Ambar has become the darkest, most sensual, and profound silence. The erotic melancholy of darkness!

Conclusion
Once I asked Annette Neuffer what would happen if she surrendered to darkness and created a scent that reveals her dark side? A perfume that accompanies the deepest, animalistic desires and the most beautiful, erotic darkness. A perfume that is completely different from all that came before. A perfume that embodies the darkest, most sensual eroticism. What would happen if she did it?

This has happened,... she has done it! And she has done it in a way that only she can. She has broken the light until it became a black diamond. A diamond that has become so dark that it needs no light to shine because it can do so from within. Per Fumum: Ambar is the deepest abyss in Annette Neuffer's entire collection. A sensual beauty from darkness. And if I didn't know better, I would say Per Fumum: Ambar is made just for me. But maybe it is? Who knows!

Unique!

11/10/2019

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Meggi
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Meggi

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Chamber Music Soundtrack

The symphonies of Anton Bruckner sound for the most part like the soundtrack to US foreign policy. Even when a conductor stands at the podium, whose urge for self-presentation may be below average, as I suspect of the elderly Günter Wand. He was actually already "done" with his career when he started a second, still 20-year-long (world) career in his advanced age in the early 80s, the beginning of which consisted of much-noted Bruckner recordings.

Bruckner lets the strings roll out a massive carpet that provides ample space for the thunderous parading of the brass. However, how wonderfully transparent and crystal clear the symphonies of the Austrian can sound is exemplified by the recordings of Sergiu Celibidache. The native Romanian was a rehearsal-obsessed and uncompromising orchestra educator of the old school, who made significant contributions to the musical youth, not least - following in the footsteps of Leonard Bernstein - for the youth orchestra of the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. I remember reports from young musicians who had experienced both conductors and sketched the difference as follows: "Bernstein just looks at you and you play like never before in your life!". Working with Celibidache, on the other hand, was said to be hard and laborious, but with a noticeable sustainability.

The maestro always despised the record, considering only the performance to be the right framework. Nevertheless, some of it has found its way into shelves and archives, partly not entirely legally. The following passage from Bruckner's 6th Symphony shows what I mean by transparency and clarity within Bruckner's opulence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gNKadsHff4 - from 15:10 min.

At first, I hesitated to use the term "crystal clear," because now, when bridging to the fragrance, it will inevitably evoke a completely false association with bright coldness - and 'Per Fumum: Ambar' is certainly not bright cold, rather the exact opposite. I just want to point out that Ms. Neuffer today once again demonstrates how tenderly and delicately aromas can play around each other, which otherwise often indulge in late Romantic opulence (which I, by the way, have nothing against per se).

While I still smell spiced tea with a splash of liqueur when sniffing the tester and immediately think of cough drops right after spraying, that rumbling does not take long to appear, with which Neuffer fragrances like to open: waxy-rough and scratchy at the threshold of the ham-like, it starts off, quickly already adorned with subtle fruity sweetness. Perhaps fruity rose. Also candied orange. A pinch of spiciness makes ginger plausible.

Gently, a latent animalic note spreads, which I would not have recognized as amber without knowing the name, but it must be. It remains in the background, creamy and softly fertilized. Cumarin sprinkles, very gently, undoubtedly from the tobacco absolute. Other aspects of tobacco are also present: tarry, spicy-bitter, reminding me of Malbrum's "Bengal Tiger" - and of the excellent 'Maroquin' from the same house. Additionally, there is a subtly medicinal, only minimally cheesy-cowstable, rather woody oud, all framed by sugary-glassy amber; I believe it is copal.

And as so often with Neuffer fragrances, all these ingredients can be quite well identified. I have often suspected that the richness of aromas from natural fragrance materials allows for a limitation to a comparatively small number of ingredients and that therefore the gain in transparency - or indeed clarity - may stem from this, without the result becoming fragile and thin, as I unfortunately perceive with one or the other Ellena.

From late morning on, 'Ambar' shows its kinship to another sibling: Today it is somewhat less sweet and warm than 'Ambra Luminosa', here it is creamier, whiter, the resinous aspect of the resin is a touch. Nevertheless, 'Ambar' also radiates a honey-sweet-smoky warmth, even with a delicate hint of Christmas baking. It is somewhat "labdanum-liqueur-like" and in the course (the perfumer writes it herself) dustier. An exquisite counterpart is the persistent contribution of bitter tobacco.

In general, the same applies as with many Neuffers: The fragrance notes do not offer a clear sequence in the sense of a succession, but rather shift their weight shares throughout the day, a contrapuntal coexistence of various, more or less equal voices.

Conclusion: Amber? I primarily perceive 'Ambar' as an amber-oud fragrance. I confess that I - I express myself cautiously - smell almost nothing that I have previously associated with amber. Only a creamy base mood, which practically runs through the entire course and which is likely due to the probably (for obvious reasons) sparingly dosed preciousness. On my own, I probably would not have been able to identify the amber.

Nevertheless, I like 'Ambar' extraordinarily well, although it cannot dethrone my Neuffer favorite 'Maroquin'.

01/15/2019

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SchatzSucher
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The Warm Glow in the Darkness

I once heard someone say: The night is actually just like the day, only there isn’t as much light. And in a way, that person was right, even if it was said with a wink.
This can almost be transferred to this fragrance, as it skillfully plays with light and darkness.

Those who know me a bit here also know that I have some pronounced dislikes when it comes to fragrances. Especially when certain fragrance components are too abundant, when it becomes overloaded, and the scent veers into the territory of being a penetrating monster.
I almost scream and flee when a fragrance comes across as too strictly animalistic, smelling perhaps of a stable or a complete wildlife park, or I wrinkle my nose at too much leather, always associating it with an old, worn-out bag. Oud is often a red flag for me as well; if it smells strongly of dung or disinfectant, I vanish in a cloud of dust on the horizon.
Of course, these are just my personal feelings. And yet, I keep finding that there are exceptions! Well, isn’t that something? Looking beyond one’s own plate is indeed worthwhile. And what do I care about my ramblings from days gone by.

Normally, I also take my time commenting on fragrances, and one can really get into trouble if one hits a wrong nerve or hasn’t gotten to know a fragrance well enough and presents false facts.

But here, I’m making an exception because this fragrance has told me a lot, and I have listened.
Recently, I came across a sample of Ms. Neuffer’s latest creation.
The name sounded somewhat familiar to me from mentions here, but the fragrances, with the exception of one that I tested recently and unfortunately did not like, were completely unknown to me.
So, I curiously tried Per Fumum: Ambar, and what can I say: I find it fantastic!
It combines several fragrance components that I actually don’t like at all in a highly appealing way. I recognize depth, I recognize darkness, I recognize a lot of bitterness, I recognize the living being that gives the fragrance a soul, I recognize warmth and a radiance that speaks to me from the deepest inside.
When I explore the component on which Ambar is based, it is that animalistic fragrance element that seems most accessible to me. The amber, which often lends its warm and golden heart to classic chypre fragrances, is the animalistic component that I find most sympathetic and does not deter me in fragrances as much as other animalistic substances.

Ambar initially opens with a herbal sweetness and warm spiciness; it still feels quite bright at the beginning, but the dark direction can already be well recognized.
Quickly, smoky notes of tobacco come in, ensuring that the fragrance does not become too sweet, and it increasingly darkens. I can hardly detect floral notes, which is good; I believe that would have been somewhat disturbing. And here, only the bitter extracts have been used, as the rather light sweetness is no longer present.
Associations of a warming campfire late at night by the sea arise within me. Yes, there’s also a slight sea breeze that enhances this hint of the ocean.
Towards the base, amber, patchouli, a hint of oud, and a dab of labdanum underscore the dark, bitter yet warming character. The burning wood is of noble nature and serves as a fixed point in the dark surroundings.

However, Ambar does not really seem dark to me. And the fragrance is not loud by nature; it is present, it is perceived, but it does not overwhelm, it is not a primal force.
For me, it is the warm glow that brightens a dark night. The fragrance is bitter and smoky, yet it is not harsh and biting, but rather envelops protectively. The living being in its soul has a warm heart and softens the fragrance.
It lasts on me for about 8 hours before it gently slips back into the darkness.

For me personally, Per Fumum: Ambar is a truly successful fragrance that pleasantly surprises me and is really very wearable. For me, it fits best for very special occasions in the evening, and in this cold and rather uncomfortable season, it shines excellently.

My heartfelt thanks go to the lovely 0815abc, who made it possible for me to get to know and appreciate this jewel!

03/09/2021

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Camey5000
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My Amber No. 106

My Amber No. 106

The day fled into the night. With Per Fumum Ambar. It is an amber like the night, and the night is brown and the scent is heavy. And heavy hangs an animalistic cloud far above the meadow. Far above oily sand, over soaked clay, over the humus of the earth. You smell Ballistol. You smell dried labdanum and dominating oud. You sense dull-smelling rubber. Green vetiver, hiding with roses, at the base.

A lizard seeks its path in the branches of bergamot, surrounded by dull, decayed wood and tobacco, crawling over powerful shavings, over dark wood, over old, bitter oranges and deep oud. Into cellar-like vaults. Into the corners of darkness.

Lethargic like a swell, a lonely wave approaches. With the ancient sound of distant tides. It flows in and out again, into heights for the swinging soul, into depths for tamed passion. Amber, labdanum, and tobacco in harmony. No amber from the tree, no sweet styrax, no copal from Punt. No, Ambar, a secret captured by Annette Neuffer.

An essence with raindrops and promises. Until the early morning. Above it hovers an oil film. Slightly sweet, slightly caramel-like, creamy heavy. And everything dull in muted mangrove. In this stillness, there is no uplift, no flight to the firmament. No bright smoke rising to the sky. This night lingers long, and only slowly does the dawn break over the horizon.

And the cloud dissipates with the dreams.

D 8.0 / HK 9.0 / SI 8.0 /

01/24/2022

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Josefina
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This is what pure joy looks like

Dark honey is very much in demand in our country. What a surprise it is when I unpack another perfume bottle from Annette Neuffer. This color! It perfectly matches the darkness of the highest quality forest honey.
Aaaach! I dare not break down what I feel into the individual ingredients - everyone can see them in the perfume description - but what the scent evokes in me is what matters.
Twilight in an armchair on the terrace of our house… I enjoy the delicate rose scent that surrounds our entire garden. After a while, my husband comes to me and brings us a teapot of ginger tea with a few orange slices on a plate. He fills the cups with yellow liquid and lights his pipe with my favorite tobacco. I inhale the scent of tobacco and also his perfume with high-quality amber in deep breaths. The wind blows and brings rose petals into my lap, contributing to the overall well-being. Idyllic :)
AMBAR. One of the many AN fragrances that delight me with similar fantasies. And they sometimes make exhausting days happier because they are not really “gloomy” at all. AN perfumes match the quality of dark forest honey.