L'Eau d'Ambre Extrême L'Artisan Parfumeur 2001

L'Eau d'Ambre Extrême by L'Artisan Parfumeur

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L'Eau d'Ambre Extrême (L'Artisan Parfumeur)

7.7 / 10 224 Ratings

L'Eau d'Ambre Extrême is a popular perfume by L'Artisan Parfumeur for women and men and was released in 2001. The scent is spicy-sweet. The longevity is above-average. It is being marketed by Puig.
Pronunciation

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Main accords

Spicy

Sweet

Oriental

Woody

Resinous

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Mace

Nutmeg

Cardamom

Pepper

Heart Notes

Patchouli

Turkish rose

Base Notes

Benzoin

Tonka bean

Vanilla

Musk

Sandalwood

Perfumer

Jean-Claude Ellena

Ratings

Scent

7.7224 Ratings

Longevity

8.0182 Ratings

Sillage

7.3174 Ratings

Bottle

7.8174 Ratings

Value for money

7.030 Ratings

Submitted by CocoLeFay, last update on 17.03.2024.

Reviews

6 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/01/2024

9
Bottle 9
Sillage 9
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Can777
121 Reviews

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Can777

Top Review 48

Play for me,...forever!

And now I'm standing here with bare feet on the old, cold parquet floor of the conservatory. It is lit with dozens of burning candles. Under the soles of my bare feet, I can still feel the vibration of your cello flowing through the floor. Like a tender tickle, they conjure up memories. The ambivalence between laughter and sadness is almost unbearable. The peppery-bitter sweetness of the muscat flows through me. And I can see you drawing the bow in my mind's eye. So soulful, tender and warm, as if it were coated with rose oil and melancholy, earthy patchouli. It makes everything inside me vibrate. Just like... as if I were the sound box and not your cello. The stool in the corner where you once played is now empty, cold and dark. But I can still hear you. The deep, sad bass of the cello is probably immortalized in the woody, sweet parquet? It still flows through me, sad and so infinitely deep! Your need to leave has finally arrived. And so I let you go...! And now I sit here. Filled with sweet and resinous-spicy tears of soft, vulnerable-creamy benzoin and dusty-dry vanilla. All the notes you once played can be heard in this room. I know...only audible to me like the sweet-bitter pain of powdery-soft amber dust. Carried on tenderly soft musk and dusty memories. The notes fly and resound. Still in my head. Filled in endless, beautiful emptiness! Play your cello for me.
Play for me,...forever!

Conclusion
No,...there is no big conclusion! There is no explanation here today. Here it is taken as it is. A perfume like an old, lost melody. Consisting of full-bodied, bitter-sweet notes and deepest melancholy. Here the notes of emotion are so artfully guided and played with such deep sadness. Here the bow is guided on the soul. And so it begins to vibrate and sigh like a cello. This perfume makes extinguished hearts beat. Even if it is only mine! A perfume that opens up wounds and closes them at the same time. Glued and glued with spicy resins and sweet wood dust. Sad as a farewell and beautiful as a reunion. Made to unite happiness and sadness. However it will turn out for everyone? It can only end well. That much can already be said. Beautiful! And for me still one of L'Artisan's deepest and most emotional fragrances.
And probably forever!

Music is the divine way to tell the heart beautiful, poetic things.
It's the same with perfume...!

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04/22/2020

8
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Camey5000
81 Reviews

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Camey5000

Top Review 19

My Amber No. 29

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L'Artisan Parfumeur - L'Eau d'Ambre Extrême

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...an Amber who doesn't want to be an Amber. Different. No. Extrême. He read the report on Serge Lutens, Ambre Sultan, and decided, so can I. And got himself transferred to a permanent moist green rain forest. Mixed deciduous forest. Rain. Rain. Rain.

It's all green. Parallel green. Only green: gooseberries. Green only: nettles. Downcast brown and green ferns, with pepper trickles, nutmeg undersides. And everything is slippery green. Old foliage among old exotic plants. Lots of mould under foliage. Soap bubbles from hidden springs. Soap which smells pathoulisch and casually like rose, with vanilla accompaniment
Cardamom seems to grow around us, even sandalwood dries out of the undergrowth, mouson lavender quickly hides again and leaves room for the emerging benzoin and a light moufflon musk. Here it becomes now a spar amber. Dark brown amber that becomes lighter and brighter. And the soap accompanies us into the passing hours.

...an amber who wants to be a heavy, green amber. Nothing is particularly cozy, nothing is particularly soft, nothing is like a resting pillow. Nothing is like Christmas. This Amber challenges and awakens the spirits to individuality. For comment.

...Extrême.
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7.5 / 7.0 / 7.0 / ---

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02/05/2021

7
Pricing 8
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Vrabec
61 Reviews

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Vrabec

Helpful Review 10

En Voyage chez l'Artisan Parfumeur: 12 L'Eau d'Ambre Extrême - Spicy phalanx around cuddly ambergris

Actually, as an admirer of Jean-Claude Ellena, whose other works speak for themselves, as well as the house of l'Artisan Parfumeur, I had the L'Eau d'Ambre from 1978 on my list. This was one of the first perfumes from the house and company founder Jean Laporte himself probably still had his fingers in the pie. However, this showed up too faintly on my skin for me to have included this one on my list, which is why my eyes wandered towards the Extrême version.
While the normal l'Eau d'Ambre is just above the perceptual limit, this one performs quite well, which can not always be said for the perfumes of l'Artisan.
However, it is not a more "extreme" version of the former but a completely new perfume.
L'Eau d'Ambre smells of cozy spices, soft amber, slightly vanilla but not too sweet.

In the Extreme version, the top notes are very much in the spotlight, especially cardamom goes here very forward. Since I seem to have to go through, cardamom in perfumes I can simply not off. Thankfully after around 20 minutes this settles down to a tolerable base and a spicy spice accord, which is supposed to represent the amber rises. This one smells exactly how I like it, warm, familiar, kind of like a golden warmth. However, this amber scent is noticeably more prickly than others, noticeably more dogged. Pepper and nutmeg provide piquant spikes that arrange themselves like a phalanx around the scent's core. This makes for an intrigued re-smell; you want to perk up your ears rather than run towards it with eyes closed, arms outstretched and a blissfully infantile smile. I smelled something similar with Lutens Ambre Sultan, though that one stuck in my mind as much more chocolatey.
The esteemed Parfumo and Amberexperte Camey5000 smelled here a green amber, this I can only confirm for the top note, with me, however, the green inkling disappears with the disappearance of cardamom. What remains is green plant juice, which loses its chlorophyll with the herunterabtropfen richung base and becomes darker and more aromatic discolored.
Towards the base I smell almost mild leather, gentle Animalik also plays a role, even if it is rather subordinate to the spicy main players.
Who would like to get an oriental amber fragrance, who perhaps also Ambre Sultan, but the typical "Lutens note" avoid, should test the here. In my opinion, quite unisex, requires women perhaps a little more courage, but ultimately works just as well. As long as it has not yet exceeded 20 degrees outside, I can recommend this very much, even if Lutens' clearly better projects and also holds out.

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01/20/2012

7.5
Bottle 7.5
Sillage 7.5
Longevity 6
Scent

Sherapop
1239 Reviews

Sherapop

Helpful Review 2

Amber Unadorned

AMBER UNADORNED might be a better name for AMBRE EXTREME, but I will say that this AP composition does have slightly better longevity than the typical offerings of this house. The problem with presenting a base such as amber with few other notes as embellishments is that there is a very real risk of boredom. To me, AMBRE EXTREME seems a bit like amber on sedatives: polite and calm.

The amber in this composition smells smooth, slightly sweet, and generally pleasant, but it leaves me wanting something more. I learned from reading a page from Ellena's forthcoming book (using the "look inside" app. at amazon) that vanillin generally features in labdanum amber (not animalic ambergris...) constructions, which would seem to imply that it does not add anything to this creation, in particular, beyond what already counts as a part of the amber itself.

Having worn AMBRE EXTREME for a while this evening, long enough to grasp that it was indeed a minimalist creation without any of the distractions which tend to make oriental perfumes so interesting, I reached for my bottle of BAL A VERSAILLES, with which it was of course fully compatible, being essentially part of the base of that perfume.

I am sure that this fragrance has its following, but as far as amber perfumes are concerned, I myself am more of a Serge Lutens AMBRE SULTAN or Histoires de Parfums AMBRE 114 type. If asked to select a J-C Ellena amber, I would definitely opt for Hermès AMBRE NARGUILE, which seems to me considerably more appealing than this one.

01/26/2016

BrianBuchanan
355 Reviews

BrianBuchanan

Helpful Review 1

Rose-Water Amber

The first thing you notice is the metallic tang. tea trays and coffee pots shining in the warm light of brass lamps. Combined with a rosy accord (could there be damascones lighting up the profile here?) and notes that suggest Rahat Loukhoum - Turkish Delight, almond pastries and a juicy rosewater, you have the hospitalities of an Arab boudoir.

The other thing is the antique character of L'Eau d'Ambre Extrême, it smells old fashioned - and this feels like an homage to perfume of the early 20th century. It's an impressive achievement - to recreate the atmosphere of a pre-modern perfume using 21st century materials.

The name Amber Water captures the brilliance of the juice; its an Eau with the feel of a heavy Amber construction. And surely, a watery Amber is an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms. Ambers are not watery by nature, so why bother, why not do an amber pure and simple?
Isn't this just perfume pyrotechnics?

Well, it is technically adept, two genres fused into an Amber - Eau rose hybrid, so it's not a compromise on that score.
But when you strip away the clever conceits: the Arabian Nights atmosphere, the metallic trickery, the gourmand notes, the homage to pioneering perfumes, what's left? Does it stand as a perfume on its own terms? ... does it pass the Guy Robert test ' a perfume should above all smell good'?

Absolutely yes. It overcomes all my doubts. It's a rose water Amber that smells good, and has interesting subtleties that go beyond what could be expected from the average Amber.

The usual questions of longevity that hang over an Ellena juice can be overcome by spraying under - or on - clothing. This maintains the liquid beauty of the rose far longer than on skin, where it much sooner hurries down to the dusty floral conclusion. Development is a bit static but at heart it's an Amber - so no fault there.

Ultimately this is a solidly enjoyable outing which articulates a novel idea. At the same time it can be simply enjoyed at a surface level as a nice pong.

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