Alba Profumum Roma 2004

... not a love triangle, because Alba has no corners.

Amber, almond tree, sandalwood.
With Alba, it’s exclusively about these three.

Amber and sandalwood are indeed particularly suited for pairings due to their fundamental scent direction. Warm, dark, sweet, one being woody, the other porous and bodily.

But no, alas, nothing can come of them, as both are exceptionally strong characters. They are excellent for giving weight to other scent combos in the base and also like to be dominant and distinctive as main notes... but together? Two classic rounding notes with hefty solo potential meeting each other. That they get along, harmonize rather than compete, and that they produce something common is unlikely.
Yet it is a Ménage à trois - there is another note: almond tree.

What is "almond tree"? Why is it not called "almond wood" when referring to the wood of the almond tree? Or is something holistic meant? A kind of overall impression of wood, leaf, blossom, and nut fruit?
It indeed seems to be about something like that, and therefore the name "almond tree" is completely appropriate. This is written by an expert who should know! *g* I come from the Hessian Bergstraße. I grew up where every year the unofficial start of spring is determined by the blooming almond trees. You don’t have to travel to Italy to find out that almond trees have a strangely delicate and soft scent in their overall smell (wood + foliage) and that the sweetness and typical almond scent can already be faintly smelled... not just when the fruit is harvested and roasted.

This third partner, bringing an immense delicacy, mediates between the other two notes, creating a true accord, a perfectly blended triad:
Alba is supersupersuper soft, enormously gentle and tender, a bit powdery, very "dry" in appearance, sweet but appearing very natural, never squeaky. Contrary to expectations, there is no warmth - on the contrary, the scent feels slightly cool. It is also peculiarly "clean," without becoming fresh.
"Alba" (Latin for white) thus becomes a very fitting name, without the perfume being a white floral scent.
This fragrance is distinct and characteristic, but not very extroverted. Almost a skin scent with its closeness to the skin and bodily sweet appearance. Neither amber nor sandalwood makes its stamp too prominently.

Alba's soft blowing now beautifully brings gentle scent caresses to my skin thanks to Joley (bottling) and Inala (FS-sharing). Thank you!