See Prices

More

We may earn a commission when you buy from links on our site, including the eBay Partner Network and Amazon.

Fiore d'Ambra Profumum Roma 2004

7.4 / 10 224 Ratings

A perfume by Profumum Roma for women and men, released in 2004. The scent is spicy-oriental. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
Pronunciation Compare

More

We may earn a commission when you buy from links on our site, including the eBay Partner Network and Amazon.

Main accords

Spicy

Oriental

Sweet

Animal

Resinous

Fragrance Notes

Amber

Opium poppy Spices

Spices

Ratings

Scent

7.4224 Ratings

Longevity

8.4172 Ratings

Sillage

7.5163 Ratings

Bottle

7.6161 Ratings

Value for money

6.540 Ratings

Submitted by Hermessenz, last update on 08/28/2025.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Opium (1977) Parfum

Ambra Nera

Café

10 Aomassaï

Les Nombres d'Or - Ambre

Ambre Russe

Reviews

14 in-depth fragrance descriptions

07/27/2024

8.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

LastWonder
484 Reviews

LastWonder

1

Cola Poppies

This is Dorothy from Wizard of Oz, drinking a Mexican Coca-Cola while walking through the field of Poppies. These poppies are a little funky too, they are indolic almost borderline too funky but they stop a good distance away from fecal. The spice notes they use must contain some cinnamon, nutmeg, and vanilla because I can't get the image of a Mexican Coca-cola out of my head. This is a fragrance that I wouldn't think would be weird but it is while and it is still being very mass appealing.

This fragrance had a fairly good projection and the scent lasted on my skin for about 6 hours. A 100ml is €265 and a 18ml is €90.

06/10/2025

ClaireV
969 Reviews

ClaireV

1

Filthy sugared clove rock dipped in Coke

What I find disturbing about Fiore d’Ambra by Profumum Roma is that it is sweet and filthy in equal measure, like Youth Dew sprayed on a dirty crotch. Unlike Ambra Aurea, which is immediately pleasant, Fiore d’Ambra mouths off at you in three different languages at once and gives you little time to catch up. Best I can make out, the smell boils down to a particularly clovey stick of clove rock, sugar cubes soaked in antibiotics, and underneath, a stirring of some very unclean musks. The combination is suggestive of both the pleasures of the headshop (musk cubes, unlit incense, dust) and of the faintly sour-sweet breath of unwashed ladybits that must have risen like yeast every time Henry VIII lifted a lady’s gown.

I love it. I thumb my nose at anyone suggesting it is an amber, though. Names are powerful things, but smell this without thinking of the ‘amber’ in the title or the fact that it sits right next to a similarly-named fragrance (Ambra Aurea) in the Profumum Roma catalogue, and you begin to see that its feral poop-fur quality aligns it far more closely with scents like Muscs Khoublai Khan (Serge Lutens), L’Air de Rien (Miller Harris), and L’Ombre Fauve (Parfumerie Generale) than with stuff like Ambre Sultan (Serge Lutens) or even Ambra Aurea.

Fiore d’Ambra innovates. It doesn’t even really smell like amber to me, unless you count any sweet element at all – here a soda stream-Coca Cola syrupiness – as ‘amber’. The ‘opium’ element, which has traditionally been interpreted in perfumery by way of eugenol – a substance that is almost as verboten as opium itself these days – has probably been built with clove oil instead. But the perfumers didn’t even bother to lather it up into a soft froth with geranium or rose, so the clove note juts out of the topnotes like a sudden erection. The musks are sensual, but raw and unclean (a bit salty even), strangely reminiscent of the dry honey-toner-ink accord from M/Mink (Byredo).

The minute I smelled Fiore d’Ambra, I was reminded of the vials of Fleur Poudrée de Musc (Les Nereides) that the Conor McTeague (aka Jtd), my friend and the best fragrance writer in the world, sent to a group of perfume friends around the world in early 2015. I think he got enormous fun out of the collective recoil. It smelled like the most innocent of baby powders combined with the foulest of human shits, a merry middle finger to the frou-frou Botticelli angels and Ye Olde Italian Script of the brand itself. Conor wrote this of Fleur Poudrée de Musc: “Have you ever undressed somebody after a long day of winter sport, all those layers amplifying the scent of skin that’s sweated then dried multiple times? Remember that scent, then imagine some powder on top”. I don’t know if Conor ever smelled Fiore d’Ambra, but I like to think he might have described it in much the same way.

04/20/2025

7Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Myrtillajus
530 Reviews

Myrtillajus

1

A particular Amber

" Opium magnifies the things that have no limits,
extends the limitless,
deepens time,
delves into voluptuousness
And with black and dark pleasures
fills the soul beyond its capacity." -Baudelaire-
I am a lover of amber, which is interpreted here in a very special way, stripped of its resinousness and at times animalicity that I like so much, and made spicy, with aromas I had never heard, really unusual.
It appears as an indomitable, rebellious fragrance, almost belonging to a parallel world , which I really appreciated for its originality but which does not reflect my genre.
Definitely worth trying.
"The Opium Smoker" painted by Scorano.

02/14/2016

1.5Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

Ergreifend
254 Reviews

Translated · Show original

Ergreifend

Very helpful Review 21

I'll show you the middle finger!

And lay it flat on your face.
Just like these two clumsy sentences, Fiore d'Ambra is too.
Unpredictable, totally cheeky, and completely without manners.
It stinks. Oh how true! Even with a quick sniff from the sprayer, it delivers a deep kick to my gut. The smell of a polluted train station shot into my head. Old, groping men's hands that have never been washed assaulted my senses. A cheekily grinning skunk just letting one rip and dragging itself around like a snail. Can one like something like this? I don't - but there are fetishists in every field. This also applies to the topic of perfume. And it is also known - even repulsive things can attract you magically. In this case, only the name is legitimate.

I don't know which version I have, as I only possess a sample. But what has come under my nose here makes me delve deep within myself. - Searching for an axe to remove the creator from a dark corner. Unbelievable what is presented here as a scent!

It is simply disgusting with its filthy nature, which truly smells like stale urine and dead animals. The scent is warm, damp, and allows moths to penetrate deep into the fabrics. Old spices that have long lost their scent lie dull within the fragrance and are overwhelmed by the damp note. It then becomes a bit sweet. But it is a weak sweetness that adds even more drive to the animalistic urge.

I had to wipe it off today when I put it on again after a long time. Because no normal person can endure that. I also don't like having a middle finger in my face that moves like a windshield wiper and drives me completely crazy.

I really know a few stinkers and have had some bizarre scents under my nose. But this here! - One only self-destructs with it.

07/03/2022

7.5Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

Camey5000
105 Reviews

Translated · Show original

Camey5000

Top Review 21

My Amber No. 187

.
My Amber No. 187
.
At first, street dust, heavy, after long-sunken rain, matte green to matte brown. You find old dry leaves in the mix, some rose petals, some spice crumbs, and no clear amber. You find sluggish dust, dull and rich.
.
Later, a matte mélange amber unfolds. In bright black-brown. But you find no chiseling scent. It remains quite blunt. No sprightliness. Poppy seed (?). No lift-off.
.
But not as earthy dirty as Ambra Aurea. An amber caught between staying put and flying away, between Ambra Aurea and Balmain Ambergris.
.
And what remains is a beautiful, slightly woody, lasting amber scent.
.
7.0 to 7.5
.

More reviews