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Amber Intrigue Tom Ford 2024

8.0 / 10 49 Ratings

A popular perfume by Tom Ford for women and men, released in 2024. The scent is spicy-sweet. The longevity is above-average. It is being marketed by Estēe Lauder Companies.
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Main accords

Spicy

Sweet

Smoky

Woody

Fruity

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Cinnamon

Date

Frankincense

Heart Notes

Sandalwood

Haitian vetiver

Base Notes

Amber

Labdanum

Perfumers

Pascal Gaurin, Julien Rasquinet

Ratings

Scent

8.049 Ratings

Longevity

8.343 Ratings

Sillage

8.044 Ratings

Bottle

7.950 Ratings

Value for money

5.736 Ratings

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Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

09/04/2025

7Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Landshark321
751 Reviews

Landshark321

1

Nice resinous offering with spices and dried fruit, albeit not terribly special.

Sampling Tom Ford Amber Intrigue, a 2024 Private Blend line release that is exclusive to Harrods in the UK, which fittingly has a resinous component but should not be confused with Amber Absolute, for example, as respects the amber dominance, depth, and uniqueness. Amber Intrigue has some spices and dried fruits that, for me, conjure an outdoor market, while also having a medium-bodied resinous center that’s a little smoky, a little creamy, and just the tiniest bit animalic in the background. The official note listing includes dates, olibanum, labdanum, sandalwood, and vetiver, which roughly tracks with my experience of the fragrance. In fairness, there’s not really anything else (that I know of) in the Private Blend collection that smells like this, and it’s different enough from the sweeter, darker, denser Amber Absolute that it merits a separate fragrance, but I simply don’t see it as interesting as AA or even Myrrhe Mystere, the more recent resin-focused release from 2023.

The price on the Harrods website is $400 for 50ml, more or less typical of the higher end of pricing in the US for the Private Blend line. Setting aside tariffs, it’s fairly pricey at retail.

Overall, I’m happy to try this out but am not especially moved by it. It’s good but not great, which is generally fine, except for products in higher-priced lines.

7 out of 10

02/15/2025

9Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

Elysium
907 Reviews

Elysium

3

Fingers Of Light

I imagine a room with a beam of dusty light coming in from the window and illuminating a table on which there is a large sandalwood bowl. The inside of the bowl has been sprinkled with a layer of silver incense and gold benzoin grains, and on top have been placed large fresh rape palm fruits, juicy and pulpy dates of the Deglet Noor variety. The air in the room, warmed by the sun, is filled with sweet, boozy, resinous, smoky nuances. Fingers of light embrace and caress everything. That is how I imagine this perfume.

Amber Intrigue is a dynamic scent that starts with fruity and spicy nuances, touches a warm woody heart and culminates with a powdery amber trail. It can be unpleasant if you overdo it with the spray or smell it up close too soon, as happened to me. Otherwise, it opens with a deep note of dark dates, complemented by spicy and smoky accords. For a short while, the mix of the alcohol and spices gives a boozy accord akin to the Kraken Black Spiced rum. You might be surprised, as I was, by how realistic the date scent is. I expected a hint of citrus as an introduction, but it starts right away with saccharine and dense notes of date pulp, dark, sticky and opulent. The taste of a Deglet Noor date is similar to brown butter and has a very nutty finish. Maybe it is overly sweet, syrupy, cloying, or a date jam, but I am not sure if it is my cup of tea. But I let this sugary jubilation settle down and slowly something magical happens. First, I smell something reminiscent of Big Babol gum, thick, gooey. Then, a smoky and resinous accord accompanied by a warm spicy accord bursts in and invades the sweetness with an army of cinnamon bark and golden grains of olibanum. The date does not give up, but takes a back seat, leaving only its fruity side to be perceived. The more the perfume grows, the more I feel that I like it. It’s like a video game where you have to pass the first stealthy level, after which it becomes intriguing at each subsequent level, revealing secrets, hidden doors and pitfalls. So, a first level that offers a sweet and spicy opening.

It takes a good hour for the heart to open up and let the woody tones of vetiver and sandalwood emerge. Now on the skin, there is a creamy mix, at times earthy but mostly powdery thanks to the addition of violet leaves. Overall, it remains smooth, the date is still distinguishable, and the powderiness is not comparable to talcum powder. And the incense, which is now alight and burning, spreading its smoky notes over all the other notes of the choir. Thus, the middle stage is all about woody and warm whispers.

The fragrance fades and ends with a rich amber accord. It is not the salty ambroxan that has been overused in recent years and we found in "Erba Pura | XerJoff" for instance, but a vivid brown amber accord courtesy of vanilla to create dustiness, tree resins such as frankincense, myrrh and benzoin to add smokiness and musk to balance with softness. Those notes add a kind of intimacy and sensuality to perfumes and pair well with spicy and woody notes that give dark but soft powdery facets to the composition. When smelled close to the skin, it releases balsamic and smoky nuances.

Overall, it is much more than a classic amber fragrance, which stands out for its weighty character on glues such as dates and resins. Despite the explosive opening, the perfume then takes a calmer turn, with exceptional longevity I would say, remaining on the skin and clothes for many hours. It is still an intimate perfume, which does not fill the spaces while making itself noticed. I like to wear and smell it during the day, on relaxing weekend days, but its placement is that of elegant evening events in the colder months thanks to the warm, resinous and spicy accords. I like to say that I have a few fragrances featuring dates, but none of them are as heavy as this accord, and perhaps that is what makes it unique for me.

This feeling comes from a bottle I've owned since January 2025.

-Elysium

01/02/2025

7Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

loewenherz
919 Reviews

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Helpful Review 14

Never After Knut

Now the Christmas season is coming to an end. Or rather, in my case, it has long since ended, because as much as I enjoy playing Feliz Navidad in November and setting up my annual Annick Goutal Une Forêt d'Or candle - I really don’t want to see any of it after December 27th. There have even been years when I tossed all the stuff out on the 26th. The Swedes traditionally dispose of their Christmas tree on Knut (that's twenty days after Christmas, and the throwing-out-the-window part is just a legend). I could never wait that long, but on the other hand, it should be worth it with everything.

To be 'worth it' in the sense of 'getting something substantial for your money' applies to Amber Intrigue as well, which Tom Ford just managed to launch in time for the Christmas shopping season (although I haven't seen it widely in local stores yet). The approach of thinking that an expensive fragrance must have impact and performance is, as is well known, foreign to me. I believe that a high-priced fragrance can and should be quiet and subtle, if it is a beautiful 'subtle and quiet.' However, here there is nothing subtle and quiet, and those who love Christmas and its scents and Tom Ford's 'a lot of everything' will likely be thrilled here.

I am indeed a fan of seasonal fragrances, and I own explicit summer and winter perfumes. However, to focus so pointedly on a limited season seems a bit 'de trop.' Amber Intrigue plays so much with the scent notes of Christmas - roaring fireplace, buttery pastries, and other sweets much more than oriental and desert accords, as date and amber suggest - which is a shame because Tom Ford can do desert - that the thought of wearing it outside of the Christmas season feels difficult. And it smells like Christmas anyway - do we really need a similarly scented perfume for that?

Conclusion: here you really get something for your money, if that’s what you want. No less than rich Christmas opulence in a pretty bottle. And nothing more.