Ambre Safrano bdk Parfums 2022

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7.1 / 10 134 Ratings

A perfume by bdk Parfums for women and men, released in 2022. The scent is spicy-leathery. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.

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Main accords

Spicy

Leathery

Smoky

Sweet

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Saffron

Plum

Madagascan pepper

Heart Notes

Black leather

Frankincense absolute

Turkish rose absolute

Base Notes

French oak wood

Bourbon vanilla CO2

New Caledonian sandalwood

Perfumer

Julien Rasquinet

Ratings

Scent

7.1134 Ratings

Longevity

8.0120 Ratings

Sillage

7.5117 Ratings

Bottle

7.9119 Ratings

Value for money

6.781 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone, last update on 03/16/2025.

Interesting Facts

This fragrance was created for Harrods.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

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Reviews

9 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/06/2023

Mlleghoul
422 Reviews

Mlleghoul

5

a cotton candy plastic fruit bowl of a bad poem

I am testing BDK’s Ambre Safrano and thinking of a collection of contemporary poetry that I’ve been reading. I’m making this connection because it’s really bad poetry. And I am now 0/2 with the samples that I have tried from BDK Parfums. Now I realize both poetry and perfume and all forms of art are intensely subjective, and what’s considered “bad” in terms of any of it can have a lot to do with personal preference. Ambre Saffano is meant to take us on a faraway olfactory journey, but I think they’ve vastly overestimated the distance this scent has the capability of encompassing because the places that it shows us seem pretty limited.. It goes as far as your laptop screen or the phone, a few inches from your face, as it’s the olfactory equivalent of fanfiction without a single measure of spice, none of the characters have any chemistry, and the writing is weirdly overwrought for a story with absolutely no plot, and then you take that uninspired mess and run it through some sort of poetry generator, and you end up a word salad that somehow manages to be nonsensical and boring and not only are you not enjoying it, it’s actually giving you a bit of a headache. And if I haven’t told you anything about what it actually smells like, that’s because I truly do not know. But imagine a bowl of plastic fruit. A facsimile of fruit, of something sweet and seasonal and juicy that once existed somewhere, but the person who molded this fruit maybe has never even seen this fruit. Imagine you melted down to a slurry those waxy, musty plastic apples and grapes and bananas and dumped in a Costco-sized bag of Truvia, and attempted to make cotton candy with it. And then, for some ungodly reason, you wrote a poem about it. Ok, this review is all over the place, and you’re probably walking away from it dumber than when you started. If it’s any consolation, I am too.

09/27/2024

6
Pricing 8
Bottle 7
Sillage 6
Longevity 5
Scent

Ninamariah
229 Reviews

Ninamariah

3

Underwhelming and boring yet pleasant and crowd pleasing

Normally I write a statement instead of the review if I only have a sample and the scent is underwhelming but my thoughts don't fit in the statement.

I just don't understand the hype of this scent. It's just a generic, very easy soft, utterly smooth blend with Saffron and sophisticated leather. I don't find any smokiness here, it's only a few seconds in the opening. The scent is well blended and ingredients are fine but I just wish that all those gorgeous notes would be more noticeable, especially Plum and Frankincense. On the other hand the scent is crowd pleasing and popular, all scents can't be something special and unique I guess. I like this, it's pleasant but it's not enough, it wouldn't bring any value to my collection.

This short review is based on o sample and I have been wearing this many times now during a year. I'm not going to buy a full bottle.

Thank you for reading.

02/03/2023

7
Pricing 10
Bottle 7
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

Dandylion
4 Reviews

Dandylion

2

long lasting saffrony

The opening is dry and absolutely saffrony with a creamy somewhat honeyish amber.

I like it a lot!

After some minutes the dryness goes halfway away and it settles still honeyish-saffrony. It’s warm, embosoming and quite elegant.

I can’t follow the amount of negative reviews and especially the silly text rated as “in depth” with a bunch of nonsensical gibberish…

I’d even say if you’re female and enjoy rather masculine scents with spices, Amber and saffron as base that’s a safe buy.

I enjoy it a lot and it’s not too sweet nor gourmand, on the contrary, it‘s a very elegant and rich truly unisex scent. It’s got that sweet honeyish note somewhere in the background but it doesn’t stitch. The saffron doesn’t allow it.

I didn’t like Velvet Tonka from BDK, for me, nauseatingly sweet as I also dislike Kirke (a mess of unfathomable dimensions), Initio’s aphrodisiac (blergh), MFK Gentle fluidity gold (I like the silver tho!) and other candy-bombs that for me smell cheap by the way…

If you would enjoy an uncommon and dry creamy ambery saffrony fragrance in your collection, just get it. Actually the single scent I like from the House BDK.

08/22/2023

6
Pricing 8
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 6
Scent

Belletrist
31 Reviews

Belletrist

1

Spicy amber suede

Ambre Safrano opens with pretty much exactly it's namesakes: amber and saffron. Then, the other notes join in, and for a while the most prominent part of the sillage is a spicy pepperiness carried on top of a creamy suede that is lightly reminiscent of Drakkar Noir. I kept thinking I was wearing something that was vaguely shaving cream (grapefruit-bergamot) ish but not quite. The sillage is quite impressive for the first few hours and then it does recede in the drydown, a very nice amber that is dominated by vanilla, but paired with a touch of spice and some woody aspects. On my skin I didn't really encounter plum or rose, except perhaps in the places where the saffron and pepper met the base, if that makes sense. I also didn't really get any leather except for the saffron impression of suede.

It's one of the more unique takes on amber that I've come across, personally, and I have a collection chock full of ambers. I think you should wear whatever you want, and I would certainly wear it, but agree with the general consensus that it leans slightly masculine.

Sprayed from the tester bottle at ZGO Perfumery in SF on skin on a 75F day. Worn ~9hrs at time of writing.

03/16/2025

3
Pricing 6
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Raluko111
294 Reviews

Raluko111

1

Great opening, but I just want more from my scent journey.

The peppery, sweet saffron in the opening is deeelicious! And when the heart notes peak through, I'm licking my lips with anticipation and pleasure. It reminds me of a more feminine, but less sweet version of Dolce Q.B., a handsome, hot biker woman, a contradictory and alluring mix of feminine and masculine. If only this aspect of it lasted long enough, I might have loved this. But, like most offers from BDK, it reaches the same boring vanilla-laden equilibrium state with just a hint of the awesome ingredients that I admired in the opening and heart notes. Like the previous reviewer said, it's just okay, crowd-pleasing but not amazing in any way. And at that price point, I want more from my scent journey.

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