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American Amber Folkwinds 2025

7.7 / 10 23 Ratings

A new and limited perfume by Folkwinds for women and men, released in 2025. The scent is spicy-resinous. Projection and longevity are above-average.
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Main accords

Spicy

Resinous

Oriental

Woody

Floral

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Rosa rugosa Spices

Spices

Red currant

Heart Notes

Amburana cearensis

Borneo oud

Burmese oud

Carnation

Papua oud

Styrax

Thai oud

Base Notes

Deer musk

Oud resin

Sandalwood Vanilla

Vanilla

Perfumer & Creative Guidance

Jono Bornstein Perfume maker

Ratings

Scent

7.723 Ratings

Longevity

9.020 Ratings

Sillage

8.321 Ratings

Bottle

8.526 Ratings

Value for money

6.417 Ratings

Submitted by Chizza, last update on 11/27/2025.

Interesting Facts

This scent is limited to 100 bottles.

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Reviews

2 in-depth fragrance descriptions

10/10/2025

6Scent 10Longevity 10Sillage

Thebooroo
8 Reviews

Thebooroo

1

A spicy, woody, animalic amber.

This is a bit different from the rest of FW's offerings. It's brash and bold in the opening - a mixture of spices and wood (as is de rigeur for Folkwinds) but coupled (thripled?) with a heavy dose of Kashmiri deer musk and all of the extra spiciness that that brings with it. There's also some smoke and sweetness in the background.

If you've tried any of the other Amburana series, you'll be able to pick out the Amburana in this but, if not, this is a good showcase for the wood.

Jono has become a master at capturing the agrestic scentscape of Americana in a bottle and this is no different.

01/31/2025

Fnordscent
4 Reviews

Fnordscent

2

A cozy western take on a Lutensian Amber

American Amber opens robustly spicy and balsamic. It’s a huge winter warmer of an opening, conjuring a still life painting of overflowing cornucopias of cranberries, jarred spices and wood chips next to smoldering tabletop ziggurats of eastern resins and cooling thuribles of oud ash. It’s a pastoral simmer pot of rich harvest ephemera churning away in a cast iron cauldron above a ripping fire.

Shortly after the transportive opening, the “Amber” part becomes much more apparent. Theres a rich, almost buttery resinousness to this that feels downright Lutensian. A brief hologram of sandalwood appears for just a moment before the Amburana comes fully into view, supported by a slight rose. I’m tempted to say this is my favorite use of the material out of the trio as there’s something primordially amberous about the warm cinnamon-but different spice nuances of the wood.

Finally it settles on a rich Amber base cut through with the signature FW spice melange (clove, immortelle, cinnamon) and a reigned in multifaceted animalic undertone. This feels like the more masculine Apollonian solar twin to By and By’s Dionysian booze-addled passion. Sleepy Hollow feels like some kind of lunar trickster right in between them.

What I really appreciate about AA (and about the Amburana trio) is how much they play with established styles: a step forward for the brand and for American Niche in general. While I enjoy the sort of rustic aesthetic choices of much of the Coniferously Slumberhousian, it often feels like they exist more in the tradition of candle making or atmospheric scents of place. This is so clearly an amber scent to me that it makes me smile every time I wear it. The maturity of accepting established structures paired with the confidence of using regional materials or aesthetics is how new styles are created, showing respect for tradition by contributing to its evolution.

If I had to levy criticism towards it, I would say that the FW DNA could be reigned in just a little to really drive home the Amber connection, but I’m tempted to say this is my favorite of the Amburana Trio which is saying something as they have all been excellent.

If it wasn’t obvious from my forced attempt to shoehorn in big bucolic imagery in my opening paragraph, I have been finishing up Thomas Pynchon’s Mason and Dixon while testing American Amber and the pairing has been absolutely phenomenal. I am happy that I’ll always associate this scent with such a funny, sad, and cozy book. The first page alone is worth a read for anyone testing AA.

Statements

4 short views on the fragrance

Rachelg

7 months ago

5Scent

4

A pancake syrup dying star that's collapsed in on itself and has become so dense it's sucking the the entire universe down to a pinpoint.

Sirbennyone

2 days ago

8Scent 9Longevity 9Sillage

2

1

The TRUE Spicebomb
Dry, spicy
Oriental touch
Unique
in your face
H/S Top
True statement

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Smellspezial

5 months ago

8.5Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

2

Spice explosion like in the bazaar of Marrakech
A mix of old woods
and creamy musk
Overall, very successful

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Smellperfect

9 months ago

9.5Scent 9Longevity 9Sillage

6

1

The journey begins through Thailand's gardens - fresh flowers, old trees, beautiful resins - before we hit the streets, markets, fresh spices, and musk.

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