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Ambre Rouge
Alyssa Ashley Ambre Rouge Eau de Parfum 100ml is the full size bottle of a dark, fruited amber scent, and 100ml is the right amount for something built this much for autumn and winter rather than for occasional use.
Tangerine and black pepper open it, and the pairing is a good one. Tangerine is sweet and round with a little peel bitterness behind it, black pepper is dry and prickly, and together they give the first ten minutes some lift without any real brightness. The fragrance never sets out to be cheerful. The heart is where it darkens. Blackberry is jammy and slightly tart, more like fruit cooked down than fruit picked, and rose sits with it full and velvety. That combination of a dark berry and a rich flower is what gives this fragrance its character, and it is the part of it that most people will remember afterwards.
The base is three materials and all of them are warm. Amber is resinous and glowing, benzoin is balsamic and sweet with a faintly burnt edge to it, and patchouli puts dark earth underneath the pair so the sweetness has something to stand on. Seven materials in total, which is lean by any measure, and it wears like a simple idea carried out properly rather than a complicated one carried out halfway.
Expect good longevity and moderate projection at this concentration. It is a women's fragrance made for cold weather and for the evening, and one spray of it is usually enough. The brand was started in 1969 by Enrico Donati, a surrealist painter working in Italy, under the House of Houbigant, and it carries his daughter's name. Consuelo Perris took control of it in 2019.
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