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Gentleman Society Ambrée
Tobacco is what you buy Givenchy Gentleman Society Ambrée Eau de Parfum for, and it is handled as the dried leaf rather than as smoke, sweet and slightly leathery with a hay like dryness underneath it.
The opening does not prepare you for that warmth. Sage is bitter, herbal and grey green, juniper berry adds a cool resinous snap, and nutmeg brings a dry, dusty spice, so the first few minutes are aromatic and quite stern. It is a deliberate piece of misdirection, because what follows is considerably softer. The middle is where the fragrance turns. Daffodil is the unusual material in it, green and faintly honeyed with a slightly bitter edge that keeps the composition from going sweet too early, while vetiver adds rooty earth and sandalwood a creamy smoothness. Those three sit together comfortably and bridge the herbs above and the warmth below.
Then tobacco, tolu balsam and vanilla arrive and settle in for the night. Tolu balsam is a resin with a spiced, slightly medicinal sweetness, vanilla is poured on with a reasonably light hand, and tobacco gives the whole base its character, warm and dry and faintly sweet at once. It is a comfortable, grown up finish.
In wear it is long lasting with a trail that stays within a conversation rather than crossing a room, and it belongs to autumn and winter evenings far more than to warm afternoons. It reads masculine and it suits anybody who finds the standard Gentleman Society a little cool. The house was begun in Paris in 1952 by Hubert de Givenchy and now belongs to LVMH, which runs its couture and its perfume as two maisons under one name.
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