Comments on: Annick Goutal Ambre Fetiche Photos

By: Tara

Tara — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:59:11 +0000

Hey, congrats on the score! Off to visit AndyFrog myself, thanks for the hot tip…

By: Juno

Juno — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:18:54 +0000

I’d love to see what you think of…my thanks.

By: Nathan Branch

Nathan Branch — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:37:12 +0000

Well, that is a problem — the lack of an amber standard. When ambergris was in wide use, you could be assured of how it was going to act and diffuse in your fragrance, but with the advent of synthetic ambergris molecules (and mixed bases that are labeled “amber”) there’s now a wide swing in how amber is expressed, from thin to syrupy to heavy to dry.
It’s getting to the point where I read “amber” on a label and really have no idea how it’s going to smell, except that it’ll have some sort of sweetness to it.
I’m going to dig through my notes (and untested samples) and see if I can come up with something dry and smoky for you.

By: Juno

Juno — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:51:45 +0000

Nope, no smoke at all. I think amber swings sweet on me – whatever amber means in perfumery – amber resin? Ambergris?
I need an extra dry, extra smokey one – YSL NU is good actually, though I don’t get nearly the smoke others do.

By: Nathan Branch

Nathan Branch — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:24:41 +0000

LOL! Really? You don’t get any of that golden, smoky goodness? It lands on my skin in a cloud of incense and amber.
Did you use a spray sample or a dab sample? Spraying it is the only way to experience this scent. It diffuses it beautifully so that there isn’t a super concentration on one spot of the skin, which gives the smoke a chance to breathe and the sugar a way to radiate outward instead of focused in one super-sweet lump.

By: Juno

Juno — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:35:38 +0000

I tried Ambre Fetiche today and my experience of it is SO different I want to go upstairs and make sure i used the right sample vial.
Sweet-to-the-point-of-sticky amber, drying down to something faintly sandalwoody but still primarily candy sweet in the end. My nose? My chemistry? I wish I could smell what you do….it sounds wonderful.

By: Nathan Branch

Nathan Branch — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:05:40 +0000

Plug away, my dear, but that dam is still gonna break!
If you’re interested in looking at bargains for Goutal, then look up the seller AndyFrog on ebay. That’s who I purchased from, and she has a lot of Goutal fragrances that are selling for considerably less than what you’ll find in a retail store.
She’s also trustworthy (from my experience) and a total pleasure to deal with.

By: ScentScelf

ScentScelf — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:02:43 +0000

I like ambers, so now I’m itching for a snuff of the AG. Meanwhile, will have to scratch by proxy thanks to another delicious photo offering.
(Have totally stuck my fingers in my ears and am humming a tune to ignore the siren song of “bargains to be found…”)