Ambre Nuit is the unisex eau de parfum that François Demachy composed in 2009 for Dior, the fourth of the colognes born under Hedi Slimane, since folded into La Collection Privée. An amber floral silhouette for the house: an amber note in the opening, a velvety Damask rose, between shadow and light, like a shifting taffeta. Pink pepper, bergamot, ambergris, cedar, guaiac wood and patchouli according to Wikiparfum; 50, 100 and 200 ml.
Dior does not publish a pyramid. The house names two materials, an amber note in the opening and a velvety Damask rose, and an amber floral silhouette. Wikiparfum attributes to it, without tiering them, amber, rose from Turkey, bergamot, cedar, patchouli, guaiac wood and pink pepper.
Pink pepper and bergamot in the top notes
Birgit describes an opening of bergamot and pepper, where the rose arrives quickly; the ingredients list declares bergamot oil on the sixth line. The field keeps pink pepper and bergamot in the top notes, which Wikiparfum names without placing them.
Rose in the heart
The house's Damask rose, rose from Turkey according to Wikiparfum, holds the heart; Birgit finds it charming, surrounded by spicy accents. The ingredients list declares rose oil or extract, Ceylon cinnamon bark and cinnamal, which carry the spice.
Ambergris, cedar, guaiac wood and patchouli in the base
Birgit sets the rose on a woody accord, amber and patchouli turning around it, gently smoky, frankly oriental; Wikiparfum names cedar, guaiac wood and patchouli. The list declares Virginia cedarwood oil, patchouli, sandalwood and santalol, without guaiac wood.
What falls outside the declared accord
Cinnamon and sandalwood, which the ingredients list declares, do not appear in the field, neither at the house nor at Wikiparfum. The field's guaiac wood comes from Wikiparfum and Birgit, not from the label. The house classifies Ambre Nuit as gourmand on its American page and as amber floral in its text.
What the label declares
The house publishes a coded list of thirty-five lines: alcohol, water, Parfum, a synthetic amber wood, Virginia cedarwood oil, bergamot oil, two UV filters, limonene, coumarin, patchouli oil, linalyl acetate, citronellol, alpha-isomethyl ionone, linalool, santalol, pinene, rose oil or extract.
Then come beta-caryophyllene, white sandalwood oil, eugenol, geraniol, benzyl benzoate, Ceylon cinnamon bark oil, citral, rose ketones, cinnamal, geranyl acetate, terpineol, terpinolene, benzyl cinnamate, farnesol and three colorants, red, yellow and blue.