L’Eau d’Ambre opened the perfume line of L’Artisan Parfumeur in 1978, two years after the amber ball that made the house known. Four materials carry it, and the house names them all: benzoin, labdanum, patchouli and tonka bean. It sees in it an oriental perfume, and the tale of the Thousand and One Nights.
Portia Turbo, at Australian Perfume Junkies, holds L’Eau d’Ambre to be a comfortable amber, which green geranium keeps from tipping into the gourmand.
Olfastory’s review
Portia Turbo, Australian Perfume Junkies (2012)
The Australian reviewer wears the juice for seven hours and still catches, by evening, an amber warmth. She likes the herbal, almost medicinal opening, and credits the green, minty geranium with keeping amber and vanilla away from the gourmand.
She hears in it an oriental that evokes the spice road without ever imposing it, and places it among the ambers one wears anywhere. It is, she writes, the amber for people who do not like amber: sensual rather than sexual, comfortable as a familiar garment.