Ambra
Omnia Profumi

I've been eyeing this one off for a while, and it was on my wish-list, and then as I was picking through the last lot of samples I got with my last purchase, what did I find? Yep, this little beauty. I'm guessing it's the opoponax, but when it first goes on, I get a faint boozy whiff, accompanied by something that makes me think of a freshly opened box of raisins. That settles and then I'm left with a beautiful warm amber, touched with vanilla. I don't get much of the orange or bergamot (or the other notes for that matter), but that's ok – I'm on a bit of an amber kick at the moment. I like this a lot – it's a lovely warm, cosy, comforting scent, and I could easily go for a full bottle.

Imagine a slab of a thick, rich, chewy vanilla nougat laced with orange essence and studded with almonds. Imagine that this has been distilled into a perfume. The result is Omnia Ambra. I'm not ordinarily into gourmands but Ambra is the exception. The initial blast of vanilla, orange and almond is almost mouth watering and settles down onto the skin to become a beautiful vanillic amber with just a touch of a clean musk tying everything together. This has excellent longevity 12+ hours and projects off the skin nicely to provide the wearer with subtle hints of the perfume all day.