This doesn't have to do with the actual ingredients, it’s rather a figure of perfumery speech, although of course the perfumes of this category do include "ambery notes". We could classify Shalimar, Obsession, Must de Cartier or Moschino for women (original) in that category. "Ambery" is the general term -according to the French system - to describe the perfumes that fall in the oriental group and that have a warm, slightly powdery, erotic, animalic tonality in them ("parfums ambrés"). This is for all practical purposes what we refer to as the "amber note": labdanum and vanillin. The concept of "amber" on the whole is in fact an olfactory convention of the late 19th century and became a perfume "genre" at that time with the invention of vanillin (synthetic vanilla, as known from patisserie to most of us) added to the time-honored use of labdanum. Fir tree resin, in its regular, non-fossilised form is actually used in perfumery sometimes and offers a rather sweet, warm and deep smell that serves as a base to anchor the other ingredients that are placed on top of this less volatile ingredient. There is no one plant from which amber comes from, although some claim it comes from a special tree growing in the Himalayas.
Fragrant amber is a combination of several different botanical sources (or in ambergris’s case -which is a completely different material- a product of animal origin, more on which later).
Essential oils are oils from plants in their purest form, distilled or otherwise extracted from a single plant species. Amber has additionally become a rather generic, all encompassing term, resulting in us being able to find all types of oils touted as "amber oil" in the market and sold online.Įssentially, there is no such thing as an amber essential oil. Amber is a difficult term to describe in perfumery, simply because it has so many meanings as a word. There are many misunderstandings about amber and hopefully we will dispel some of them here. Amber is a fit subject to tackle in the colder weather, if only because it's such an enveloping aura it creates.
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