Hermès Hermessence Ambre Narguilé
4.4
Overall
Accords
sweet
warm spicy
vanilla
cinnamon
amber
honey
Community Verdict
Pros & Cons
- ✅ It's one of my favorite comfort fragrances. The warmth, the spices, the sweetness. Everything feels balanced.
- ✅ Ambre Narguile is a sweet study on how to make an amber fragrance. There are sweet spices in there, some toasted sesame, homey honey, dark rum, sticky toffee and a heavy base of the gourmand triumvirate: vanilla, benzoin and tonka bean with musk.
- ✅ This is exactly what I expected Angels Share to smell like when I first heard about it. It’s boozy and reminds me of poached apples in cinnamon.
- ✅ Ambre Narguile is a sweet study on how to make an amber fragrance.
- ✅ This is exactly what I expected Angels Share to smell like... It’s boozy and reminds me of poached apples in cinnamon.
- ❌ At first, I was quite excited about this perfume, but unfortunately the dry-down smells very powdery, musky and old-fashioned.
- ❌ I just really dislike tobacco in fragrances, apparently in any amount as I’m learning. The tobacco seemed to impart this medicinal, musty quality at the back of every sniff.
- ❌ The opening is lovely, but nobody seems to mention that the deeper drydown is a granny oriental. That coumarin/vanillic/stuffy musk combo I associate with an unwanted hug from a great-aunt.
- ❌ the dry-down smells very powdery, musky and old-fashioned.
- ❌ I just really dislike tobacco in fragrances... medicinal, musty quality.
- ❌ the deeper drydown is a granny oriental.
