Launched in 2015, by Nicolaï Parfumeur Createur (formerly Parfums de Nicolaï) Ambre Cashmere Intense is a not-to-be-missed amber-based fragrance.

Ambre Cashmere Intense opens warm and spicy from black pepper cut with notes of sweet, juicy mandarin and tart lemon. The fruits balance the pepper so that the opening is warm yet light, fresh and just a little sweet - the perfect setting for a heart of iris butter and violet. The iris butter and the violet both have earthy and powdery aspects, and they work together beautifully as the violet aspect of the iris butter boosts the delicate violet, strengthening its sweet, woody-floral scent. The woodiness is picked up by warm, woody, aromatic clove. Then there is the base…sweet, creamy vanilla alongside deep leathery labdanum – there’s that amber accord! – and resinous, earthy benzoin. Tonka bean adds a vanilla/caramel dimension of sweetness. The amber is fully present, and it gets woody from earthy patchouli and creamy sandalwood, all smoothened by musk.

With Ambre Cashmere Intense de Nicolaï has masterfully woven potent ingredients into a refined, delicate, warm, cashmere veil of sensuous amber with a drydown that glows on my skin for hours.

Notes: Black pepper, mandarin, lemon, iris butter, violet, clove bud, vanilla absolute, labdanum benzoin Tonka bean, patchouli essence, sandalwood, musk, amber.