If my favorite perfumer comes out with a new perfume, do you think I’m not going to notice? Yeah, I stuck my neck out here. All my fragrance review buddies tell me in private they think I’m crazy. But my nose knows. You can’t fool me. I’ve put out a ton of reviews. You can’t smell this much stuff and not know house DNAs. When a certain perfumer builds a house accord, you get to know that smell. Especially when it’s one of my most favorite, one of the most covered on my channel, you can’t sneak this past me. I bought this blind from LuckyScent because it was advertised as having real ambergris. I set the package aside when I got it for a while, and when I finally opened it and smelled it, I noticed it reminded me of Baikal Gris by Areej la Dore. I went back and looked through all the real ambergris scents on Luckyscent. Could there be any other perfumer that could make this?
It seems like a ton of reviewers got free bottles of Silver Ambergris. I can see where the perfumer’s respect lies. I am sick of the perfume commercials, so I think the fact that this was sent out anonymously to a lot of reviewers that aren’t familiar with real ambergris means the perfumer deserves what he got. There were a few reviewers that handled it well and dissected the juice professionally, but most didn’t spend enough time analyzing this, and these are the reviewers that regularly praise their free Areej la Dore bottles. The human part of me feels like my nose should have been trusted by the perfumer to put this out there, but I’m going to set that aside. I’m becoming a different person on this journey. I go by juice alone, and I’m always going to share my honest opinion when I review. Some reviewers questioned if this was real ambergris, but if you get away from synthetics, you easily can tell this is packed with it. It literally is an ambergris fragrance, which the bottle leads you to believe it is. Russian Adam, are we still friends?
On to the juice: this smells familiar. This smells like a better Baikal Gris, more purified clean air rather than muddied and clay like. Even though it is grey, it comes off as very fresh. It is clean with a slight soapy edge to it and some animalics. This smells like driving the Oregon curves on the Coastal Range, up and down, left and right on a perfect day, windows down, smelling the salty fresh air change the whole way. There’s nothing in this that will blow up on your skin. It’s beautiful with some frangipani on top and some slight citrus. The sweetened citrus burns off, leaving florals and soft woods (maybe a sandalwood or rosewood). This is an easy-to-wear fragrance that will layer with so many things. It’s awesome to use to add flair to your other perfumes; try it with your favorite rose. You will be surprised.
I wouldn’t call this a complete composition, but the name lets you know this is primarily an ambergris scent. A trip to the ocean is just a spray away.