Dossier

Ambery Vanilla

VersionEau de Parfum

Mandarin, pear, pink pepper and licorice over jasmine and orange blossom, drying to black coffee, vanilla, patchouli and cedar.

Dossier says

You’ll smell mandarin, pear, Pink Pepper, liquorice, jasmine, Orange Blossom, cedarwood, patchouli, vanilla and coffee.

More from Dossier’s description

It also mentions Liquorice and Black coffee.

The house’s page

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Ambery Vanilla’s scent picture, a draft: mandarin, pear, pink pepper, liquorice, jasmine, orange blossom drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Ambery Vanilla, top notes: Mandarin, Pear, Pink pepper, Liquorice, Lemon, Sweet orange

Heartas it settles

Ambery Vanilla, heart: Jasmine, Orange blossom

Dry-downwhat stays

Ambery Vanilla, dry-down: Cedar, Patchouli, Vanilla (vanillin), Coffee, Virginia cedar, Iso E Super (pencil shavings), Galaxolide (musk), Coumarin (tonka)

What’s inside it

What Dossier names

MandarinPearPink PepperLiquoriceJasmineOrange BlossomCedarwoodPatchouliVanillaCoffee

What the label names

24 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

4 citrus3 herbs & lavender10 florals3 woods2 sweet1 spices1 musks

Citrus4

LimoneneLemon oilBitter orange oilCitral

Herbs & lavender3

PineneLinalyl acetateLinalool

Florals10

Benzyl salicylateHydroxycitronellalHexyl cinnamal (aldehydes)Dimethyl phenethyl acetateGeranyl acetateGeraniolCitronellolCinnamyl alcoholRose ketonesAmyl cinnamal (aldehydes)

Woods3

Cedarwood oilPatchouli oilIso E Super (pencil shavings)

Sweet2

Vanillin (vanilla)Coumarin (tonka)

Spices1

beta-Caryophyllene

Musks1

Galaxolide (musk)
5 more lines on the label: 1 not yet in Ingredients, 4 not there for the smell

Not in Ingredients yet1

Hexadecanol acetone, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell4

AlcoholWaterBenzyl alcoholBenzyl benzoate

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Black OpiumYSL · shares jasmine, bitter orange (neroli, orange blossom, petitgrain), cedar (Atlas cedar), patchouli and 2 more$174 for 90 ml
IdôleLancôme · shares pear, pink pepper, jasmine, cedar (Atlas cedar) and 2 more$157 for 100 ml
ElsewhereAmouage · shares mandarin, pink pepper, cedar (Atlas cedar), patchouli and 2 more$475 for 100 ml

Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.