Le Labo · 2006 · Michel Almairac

Ambrette 9

VersionEau de Parfum

Le Labo says

You’ll smell ambrette seed, citrus and fruit.

The house’s page

The drawn Ambrette 9 bottle

Top notesthe first minutes

Heartthe first hours

Dry-downhours later

Ambrette 9’s scent picture, a draft: ambrette drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Dry-downhours later

Ambrette 9, dry-down: ambrette

On the label

What’s inside it

2 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

2 florals

Florals2

FarnesolRose ketones

Not in Ingredients yet1

Hexadecanolactone, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell2

AlcoholWater

Named by Le Labo, never on a label

Ambrette seed

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Wearers say

How far it carries

Perfumers call it sillage.

Close to the skin

An arm’s length

Across a room

Not researched yet. We gather wearers’ reports for the most popular perfumes first.

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Counted from the printed lists: 2 scent ingredients on this label. A shared name, not a shared smell.