Per Fumum : Ambar by Annette Neuffer

The company says:

PER FUMUM: AMBAR is the third in a series of spiritual scents that mainly consist of balsamic and resinous raw materials that have been used for sacral purposes by many cultures since thousands of years.
It is an archetype amber scent, dry, almost dusty and features the rare and precious essence of Himalayan amber (succinite). It is obtained by a dry distillation (a heat process) from fossilized resins of the pinus succinifera that are about 35 millions of years old.
Genuine ambergris, beach combed from the shores of New Zealand, and sustainably plantation-grown Vietnamese crassna oud do pure magic that one will never find in any commercial perfume.

Per Fumum : Ambar fragrance notes

Head
- cardamom, ginger, bitter orange, bergamot
Heart
- tobacco absolute, rose, jasmine, orris
Base
- fossilized amber, labdanum, vietnamese oud, indian sandalwood, ambergris, vetiver, patchouli

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Annette Neuffer’s Maroquin and Ambra Luminosa were almosts for me, playing in a tobacco-incense-amber space in (very) different ways without quite landing in my sweet spot. With Ambar, Neuffer finally sticks the landing—by ditching the incense and bringing in oud, which is a surprise given my love of incense.

The thing is, Ambar’s ouds, mated with a double-whammy of real, un-vanilla’d ambers—ambergris and fossilized amber—speak like incense. And that airy, smoky quality has a synergy with the tobacco that’s both unexpected and exactly what I’d been waiting for. This is my first exposure to Neuffer’s way with oud, and I’m impressed by her deft touch with the material.

If there’s a downside to Ambar, it’s that it’s somewhat ephemeral. The drydown is lovely, but it hews close to the skin. At Neuffer’s prices, that matters—but not that much. Because at the (literal) end of the day, it still smells so good, I gotta jump back (hunh!), sniff myself.