50 community ratings

Café Ambre Noir

2013UnisexClassic

Votes lean masculine

8.8/ 10

Community score
50 ratings

Sultan Pasha Attars Café Ambre Noir is a sweet, gourmand and spicy unisex scent that opens with rum and coffee and deepens into vanilla, benzoin and castoreum.

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How does it perform?

From 40 community ratings, all out of 10.

Longevity

8.8 /10

Sprayed at breakfast, still around at dinner.

Sillage

7.9 /10

People close to you notice, nobody gets overwhelmed.

Bottle

8.0 /10

Sits nicely on a shelf.

Value for money

7.3 /10

Most people feel it is worth the price.

Blind buy risk

Low risk

98% of votes are positive and opinions barely differ.

Notes

They open one after another, from the first spray into the evening.

Top notesfirst 15 minutes

Rum Coffee

Heart notesfirst few hours

Hyacinth Coffee Tobacco

Tea rose absolute

Spices

Base noteswhat stays into the evening

Bourbon vanilla Castoreum Styrax Siam benzoin Tonka bean absolute Ambergris Orris butter Gaiac wood Beeswax Mysore sandalwood Cade juniper

Malt

Bengal oud

Cocoa Coffee Patchouli Labdanum Musk

Accords

From most dominant to most subtle.

Sweet
Gourmand
Spicy
Woody
Oriental
Creamy
Resinous
Earthy

What does Café Ambre Noir smell like?

Most voters place it in autumn and winter, for evenings and nights out. Longevity is rated very strong and sillage good; more voters read it as masculine, though a fair number find it feminine.

The rum and coffee opening softens into hyacinth, tobacco, tea rose absolute and spices at the heart. In the base, Bourbon vanilla, Siam benzoin, labdanum and patchouli build a sweet, resinous, earthy bed, while oud and gaiac wood carry the smoky woodiness. Serge Lutens Bornéo 1834 and Frapin Caravelle Épicée have a close profile.