ASTIER DE VILLATTE
Ambre Liquide

2024

PERFUMER
Dominique Ropion

damask rose
amber
cistus
myrrh
styrax
frankincense
vanilla

‘Drawn straight from the fantastical Middle Ages and the legendary pomander – that perfume-jewel used to ensure good health for body and soul – Ambre Liquide, like a precious talisman, exhales a marvellous amber, vanilla and slightly sweet scent with mystical, comforting powers. Reinterpreted today by Dominique Ropion from an incredible recipe dating from 1348, rich in fragrant ingredients to ward off the Black Death and the forces of evil, its intensely fragrant formula immediately transports us to another world. Delectable scents of spices and aromatics are released, including warm, amber, resinous absolute of Cistus, a wild shrub from the arid Spanish scrublands; Damask Rose, the sweetest, most opulent and honeyed of all roses; heady, intoxicating wild Myrrh; Styrax resin with its warm musky trail of leather tones; and highly spiritual Frankincense.’ – Aedes