Clive Christian - Blonde Amber

Clive Christian — Blonde Amber

This one is seriously good. Blonde Amber is a rich, sweet-spicy amber/tobacco fragrance that smells expensive from the opening through the drydown. Clive Christian describes it around bitter orange, blonde tobacco and tonka, at a 25% perfume concentration. 

Full note breakdown:

• Top: Rum, olibanum, bitter orange, cardamom, pink pepper, ginger, bergamot, grapefruit
• Middle: Dried fruits, white/blonde tobacco, sandalwood, saffron, tuberose, osmanthus, jasmine, orris
• Base: Tonka bean, vanilla, myrrh, labdanum, patchouli, musk, cedar, vetiver 

What it smells like:
The first spray gives you boozy rum, bitter citrus and warm spice. Then the magic happens: sweet dried fruit and smooth tobacco start blending into this creamy, almost syrupy amber. The tonka and vanilla make the drydown rich and slightly gourmand, while the resins and woods keep it from smelling like straight dessert.

The tobacco here is important—it isn’t a dirty ashtray tobacco. It’s smooth, sweet, aromatic blonde tobacco, surrounded by amber and dried fruit.