Blue Amber by Montale Eau de Parfum

I really like Blue Amber!
I had a sample that I'm using now in colder weather and it gives relief to my soul!
It doesn't smell too complicated, rather a good amber scent, quite close to the skin and with a medium level of complexity.
This smells the way I would have liked Shalimar to smell on me!
It's long lasting, elegant, sweet but not cookie/foody and it gives an aura of soft, mysterious yet approachable elegance to the wearer!
It makes people come closer.
I cannot say if it deserves the crazy Montale's pricetag. It much dependns on your own possibilities.
I can say it's worthy a FB if you are looking for amber fragrance.

This was a blind buy for me, but I'm so glad that I went for it.

At first spray, I was almost repulsed by the overwhelming strength of the perfume, and against my better judgement, I smelled it wet. Fresh from the spray, it was immediately, harshly masculine, and so potent that it burnt my nose.
As I had to make it to an engagement, I changed my clothes and rubbed as much of it off my skin as I could, and applied a very simple vanilla frag.

As soon as I got home though, I caught a whiff of the perfume again, and I immediately ran back to my room to discover that while I was out, the amber, coriander, and patchouli notes had faded into the background, while the perfume developed into an embracing, seductive, sultry amber-vanilla experience. I sat on my bed just smelling the scent on my clothes for about 15 minutes, just enjoying that experience. I'm wearing it again today and the only advice that I could give is to wait for the dry down to make a harsh judgement.

If you like amber and vanilla, and spicy, sexy perfumes, I cannot recommend this enough!

Every once in a while you hear about how great a niche house is, from other parfumistas. When I read up on some of the scents they make, that interested me, they all seemed to have rather common "notes". After receiving a few samples and a couple spray decants from other members, I can honestly say this is one company that lives up to the "hype"!

Blue Amber is, perhaps, one of the best "amber" scents I have EVER smelled...if not THE BEST. Usually fragrances that have their notes listed linearly are not really all that intruiging or exciting. THIS, on the other hand, is one of those "to die for" scents. Rich, sweet (but not saccharine or gourmand) and exotic are the first words that come to mind upon applying it; and it just keeps getting better. Amber "comes" in many colors (gold, grey, black...) in perfumery. I was skeptical about another "blue" anything...but, lo! and behold this borders on the divine.

A regal couple: slightly dry and crumbly amber resin and sensual dark vanilla, spiced with dry geranium and corriander, recline on a bed of smoky vetiver, as patchouli dances suggestively and erotically around them. Bergamot (for once) does not "open" the show but adds a subtle brightly bitter aspect to the entire construct without being another "citrusy" scent. This amber IS blue; like the deep dark blue color the sky turns just before the sun sinks slowly beneath the horizon, somewhere between the fading warm golden and deep orange tones of evening and the velvet black of night. I used to think the MORE notes a perfume had (or the more unique and unusual they were) the better it was; this company has made me see it is not WHAT notes are in it, so much as how wonderfully they are blended and the quality and concentration of them. This fragrance makes me think of the tales spun by Scherazade in the Arabian Nights, complete with bazaars, genies, flying carpets, magic lamps and lost cities filled with treasure. And just like the stories she told to the Sultan (in an attempt to delay her own death) it goes on and on and on...pulling you in; surrounding you with beauty, magic and wonder!

Wear a blue velvet jacket & toss your other amber perfumes.

This is amber the way it should be: teasing in the opening, surrounded by bergamot and geranium for sparks; giving in to vanilla in the process, but never too sweet; only just kept in pace by coriander and vetiver.
Really, no need to look any further, this is the best amber I found after years of investigation. (insert smiley with pipe).

Thank you Montale.

I love it: great amber/vanilla combo, crazy longevity and good sillage.

I have to disagree with Melyhelly and her Montale pricetag comment: ordering directly from them you get 50ml of Blue Amber for 55€. If you buy 100ml or 2x50ml you get free shipping worldwide and 20ml free of any Montale of your choice.

That's quite a deal compared to most niche houses :S