{"product_id":"adolfo-dominguez-ambar-negro-eau-de-parfum","title":"Ámbar Negro Eau de Parfum","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is a smoky, almost medicinal root underneath Adolfo Domínguez Ámbar Negro Eau de Parfum, and for a house better known for scrubbed citrus colognes that makes this 2023 release worth meeting on its own terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLemon opens it, briefly, and is cut almost at once by star anise, sweet and liquorice like, and by rosemary, which is dry, camphorous and properly herbal. The middle is where it turns unusual. Lavender would ordinarily soften a composition at that stage; here it is pushed sideways by elemi, a resin with a peppery, lemon tinged, faintly ecclesiastical smell, while cinnamon supplies dry heat rather than any bakery sweetness. The base explains the name. Amber gives the warmth and the resinous glow, labdanum thickens it with something leathery and faintly animal, and cypriol, that dark smoky grass root, is what makes the whole thing read as black rather than golden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn eau de parfum strength it has real staying power, and the resins are the slowest part to go, so what you smell at hour six is the smoke rather than the citrus. Two sprays are plenty. This is cold weather wear and evening wear, and it leans masculine without shutting anyone out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst the rest of the label it is the outlier. The house reputation rests on light, clean, Mediterranean scents, and this is their opposite: dense, dry and a little severe. If the colognes have always struck you as too polite, begin here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe label started life as a Galician clothing business in 1976, grown out of a tailor's shop that had been trading in Ourense since 1950. Its founder put the first perfume ever signed by a Spanish designer on sale in 1990, and the firm argues that the scent in question, Agua Fresca, changed what Spain expects a fragrance to smell like. Perfume is handled under licence by Puig.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Adolfo Domínguez","offers":[{"title":"120ml","offer_id":53294654980423,"sku":"ENG189314","price":71.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"200ml","offer_id":54426138706247,"sku":"ENG189313","price":75.6,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5049\/1463\/files\/cHUyM3p1TVhGN3ZKakl3ZzlGTSttY3NtRzJReTZiQktib0d1UDlpU251c1JjWTNGS1ZWNkJZWTRHMnY1eUFLSA2.jpg?v=1770474034","url":"https:\/\/thescentvault.ie\/products\/adolfo-dominguez-ambar-negro-eau-de-parfum","provider":"The Scent Vault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}