Ambassador Intense
There is a sensible way to approach a fragrance this assertive, and Gisada Ambassador Intense Eau de Parfum Discovery Set is it, because Ambassador Intense is not a scent anybody should buy blind. A discovery format gives you several wearings in small quantities, across different days and different weather, before a full bottle commits you to something this assertive.
The composition is long and deliberately overloaded. Licorice is the first surprise, anise sweet and faintly medicinal, and it works alongside Guatemalan cardamom, nutmeg, ginger and pink pepper in an opening that manages to be both spiced and sharp. Mandarin orange and bergamot thin it out for a few minutes, while lavender, incense and elemi lay down a dry resinous smoke underneath. Elemi smells of bitter peel and tree resin, and it is the material that stops the sweetness arriving too early. Raspberry and caramel then take the middle, with cinnamon and clove supplying heat and geranium, jasmine, orchid, heliotrope and freesia cushioning the fruit. Heliotrope is the quiet one that matters most, powdery and a little like marzipan, blurring the join between the flowers and the sweetness.
The base is built for endurance. Tonka bean and vanilla pour on the sweetness, amber and labdanum add resin and a faintly animal warmth, musk and cashmeran spread everything outwards, and patchouli, leather, Haitian vetiver and oakmoss cut back through it with earth and hide so the finish is not a dessert. Olaf Larsen composed it and it dates from 2022.
The company dates from 2013, when it began trading in Zurich, and it has reached a surprising number of export markets since. Besides Ambassador there is a Gold range and a Prestige Line, so there is somewhere to go next if this one suits you.
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