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Nouveau Ambre

6.8 / 10 7 Ratings
A perfume by Flavia for women and men. The release year is unknown. The scent is woody-sweet. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Woody
Sweet
Oriental
Spicy
Gourmand

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
CoconutCoconut
Heart Notes Heart Notes
Palo SantoPalo Santo
Base Notes Base Notes
White muskWhite musk Bourbon vanillaBourbon vanilla Vulcanized NotebookVulcanized Notebook
Ratings
Scent
6.87 Ratings
Longevity
8.06 Ratings
Sillage
7.76 Ratings
Bottle
6.99 Ratings
Submitted by Ergreifend · last update on 09/08/2025.
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2 in-depth fragrance descriptions
Flughörnchen

9 Reviews
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Flughörnchen
Flughörnchen
Very helpful Review 12  
Flying Squirrel Escapes
This is called vacation now, the sun is shining and there is chaos in the house. Hammer drills, angle grinders, and all those nice devices are doing their job and stealing my well-deserved peace, turning the house into a major construction site. But there's no use, what must be must be. I thought, I have so much on my plate, so off to the hairdresser.

Who still remembers the 80s? Styled to the tips of the hair, blow-dried hairstyles as far as the eye could see, and all held in place with loads of hairspray.
Now we come to Avapari coconut/vanilla.
So I enter a salon... Hairspray clouds linger in the air and I sit in the chair and I see Palo Santo (somehow familiar, just never introduced himself) carrying a coconut past the window and waving at me briefly. That’s it.
Otherwise, I only smell that strong hairspray from back then. It took hours for anything else to compete with it.
It was just like that, the main thing was that the hairstyle held. I’m still searching for vanilla somewhere but I absolutely cannot find it.
In any case, I got my hair nicely trimmed again. Ears exposed so I can better absorb the construction noise *laughs*
So I’m back home and the only thing I smell is hairspray. Maybe also shoe polish, as @StenLaurel aptly wrote. Erdal had some devilish stuff for shoes too. Not a spray, cream. By now probably reformulated to make shoe care more bearable.

Yes, it’s a shame. I had hoped for more because coconut/vanilla is a rather nice summery combination. But no... better test beforehand, don’t hope!
Not for blind buyers...

Thanks to @AbscheBo for this testing opportunity
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StenLaurel

36 Reviews
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StenLaurel
Top Review 23  
Peter Cleans Shoes
"Did you clean shoes?" Peter looks at me with a questioning gaze.
"No, why?" I reply with an equally questioning look.
"Because you smell like it!" "You smell like women's shoe polish. Sweet women's shoe polish!"
"I smell like what?"
"Women's shoe polish!" "Or did they send you something again?" "By the way, you could really clean some shoes!"
You just have to like him. Peter. The village cat Peter. My landlord. Know-it-all and perfume critic.

Yes, they sent me something again. Perfume. No shoe polish. A sample set from Avapari. After I praised "Pure Amber" so highly. Among other things, a sample of shoe polish. Peter looks over my shoulder and laughs. "Shoe polish! You just wrote shoe polish in the review." That's what happens. When you're entertained by a cheeky cat. I meant perfume, of course. A sample of "Coconut Vanill". The name seems to be the program. It smells like coconut. Right from the first spray. But not like Bounty. Not like that crumbly white stuff. Inside. When you bite into it. More like a real coconut. From the outside. Slightly musty. Having swum too long in the ocean. And then not properly dried before going on the shelf.

"That's coconut, my dear!" I explain to Peter.
"And smells like shoe polish. Sweet shoe polish!" he repeats. Is that called repeating? Whatever.
Yes, he’s not wrong. The coconut transforms. Becomes less musty. Good. Becomes more artificial. Not so good. More shoe polish-like. Also not good. And I smell yogurt. Mandarin yogurt. That stuff in white with a yellow-orange bottom. It might be Palo Santo.

"Sao Paulo is in there?" Peter looks at me with wide eyes. "Are you sure about that?"
"Palo Santo. Not Sao Paulo!" He wasn't listening to me again.
"Oh, I see. And what does Palo Santo smell like?"
"Like shoe polish," is on the tip of my tongue. But I hold it back. I don't know how Sao Paulo smells, now I'm even writing Sao Paulo myself... so Palo Santo smells. Citrusy and like incense, says the clever internet. Good, that could explain the yogurt. The one with the orange-yellow base. Add two heaping spoonfuls of sugar. And a little Black Opium. C'est ça. Perfetto.

Coconut Vanill, not a blind buy candidate. Unless you are a very sweet coconut lover. Or a lover. And don't mind being reminded of shoe cleaning. And, perhaps importantly, of very excellent longevity. And sillage.
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The worst scent I've ever had under my nose. I only smell an extremely sharp hairspray note that almost feels harsh.
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