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White Ambergris 3% Tincture (2.5 YEARS AGED)
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Adam Michael has this to say “The fragrant white ambergris used for the preparation of this tincture hails from the beautiful wild beaches of Ireland. Aromatically it is a very gentle material that definitely needs to be taken out of the bottle for evaluation. Personally when it comes to ambergris the most enjoyable way to evaluate it is by placing a few drops directly on the skin. The aroma is sweet, gently animalic, clean, with breezy salty ocean water notes throughout. It is actually a material that remains at all times very close to the skin until it merges with the natural skin’s scent itself and after a while you might be wondering if it’s the ambergris or if it is your skin that smells good, comparable to say laying in the sun after a swim in the ocean and the skin is refreshingly salty yet sensual and warm.
This is a real deal product with all of its gentle yet fascinating character. If you are looking for some loud ambergris-like material that literally jumps out of the bottle or that leaves a wake when added to your perfume then this is not the material for you.
Over the years the public has got used to the aroma of synthetic ambergris replacers (which some people prefer for a number of reasons and of course there is nothing wrong with that) to the extent that now there is the expectation that ambergris smells like the replacer rather than the other way around! Things seems to have gone so far that it has been even brought to my attention that a certain ambergris tincture vendor has added small amounts of ambergris-like aroma chemicals, likely ambrofix, to make that material smell louder – in other words closer to the smell of the synthetic replacers – and to what many have grown to expect, especially when smelling natural ambergris for the first time.
Well, I want to be clear this Hermitage tincture has undergone nothing like that, its aroma in all of its complex yet intimate beauty is all here to be known and respected in its true character. We absolutely love this material at Hermitage and we invite you to get a sample first if you are not sure whether you’ll love the scent of real ambergris too, or not at all. From beach combed material, two year and a half aged at the time of writing (13th June 2019).”
Origin: Ireland
22/11/2021: We have how released a new batch of this White Ambergris, one year aged and with a very beautiful aroma profile that will keep improving with age. Please note that this material is not additioned with any aroma chemical to make its scent stronger or louder and its profile is naturally delicate and stays close to the skin. If you are not familiar with natural ambergris, please purchase the smallest size available first to be sure that this material is for you.
13 reviews for White Ambergris 3% Tincture (2.5 YEARS AGED)
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thursturston (verified owner) –
Excellent! A very mellow ambergris tincture, I have various different ambergris and it’s amazing how they are fundamentally similar, but never can be the same due the nature of how they are formed. This tincture has the closeness of breath (not bad breath as such) or drying saliva on skin, not unpleasant just vaguely creepy. This is not as salty as some I’ve encountered but does have a touch of oceanic breeze, nor is it as dirty as less mature darker ambergris, it’s kind of a Goldilocks scenario really and this tincture is perfectly pitched in the middle. One fundamental truth is that Ambergris will improve your blends even if you can’t overtly smell it, the fixative and exalting qualities are legendary and highly prized with good reason.
Jarreau bowhay (verified owner) –
My first ambergris tincture… I couldn’t smell it at first so added two drops to my wrist and wow. Such a fascinating scent. Also find my self overdosing mixes with this stuff, so just test drop by drop, let it sit and come back to it.
Thomas (verified owner) –
Sweet and delicate. What coud you expect ? This is a 3% tincture, therefore the effect is mild but persistant, as Adam commented. However, this is an intriguing scent. I just spilled a tiny single drop of this tincture on the back of my hand an I could not stop smelling my hand. Very intriguing, indeed.
Joel R (verified owner) –
A truly beautiful material, as always very well described by Adam.
The effect of skin after bathing in the sea is there, not so much in its salty facet than the complex, alive aroma of seawater. Alive is the crux here, as it has a striking humanness, so much so that it has a fascinating, “closeup human” character
Indie Perfumer (verified owner) –
I have evaluated ambergris tinctures from numerous online suppliers based in Europe and the United States. Due to ambergris’ cost and rarity, it may not surprise that most offerings – even that of one reputable dealer – are not genuine. Some appear to result from miscellaneous beach refuse, and others, a deceitful mixture of aroma chemicals, seaweed absolute, animalic products, labdanum fractions, etc. Hermitage Oils is, to my knowledge, the only online supplier selling a genuine ambergris tincture made from white beached amber, the rarest and most expensive variety. The odor of this tincture is relatively discreet, clean, elegant and woody, with marine, mossy and warm animalic facets recalling seaweed, civet and Tonkin musk, and a slight olibanum note. While not especially diffusive, this tincture lends a composition unique roundness and fixation. Should any evidence be required of Hermitage Oil’s vital contribution to the independent perfumer’s palette, this material is proof.
Charlotte D (verified owner) –
I have been using ambergris tincture from Hermitage Oils for a few years to make scented paste. It is a key ingredient as it helps preserve the fragrance of other ingredients in the beads that I make from the paste. In North Africa, where such beads have been made for centuries, a set would have been made for a bride and would be expected to retain their perfume for a lifetime. So far, the beads I make have maintained their wonderful aroma!
Charalambos Charalambous (verified owner) –
This is my first ambergris tincture from hermitage company and i don’t know from where to start evaluating this gem..for sure is not a scent that someone can easily evaluate from sniffing directly from the bottle..but this is the true stuff.no chemicals or overly animalic and musky fake scents as some other suppliers swears that they have real ambergris..it has a soft salty ,seaweed and musky touch when you drop it on your skin but … actually it creates miracles when you use it as you should in a perfume composition..what an amazing transformation and how amazingly it gives soul to a perfume ..wow !!
CATHERINE A (verified owner) –
A very subtle and tenacios odor, enhance all compositions , sweet but salty , a little animalic but clean , fantastic !!!
Aurelya (verified owner) –
I can’t stop sniffing it, a wonderful sweet and delicate perceptible smell, this tincture is very good, it smells much better than Scottish, which I bought from another supplier. I wish I could buy a few liters of it 🙂
hajjikram (verified owner) –
Hermitage Oil’s Irish white ambergris is my favourite ambergris by far. It’s very difficult to pick up its scent when sniffing it straight from the bottle but once your nose has become more refined, you’re able to pick it up with out applying it on skin.
On skin, the aroma is sweet, slightly salty, fresh, a bit musky and caramel-like. It does an amazing thing in a composition by lifting the other notes and enveloping them. It gives the perfume an enchanting and ethereal feel. It’s a raw material that does wonders with all materials it is blended with. There’s no synthetic that can compare to it.
Patrick E (verified owner) –
When I cook food, I put butter in practically everything. And when I make fragrances, I put ambergris in practically everything. I love it that much. Glad to see it back in stock! Thank you!
Santeri P (verified owner) –
Wow, what a fascinating scent! This has a striking resemblance to the air inside my apartment building’s laundromat. Humid and thick air filtered through dryers and washers. Various musks from fabric softeners lingering in the air. Synthetic musk alone doesn’t smell like this, but combined with stale humid air it creates a distinct “laundromat aroma”. It’s very warm, thick, musky and cocooning. Almost as if the air became more dense than usual.
This particular white ambergris also smells totally clean. There are zero fecal / halitosis undertones. It is slightly animalic with a “living skin” faucet. Complex, biological, oceanic, mineralic. Almost as if that laundromat aroma of thick, cocooning warm air came alive… Will be interesting to see how this affects the blends it’s added to!
Juho (verified owner) –
My first time smelling real ambergris. I was quite surprised by the smell because I have had a kind of synthetic ambergris base or fragrance oil before and this doesn’t really smell similar. That one was rather sweet and clean musk-like scent and this real thing has to me only a very subtle sweetness so I wouldn’t even really call it sweet. It is also not salty or some kind of fresh oceanic type of scent. Instead my first thought was “musty” when smelling this. It reminds me of a type of stale damp smell I have experienced around some swimming pools, changing rooms and public showers. Also there is some type of waxiness in the smell which reminds me a bit of swimsuits. I also get a bit of that seaside smell like seaweed, wet sand and mud. Even though the description doesn’t sound like such a good smell I still quite like it. This tincture is understandably quite light in smell. I mostly detect it only a little while on my skin. But the slight waxy feel lasts. I have to yet experiment with it in blends and how it affects them.