Pierre Guillaume Paris Peau d’Ambre 28 Eau de Parfum is a sumptuously sweet, balsamic mix of resins, pine, and incense. It’s a warm, resinous amber with hints of smoky incense and well-worn leather. All the notes blended exceptionally well together in a way that made it hard to tell which was most responsible for the effects. The notes are listed as: resins, amber, leather, though the description also calls out frankincense, fir balsam, opoponax, and benzoin.

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It opened with rich, spiced resins–balsamic, thick, and heady–that oozed against a backdrop of pine. The intensity of the spice and the pine amped up noticeably after 10 minutes. I was surprised at how richly sweet everything was; more of a resinous, deep sweetness rather than pure sugar. It had a sweeter, more vanillic quality to its opening than many other amber-driven scents I’ve tried in the past.

There was no mistaking this for anything other than a heavily spiced, amber and benzoin bomb with pine in the background, and it stayed this way for four hours.
When it shifted, the woodiness came through more significantly, and the sweetness turned creamier, milkier, and lightly spiced with more noticeable vanilla. The drydown was barely-spiced vanilla-amber.

Application

For testing, I used 1/3 of a 1ml sample vial dabbed to the underside and topside of my wrist area on my left arm. I used an unscented moisturizer prior to applying the scent as this is also my swatching arm (aka, incredibly parched at any given moment) as I found scent did not hold well here otherwise. 

Longevity

It lasted for seven hours until it was a skin-scent and about 10 hours before it was quite difficult to detect on my skin. The sillage was moderate, while the initial projection was quite heavy, and it dropped to a few inches above my skin after four hours of wear.

Personal Thoughts

It’s a beautiful amber fragrance and well worth a sampling if you haven’t yet found your perfect amber scent. Right now, I’m more enamored with other ambers I’ve tried recently as well as some fragrances I already own that this isn’t something I’m racing out to buy. I’ve set aside the sample to revisit later, though.

Available Sizes

• 50ml for $120
• 0.7ml sample for $4

Where to Buy

• LuckyScent

Pierre Guillaume Paris Peau d'Ambre 28 Perfume Review

Pierre Guillaume Paris Peau d'Ambre 28 Perfume Review