Giorgio Armani
Giorgio Armani
121 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The lavender announces itself with crisp, almost herbal clarity, but within moments the amber-vanilla coalition launches its takeover. You're hit with something honeyed and warm, the bourbon vanilla already asserting its presence rather than waiting for permission.
The composition's true character emerges as the woody base surfaces, creating a sophisticated interplay between creamy sweetness and dry, almost sandalwood-like minerals. The spice becomes more pronounced here, adding a gentle peppery warmth that prevents the heart from feeling cloying, whilst the amber rounds everything into a cohesive, ambered mass.
The fragrance settles into a persistent amber-vanilla skin scent, increasingly woody and slightly more austere, with the bourbon vanilla taking on a softer, almost caramelised quality. What remains is remarkably intimate—close to the skin, warm, and lingering long after visual presence has faded.
Stronger With You Amber is Cécile Matton's unapologetic pivot toward the gourmand—a fragrance that treats sweetness not as a whisper but as its constitutional foundation. The Provençal lavender in the opening arrives almost as an apology, a gesture toward restraint that immediately crumbles beneath the weight of what follows. This is amber as a delivery vehicle for bourbon vanilla, the kind of pairing that doesn't merely smell like dessert but rather smells like the decision to abandon restraint entirely.
What distinguishes this from the parade of identical vanilla-amber fragrances is the woody spine running beneath everything—a structural element that prevents the composition from collapsing into one-dimensional sweetness. The spice accord (clocking in at 88% prominence) manifests not as conventional warmth but as friction: subtle peppery notes that create textural contrast against the creamy, almost custard-like vanilla base. It's this tension that gives the fragrance personality.
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