Ember
Note Profile
About
Ember is a fantasy note: a fire that has gone out but is still hot. It smells of smoke without flame, settling into resin, vanilla and warm spice. It is softer and sweeter than burning wood and warmer than charcoal.
Scent Profile
Smoky leads but at a warm register, glowing rather than acrid. Amber_resinous is the second voice and does the real work: labdanum and balsam warmth that stops the smoke reading as ash. Dry_woody carries the spent-log body. Warm_spice is clove, cinnamon, ginger and black pepper, named in both builds found. Sweet_vanillic is the vanilla and tonka both builds finish on. Tobacco_hay is the cured-leaf facet one build opens with outright. Earthy is patchouli and cooled ground. Below the naming line: a small leather rasp, a mineral hot-stone trace, dried fruit, a creamy_woody sandalwood softness and a honeyed edge.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
Origin
No single material. Builds that carry the name reach the same place from different directions. One uses labdanum, vetiver, patchouli, frankincense, black pepper, cardamom and ambrette. Another uses tobacco, dried fruit, ginger, clove, cinnamon, tonka and bourbon vanilla. Trade descriptions of the smoky accord family name glowing embers as one of its registers, alongside dry wood smoke, incense, burnt leaves and tobacco.
Usage in Perfumery
A base accord for cosy, autumnal and hearth-themed compositions. Resins are what keep it from reading as simply burnt or ashy, so it is built resin-first and smoke-second. It sits under tobacco, dried fruit and gourmand materials, which turn the smoke towards toasted sweetness.
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Perfumes featuring Ember
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