In addition to the Art Parfums of the Collection, we are pleased to introduce Solid Cream Perfumes (Creme Parfum) with natural ingredients. These scents are the perfect addition to your already well stocked perfume collection and an excellent choice for the ones who want a non alcohol based fragrance. The perfume jars are practical for slipping into a pocket or purse, and using for on-the-go freshness. The line of Solid Cream Perfumes are excellent worn by themselves, but will make wonderful deep and enticing scents when layered with fragrance oils and Art Parfum sprays.
WHAT IS THE SCENT PROFILE OF BLACK AMBERGRIS
If you like our Black Ambergris, Indian Ocean, you will love the Solid Cream Perfume of the same amazing scent. It goes on smooth, with the same vivid, refreshing, oceanic sweet scent as our Black Ambergris, Indian Ocean oil. The natural licorice like herbal top note mellows down into the sweet, slightly oceanic anlimalic 'basement like mildewy' muskiness that will stay on your skin for a very long time.
Perfumer's Note: Black ambergris is the rawest form of ambergris, which means that it lacks the overtly sweet note like that of the golden and white ambergris varieties, hence it tends to be less expensive on the market. The defining character of black ambergris is similar to that of tar or pitch. The essences of note is oceanic, animalic fecal, mildewy, sour, bittersweet, musky, sharp, penetrating and naturally spicy similar to that of dried cloves.
This is a robust bold fragrance best suited for those who prefer perfumes that have animalic oceanic dark notes such as opium, cistus, opomax, labdanum or pepper, and who are not intimidated by such a distinguished and assertive fragrance. Truly a scent to add variety to the connoisseur's already well stocked repertoire of fine essential essences. Lastly, it is sweet, but is the least sweet of them all. In addition, as it is a complex scent all on its own, it also blends well with leather notes, woody notes and floral notes, adding an evocative, aphrodisiac and addictive character to fine essences... olfactory pleasure par excellence.
The Black Ambergris oil, named "Indian Ocean", was offered exclusively by Agarscents Bazaar back in 2006 as it was designed and composed using an authentic recipe by Sharif LaRoche for the LaRoche Collection. The Original cannot be compared to the many copycats and versions that has followed after its launch - the character, high quality and uniqueness remains unparalleled.
WHAT IS AMBERGRIS AND WHERE IS IT FOUND
Due to sperm whale's inability to digest sharp squid beaks, it produces ambergris, an intestinal secretion which protects the stomach lining of the whale. This secretion hardens and is expelled as waste by the whale and can be found floating in the waters where the sperm whales reside; off the coasts of Africa, New Zealand, the Mid East and South East Asia. Since the demand of rare ambergris far outweighs the production - only a mere 1% of the male sperm whales produce ambergris - finding genuine ambergris washed ashore will soon be a thing of the past.
WHAT ARE THE AMBERGRIS FLOAT MARKET PRICE BY THE GRAM
$30-35 for White or Gray Ambergris, $20-25 Golden, $10-15 for Black Ambergris
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The Perfumer said, if true ambergris and musk was so cheap and readily available at the current prices that these are being sold for, compared to the actual market price, he would buy from these online sellers himself enough of each to fill a bath tub and bathe in it twice a day, interchanging between ambergris and musk.
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WHAT DOES AMBERGRIS LOOK AND SMELL LIKE
Ambergris is found in lumps of various shapes and sizes, weighing from ½ oz (14 g) to 100 or more pounds (45.36 or more kg). When initially expelled by or removed from the whale, the fatty precursor of ambergris is pale white in color (sometimes streaked with black), soft in consistency, with a strong fecal smell. Following months to years of photo-degradation and oxidation in the ocean, this precursor gradually hardens, developing a dark gray or black color, a crusty and waxy texture, and a peculiar odor that is at once sweet, earthy, marine, and animalic. Its smell has been described by many as a vastly richer and smoother version of isopropanol without its stinging harshness.
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