First wearing of this one tonight. Put it on at home after the gym, which honestly feels like the perfect setting to really sit with it and figure out what’s going on. I picked up a very low partial from a friend specifically because I wanted to get my nose on a fragrance showcasing real ambergris, especially paired with immortelle. And this is definitely not “amber” in the typical warm, sweet, vanilla and resin sense. It’s salty, mineralic, slightly marine and musky with this dry, almost honeyed hay quality from the immortelle. There’s an organic skinlike quality running through it that makes it smell incredibly natural. I can absolutely understand why some people get a little funk from the ambergris. There’s a slightly animalic, almost dirty edge hiding underneath everything. For me, that’s what makes it addicting. I keep going back to smell it because it never feels completely clean, sweet, fresh or dirty. It lives somewhere between all of them. This feels like something I’d wear when I’m not necessarily trying to smell conventionally good or mass appealing. Quiet night out, dinner, a date where I want to wear something interesting, or even exactly what I’m doing tonight, wearing it at home just because I want to experience it. I also think warmer weather could make that salty ambergris really come alive. This is exactly the type of fragrance that could eventually earn a spot in my collection because it actually adds something different instead of giving me another variation of something I already own. Am I buying a bottle yet? No. Even discounted, I’m looking at around $250 for 50ml, and with the size of my collection that just doesn’t make sense right now. But am I finishing every drop of this partial before making that final decision? Absolutely.