Prada Amber pour Homme (2006)
by Prada

Not the special, anti-designer fragrance it was toted to be—far from sophisticated. Certainly Amber is not aquatic, fresh, or even citric, but it is rather more of a mish-mash fougere that goes nowhere fast. Most reviewers cite a beautiful, rich, even expensive soapiness from hotel soap. Dare I ask what kinds of hotels they frequent? All in all, a cut above the usual riff-raff of designer fragrances—just not every far above.

The notes here are kind of hard to decipher, but as others have more or less said, it can be described overall as a smooth and lush combination of sugary-sweet soap and suede, over an extremely magnetic musk called Nirvanolide. Truly soft and comforting, yet sexy and modern, Prada Amber smells like a trendy and clean person’s apartment. It's just one of those fragrances that you have to go out and try, as it's almost impossible to get a feel for it by simply reading reviews - it's that unique that it can't really be imagined without smelling it first. While it does smell pretty synthetic, fortunately it only gets annoying for me if I spray too much. Otherwise, it's pretty sheer and light.

It may sound weird, but I feel compelled to mention that the suede note kind of smells like my dog a bit, but like many dog owners do, I love the smell of my dog and so I also love the smell of Prada Amber. A modern classic and something unique and sexy among the thousands of mundane and repetitive releases these days.

8.5/10

Barber shop at its BEST. Its what I would expect a mens barber shoppe to smell!!! If you take mens Pinaud Aftershave strip it of the alcohol and replace it with bergamot, cardamom, neroli, geranium, orange blossom, leather, patchouli, sandalwood, myrrh, nirvanolide musk, vetiver, tonka bean, vanilla, saffron, labdanum, mandarin. This juice is incredible. The scent dries down and stays with you for hours. If you really draw back you find the amber appeal. This is very smooth and clean.

I really wanted this one to work. It reminds me of artificial grape stuff--(ie gum). it does not really smell like grape, it is what I would picture a grape barber soap to smell like. its like someone is trying to put a new artificial spin on something natural. This one really irritated my skin. I felt like my skin was burning. I originally bought this for my brother for christmas, but returnd it after the aftershave was destroying my skin in fear of the same effects on him. John Varvatos Rock 1 is fairly similar to this one, only not as long lasting. If you really like the barbershop smell, go for Givenchy Very Irresistible Fresh Attitude, it is what a new age barbersoap scent should smell like.
Overall, I liked this fragrance but it worked horribly on my own skin :/

To me, complete waste of time and money.

Light oriental with fresh balsamic structure. Nothing especially masculine here, could easily be worn by women if they like. The smell reminds me of some cheap subtly scented lotion.

Utterly boring simple blend that is extremely vague to my nose. It is smooth and well balanced I admit that, but without any depth or vividness and most importantly; the actual aroma has not a single compelling nuance to it whatsoever. Just a big massive *bleh.*

It is hard for me to see how anyone with exciting taste could be intrigued by this, really. That’s why it has been a bit confusing to read some of the reviews, because there are one or two people showing their thumbs up; one or two people whose taste I have always been keen to.

I presume there is a slight chance that this would grow a bit on me if I tested it more, but it would never be worth the full bottle at all.

And after all, I am NOT even interested in testing this anymore. We have met enough times in this life.

This is not the worst fragrance in the world naturally, but the thing is that I could easily name 500 fragrances for me personally that I find more interesting than this, and by the way, that list would include Prada Intense (Women) that is also very much wearable by men…

This fragrance is extremely unusual. The relationship I have with it can best be described as a guy who has a girlfriend witha bad personality but doesn't want to leave her because of how good looking she is. Prada Amber smells beautiful but after 30 minuntes I start the feel sick in my stomach. Everytime I breathe in when wearing this fragrance, my stomach churns and I start to feel nauseous. And this happens everytime I test it from Sephora. I'm currently in the process of testing this fragrance over and over but the fact that it keeps making me sick puts up a barrier for me. I really don't want to give up on Prada Amber because it does put me in a mood of nostalgia and reminds me of some fond memories but at the same time after 30 min I end up getting sick. I give this fragrance a thumbs up because it smells too good to pass up.