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16 fragrances · Curated for Australia
Vanilla, tobacco, coffee, cinnamon and resin — formerly called orientals. Warm, sweet and unapologetically built for cold weather and evenings.
This is where the gourmands live, and where most compliments are earned. It is also the family most punished by Australian heat: the same amber that feels luxurious at 12°C becomes syrupy at 30°C. Treat the ambers below as autumn and winter purchases, apply one or two sprays rather than four, and they will outperform everything else you own.
Eau de Toilette · Amber & Spicy · Bold
The best-selling masculine fragrance in the world — a peppery, ultra-clean ambroxan blast that is almost impossible to dislike.
Eau de Toilette · Amber & Spicy · Bold
Mint-and-vanilla firepower at a bargain price. The undisputed king of the Australian night out.
Eau de Toilette · Amber & Spicy · Bold
The lavender-vanilla powerhouse in the sailor bottle — a thirty-year-old formula that still outperforms most new releases.
Eau de Toilette · Amber & Spicy · Bold
Spicy cinnamon-leather in a gold bar bottle. Brash, confident and permanently on special somewhere in Australia.
Eau de Toilette · Amber & Spicy · Moderate
Warm tobacco and ginger — a soft, mature amber that works as well in a meeting as over dinner.
Eau de Toilette · Amber & Spicy · Bold
A grenade of pepper, cinnamon and tobacco. The definitive Australian winter fragrance.
Eau de Toilette · Amber & Spicy · Moderate
Cardamom, lavender and cedar in soft focus — widely considered the best date fragrance ever bottled.
Eau de Toilette · Amber & Spicy · Bold
Toasted chestnut and vanilla — a warm, edible gourmand that reliably draws compliments.
Eau de Toilette · Amber & Spicy · Bold
Chocolate-hazelnut and iris over leather — dessert for grown-ups, and a standout cold-weather gourmand.
Eau de Parfum · Amber & Spicy · Bold
The most recognisable luxury fragrance of the decade — a burnt-sugar, saffron and cedar accord that smells like nothing else.
Eau de Parfum · Amber & Spicy · Bold
Black coffee and vanilla — the defining feminine gourmand of the 2010s and a permanent Australian best-seller.
Eau de Parfum · Amber & Spicy · Bold
Tuberose, cacao and coffee in a stiletto bottle — dark, sweet and built for evenings.
Eau de Parfum · Amber & Spicy · Moderate
Lavender and Tahitian vanilla — a smooth, grown-up amber built on Guerlain’s legendary vanilla base.
Eau de Parfum · Amber & Spicy · Bold
The original gourmand — chocolate, caramel and patchouli. Thirty years on, nothing else smells like it.
Eau de Toilette · Amber & Spicy · Bold
Bitter almond and vanilla — a hypnotic, slightly sinister classic that inspired a generation of almond scents.
Eau de Parfum · Amber & Spicy · Bold
Boozy black cherry and almond — the fragrance that started the cherry trend and still does it best.