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When Mandy Aftel announced her latest fragrance, Aftelier<\/a> Amber Tapestry, she billed it as a \u201ccomfort scent.\u201d I heard \u201camber\u201d and \u201ccomfort,\u201d and I anticipated a real snickerdoodle of a perfume \u2014 a thick, golden, spicy, chewy scent cookie. (Not that this is bad! Set me in front of a pile of snickerdoodles and watch me go.) Yes, Amber Tapestry is warm and resinous with a touch of cinnamon, but cookies don\u2019t pack jasmine, and lots of it. This could be a floral perfume lover\u2019s new favorite oriental fragrance.<\/p>\n Amber Tapestry\u2019s notes include yellow mandarin, jasmine grandiflorum, jasmine sambac, pear, heliotropin, labdanum, ambreine, cinnamon, coumarin, maltol, benzoin, ambergris and castoreum. Just to head off concerns, the pear isn\u2019t discernable as fruit salad, and the cinnamon, while faintly noticeable, doesn\u2019t give Amber Tapestry a gourmand vibe.<\/p>\n Amber Tapestry\u2019s foundation is sweet warmth with a bare hint of dirtiness grounding it, like tasting a few coffee grounds at the bottom of a smooth latte, or sussing out the animal when smelling a leather glove. It\u2019s smooth and baby-skin-soft, with the slightly chewy texture benzoin gives.<\/p>\n Woven into this foundation are thick swaths of jasmine. Sometimes jasmine is tingly and diffusive, but here it smells almost grass green, as if Amber Tapestry\u2019s body absorbed the jasmine\u2019s vaporous bits to leaven it. As a whole, the fragrance holds together in a pleasant alto range with a bit of the resonance of castoreum\u2019s baritone. Unlike many amber-centric perfumes, Amber Tapestry has enough floral “space” in it to wear well in spring, too.<\/p>\n Amber Tapestry Eau de Parfum lasts about two hours on me before I feel the need to boost it with another spritz. Yesterday at work, I carried the sample vial in my pocket and sprayed it on a few times during the day. It was lovely and grounding, but not obtrusive. And, yes, it was comforting.<\/p>\n What kinds of fragrances comfort you?<\/p>\n Aftelier Amber Tapestry Eau de Parfum is $180 for 30 ml, and Amber Tapestry Parfum is $50 for 2 ml and $180 for 8 ml. For information on where to buy it, see Aftelier under Perfume Houses<\/a>.<\/p>\nPossibly of interest<\/h2>\n