The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
Yasuni Amber is a 2026 composition from Luca Gritti, part of the Ivy collection. The name points to the Yasuní region of Ecuador, and the sources describe it as born in the depths of the Ecuadorian rainforest. Gritti translates that kind of depth into scent, and the result leans on amber, tobacco, and smoke to carry the weight of the composition. There's a tactile quality to the juice, something you feel on the wrist before you name it. Each spritz opens with a flash of cool brightness that gives way almost immediately to resinous warmth, and the smoke runs underneath like a current, never rising to the surface but always there. It's a scent that asks you to lean in rather than step back, and it rewards patience with layers that keep unfolding for hours.
What makes Yasuni Amber interesting is how it opens. A scent with this much amber and tobacco weight comes in through cooling lavender and bergamot, not through the obvious tropical or sweet route. The warmth builds from the middle and base, with amber doing most of the pulling, tobacco adding a leafy, dry texture, and geranium and nutmeg giving the heart a subtle dusty edge. The gourmand elements (vanilla, caramel) ground the composition without tipping into syrupy territory, keeping the sweetness functional rather than decorative.
The evolution
The first 30 minutes belong to the lavender and bergamot, and they're sharper than you'd expect from a fragrance this weighted. Cool, slightly herbal, with the orange keeping it from feeling like cologne. By the 90-minute mark the tobacco and amber have moved in, and the composition turns dense. The nutmeg adds a quiet bite underneath, like cinnamon left in a glass. From hour three onward, the base takes over and doesn't let go. Vanilla and caramel soften the cedarwood, and the smoke weaves through everything like a memory. As the hours pass, the sweetness recedes and the woody, resinous elements come forward, with the smoke staying consistent through the late stages. By the end of a full wearing, what remains on skin is a warm blend of wood, faint vanilla, and that persistent trail of smoke, still very much present and recognizable well into the next day.
Cultural impact
Yasuni Amber has drawn comparisons to honey-tobacco compositions that share its warmth-to-spice balance, and reviewers have pointed to Xerjoff's Naxos as a familiar reference point. Where it sets itself apart is the way it uses smoke, weaving it through every layer rather than reserving it for a single phase. The result is a scent that reads as both familiar and its own thing, with the smoke profile giving it a character that distinguishes it from honeyed tobaccos that stay purely gourmand.
