Selected family
Amber / Musk
- Common textures
- warm · radiating · skin-like
- Sensory language
- resinous accords, musks, dry amber woods
- Common confusion
- Amber, ambergris and Ambroxan are not synonyms.
Lesson 02 · relationships, not boxes
Fragrance families overlap. That is the useful part.
A family names a fragrance’s dominant character. It does not lock every fragrance into one permanent box.
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Use families to find a starting neighborhood. Then notice the textures, contrasts and neighboring families that make a fragrance more specific.
Choose one family. Watch its nearest neighbors come forward.
The background suggests the scent territory; the lines show useful overlap, not a universal law.