Ambre Blends

Everything from The Status Plant to the perfect white shirt.

Don’t freak out, Ambre fam, but something has changed.

The boldest new house in Indianapolis wraps sustainable concepts in eye-candy design from the couple behind Ambre Blends.

An Avriel Shull pedigree is usually enough of a selling point for one of the Indianapolis architect’s midcentury-modern homes.

Long before Ambre Blends was sold in boutiques across the country and name-checked by Vogue, making organic fragrance oils was merely a hobby for owner and creator Ambre Crockett. That changed in 2003, when Haus Love became the first store to start selling the line. So it made perfect sense that the launch party of […]

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How Ambre Blends fragrances won a cult-like hold on our noses—and boomed into a big-money business

Sure, my drained perfumes are taking up room, collecting dust. But one day I might need my own tether to who I am—and who I was. And there the bottles will sit, my former lives ready to be uncapped and released.