ambiance vs flavor

ambiance and flavor both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ambiance	Yes	No	No	No
flavor	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, flavor is a hyponym of ambiance; that is, flavor is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than ambiance:

ambiance: a particular environment or surrounding influence
flavor: the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people

ambiance (noun)	flavor (noun)
the atmosphere of an environment	the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
a particular environment or surrounding influence	(physics) the six kinds of quarks
	the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people

ambiance (verb)	flavor (verb)
	lend flavor to