flavor vs ambiance

flavor and ambiance both are nouns.

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

As nouns, ambiance is a hypernym of flavor; that is, ambiance is a word with a broader meaning than flavor:

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

Other hypernyms of flavor include ambience, atmosphere.

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

flavor (verb)	ambiance (verb)
lend flavor to