flavor vs ambience

flavor and ambience both are nouns.

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

As nouns, ambience is a hypernym of flavor; that is, ambience 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
ambience: a particular environment or surrounding influence

Other hypernyms of flavor include ambiance, atmosphere.

flavor (noun)	ambience (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)	ambience (verb)
lend flavor to