flavour vs ambience

flavour and ambience both are nouns.

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

As nouns, ambience is a hypernym of flavour; that is, ambience is a word with a broader meaning than flavour:

flavour: 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 flavour include ambiance, atmosphere.

flavour (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

flavour (verb)	ambience (verb)
lend flavor to