Super Uniqueīy the way, wormwood is also used to aromatize the legendary green colored drink called absinthe (nicknamed the green fairy).Īnd just like the drink absinthe, Memoir Man is also an acquired taste – something which you learn to appreciate after several full wearings. Now, the reason for Memoir Man’s uniqueness is because it contains a rich green herbal note – acquired from a plant called wormwood. In fact, some people even say it conjures up images of a dark enchanted forest.
This is HUGELY unique: It’s a dark, green, woody, mysterious smelling scent. These are the introductory perfumes but if you find you like these great pleasures await you in the advanced levels.ĭisclosure: This review was based on bottles I own.Memoir Man isn’t for everyone. If you’ve ever been curious about attars this is the best place you could start to explore them.
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Attars also wear very close to the skin making this a perfume that exists for you and those you allow to get close. Attars are among the most concentrated forms of perfume there are and a drop or two goes a long way. In the case of Homage Attar it is rose distilled into a base of oud and sandalwood. Amouage has a selection of incredible attars which are straight distillations of an essential oil into an existing woody base. This is what Amouage stood for when they were founded to revive the Omani tradition of perfumery. Homage Attar is one of the easier to find attars by Amouage. Cavallier also uses a very boozy rum accord with the orris early on before letting ambroxan turn it austere and dry by the end. It works so seamlessly you wonder why it isn’t used more.
Opus V by Jacques Cavallier is part of the Amouage Library Collection it replaces rose with orris as the partner of oud. This is all kept surprisingly light like walking through the woods on a winter’s day. A fabulous camphor laden heart carries into a mix of vetiver, oakmoss, and sandalwood. Mme Vinchon-Spehner starts with an absinthe top surrounded by herbal notes. Memoir Man by Karine Vinchon-Spehner was the pine fragrance I had been waiting for. The notes complement each other quite nicely. Roucel takes an aquatic green accord and mixes it with violet and watermelon. Reflection Woman is not light but it also not as powerful as most of the other Amouage perfumes. Most fruity florals which can also be described as fresh are light. Reflection Woman by Maurice Roucel is fresh the Amouage way.
Jubilation XXV caresses you with a swirl of resinous smoke that comforts. Duchaufour takes everything he had learned about making incense perfumes and creates a modern masterpiece. It is in my estimation one of the finest incense perfumes ever made. Jubilation XXV by Bertrand Duchaufour was one of Mr. Here are the five I would suggest starting with. Even though I believe Amouage puts out some of the most spectacularly intricate fragrances it doesn’t mean there aren’t some good introductory courses in Amouage perfume before taking on the more advanced offerings. I often refer to many Amouage releases as graduate level perfumery. The fact that Amouage doesn’t make perfume for the lowest common denominator is something to be commended. Chong has made Amouage into one of the most consistently artistic of any perfume house you can name. Amouage really transformed itself in 2006 when it hired Christopher Chong as creative director. The original two perfumes created for the brand by perfumer Guy Robert, Gold Man and Gold Woman, would set the brand DNA for the next thirty years. Amouage is an ultra-luxe perfume brand which was founded in 1983, in Oman, to create modern perfumes in the Omani tradition.
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