Amouage · 2025 · Quentin Bisch

Decision

VersionEau de Parfum

Amouage says

You’ll smell Pink Pepper, bergamot, cardamom, frankincense, juniper, myrrh, patchouli, cedarwood and vanilla.

The house’s page

Top notesthe first minutes

Heartthe first hours

Dry-downhours later

Decision’s scent picture, a draft: pink pepper, bergamot, cardamom, frankincense, juniper, myrrh drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top notesthe first minutes

Decision, top notes: Pink pepper, Bergamot, cardamom

Heartthe first hours

Decision, heart: Frankincense, juniper, myrrh

Dry-downhours later

Decision, dry-down: Patchouli, Cedar, Vanilla, Iso E Super

On the label

What’s inside it

14 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

3 citrus3 herbs & lavender2 florals3 woods1 sweet2 spices

Citrus3

Bergamot oilLimoneneCitral

Herbs & lavender3

Linalyl acetateLinaloolTerpineol

Florals2

Rose ketonesGeranyl acetate

Woods3

Patchouli oilCedarwood oilIso E Super (pencil shavings)

Sweet1

Vanillin (vanilla)

Spices2

EugenolIsoeugenol

Not in Ingredients yet4

Pinene, not in Ingredients yetBeta-caryophyllene, not in Ingredients yetTerpinolene, not in Ingredients yetAlpha-terpinene, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell2

AlcoholWater

Named by Amouage, never on a label

Pink PepperCardamomFrankincenseJuniperMyrrhVanilla

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Wearers say

How far it carries

Perfumers call it sillage.

Close to the skin

An arm’s length

Across a room

Not researched yet. We gather wearers’ reports for the most popular perfumes first.

Our match of the labels

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Counted from the printed lists: 14 scent ingredients on this label. A shared name, not a shared smell.