Amouage · 2010 · Daniel Maurel & Dorothée Piot

Memoir Woman

VersionEau de Parfum

Amouage says

You’ll smell mandarin, cardamom, absinth, Pink Pepper, pepper, Clove Bud, Opulent White Blossoms, rose, jasmine, Precious Dark Wood, frankincense, styrax, oakmoss, castoreum, leather, labdanum, fenugreek and musk.

The house’s page

Top notesthe first minutes

Heartthe first hours

Dry-downhours later

Memoir Woman’s scent picture, a draft: mandarin, cardamom, pink pepper, black pepper, clove, rose drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top notesthe first minutes

Memoir Woman, top notes: Mandarin, cardamom, Pink pepper

Heartthe first hours

Memoir Woman, heart: Black pepper, clove, Rose, Jasmine, Frankincense

Dry-downhours later

Memoir Woman, dry-down: styrax, Oakmoss, Castoreum, Leather glove, Cistus, fenugreek, Musk, Coumarin

On the label

What’s inside it

12 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender4 florals1 sweet1 amber & resins2 spices1 powder

Citrus2

LimoneneCitral

Herbs & lavender1

Linalool

Florals4

Benzyl salicylateFarnesolGeraniolCitronellol

Sweet1

Coumarin (tonka)

Amber & resins1

Benzyl cinnamate

Spices2

EugenolIsoeugenol

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)

Not in Ingredients yet1

Cinnamyl alcohol, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell3

AlcoholBenzyl benzoateBenzyl alcohol

Named by Amouage, never on a label

MandarinCardamomPink PepperPepperClove BudRoseJasmineFrankincenseStyraxOakmossCastoreum, not in Ingredients yetLeather, not in Ingredients yetLabdanumFenugreekMusk, not in Ingredients yet

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.

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Counted from the printed lists: 12 scent ingredients on this label. A shared name, not a shared smell.