Amouage · 2026 · Annick Menardo

Overture 41

VersionExtrait de Parfum

Amouage says

You’ll smell frankincense, saffron, calvados, cinnamon, benzoin, Rose Centifolia, geranium, Sandalwood Drèches, vanilla, labdanum, patchouli and leather.

The house’s page

Top notesthe first minutes

Heartthe first hours

Dry-downhours later

Overture 41’s scent picture, a draft: frankincense, saffron, cinnamon, benzoin, rose, geranium drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top notesthe first minutes

Overture 41, top notes: Frankincense, saffron, cinnamon, Bergamot, Sweet orange

Heartthe first hours

Overture 41, heart: Benzoin, Rose, Geranium, Sandalwood

Dry-downhours later

Overture 41, dry-down: Vanilla, Cistus, Patchouli, Leather glove, Iso E Super

On the label

What’s inside it

24 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

4 citrus3 herbs & lavender7 florals3 woods1 sweet1 amber & resins4 spices1 powder

Citrus4

Bergamot oilLimoneneBitter orange oilCitral

Herbs & lavender3

LinaloolLinalyl acetateTerpineol

Florals7

Geranium oilRose oilCitronellolGeranyl acetateBenzyl salicylateGeraniolRose ketones

Woods3

Patchouli oilIso E Super (pencil shavings)Vertofix

Sweet1

Vanillin (vanilla)

Amber & resins1

Benzyl cinnamate

Spices4

EugenolCinnamon bark oilCinnamalIsoeugenol

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)

Not in Ingredients yet7

Beta-caryophyllene, not in Ingredients yetPinene, not in Ingredients yetTrimethylcyclopentenyl methylisopentenol, not in Ingredients yetCarvone, not in Ingredients yetDimethyl phenethyl acetate, not in Ingredients yetTerpinolene, not in Ingredients yetAlpha-terpinene, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell5

AlcoholWaterOctisalate (a UV filter)Benzyl benzoateBenzyl alcohol

Named by Amouage, never on a label

FrankincenseSaffronBenzoinSandalwood DrèchesVanillaLabdanumLeather, 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: 24 scent ingredients on this label. A shared name, not a shared smell.