Amouage · 2024 · Bertrand Duchaufour

Reasons

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Amouage says

You’ll smell cardamom, hazelnut, cinnamon, Schinus Molle, patchouli, pine, Cashmeran, amber, cypriol, davana, benzoin, cistus, sandalwood, cedarwood, vetiver, myrrh, oakmoss, musks and Palo Santo.

The house’s page

Top notesthe first minutes

Heartthe first hours

Dry-downhours later

Reasons’s scent picture, a draft: cardamom, hazelnut, cinnamon, patchouli, pine, cashmeran drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top notesthe first minutes

Reasons, top notes: cardamom, hazelnut, cinnamon

Heartthe first hours

Reasons, heart: Patchouli, pine, Cashmeran, cypriol, davana

Dry-downhours later

Reasons, dry-down: Benzoin, Cistus, Sandalwood, Cedar, Vetiver, myrrh, Oakmoss, Musks, palo-santo, virginia-cedar, Iso E Super, Vanillin

On the label

What’s inside it

21 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

2 citrus3 herbs & lavender4 florals5 woods1 sweet4 spices1 musks1 powder

Citrus2

LimoneneCitral

Herbs & lavender3

Linalyl acetateLinaloolTerpineol

Florals4

Amyl cinnamalFarnesolGeraniolGeranyl acetate

Woods5

Cedarwood oilPatchouli oilSandalwood oilSantalolIso E Super (pencil shavings)

Sweet1

Vanillin (vanilla)

Spices4

Cinnamon bark oilEugenolIsoeugenolCinnamal

Musks1

Galaxolide (clean linen)

Powder1

Anise alcohol

Not in Ingredients yet5

Isoeugenyl acetate, not in Ingredients yetBeta-caryophyllene, not in Ingredients yetPinene, not in Ingredients yetTerpinolene, not in Ingredients yetAlpha-terpinene, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell2

AlcoholBenzyl benzoate

Named by Amouage, never on a label

CardamomHazelnut, not in Ingredients yetPineCashmeran (cashmeran)CypriolDavanaBenzoinCistusVetiverMyrrhOakmossMusks, not in Ingredients yetPalo Santo

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: 21 scent ingredients on this label. A shared name, not a shared smell.