Eau d'Amouage

I adore this! And the bottle is my favourite of all time!! I LOVE the purple, and the shape is.....GORGEOUS!!! Beautiful beautiful beautiful!!! And the perfume is really wonderful! Beautiful vetiver! It's gorgeous and woody, dry and smoky and bitter chocolatey, with gorgeous flowers and fruit all mixed in to a perfect concoction, which I relish and adore!!! It's perfect. Delicious, smooth and creamy, with a fabulous bitter edge, and a glorious dry-down that lasts for ages, and the fruit and flowers pop in and out all the way through it. It's delightful and feminine and juicy and dry - amazing perfume!!! It's fabulous!!! It's almost my favourite - definitely in my top 5!!!

It's gorgeous and SO is the bottle!!!

This is very different to the other fragrances I have tried from Amouage (Gold, Dia, Lyric, Jubilation, Reflection). This one is very fruity to me - it really does smell of peach, papaya and mango at first - like a fruit smoothie! That is not to say that it is your average fruity floral - its quality is immediately apparent, and unlike a lot of mass-produced frags it has depth. With time the amber and sandalwood in the base become more apparent and are soft and comfortable, and it is long-lasting. A very nice fragrance for the spring and summer.

Amouage EAU D'AMOUAGE opens somewhat fruitily and then swiftly becomes an entirely pleasant and inoffensive, light, slightly woody, floriental scent. I do not find this composition to be succulent and juicy (à la Balmain EAU D'AMAZONIE) nor deeply, intoxicatingly oriental (à la __________--fill in the blank...). EAU D'AMOUAGE seems to me like a fragrance that is trying very hard not to offend but in doing so fails to impress. I've been spraying this on all day attempting to find some redeeming quality, but in the end it seems only okay. Désolée.

“Floriental” - Top notes: peach, papaya and mango Middle notes: peony, magnolia and ylang-ylang Base notes: sandalwood, amber, musk and vetiver Smells clean but on my skin it’s too syrupy-spicy mature-smelling. Something I’d imagine a senior citizen wearing sitting next to me in church. Bright red lipstick, large hat. I think it’s the amber, musk, and vetiver that brings it there. Definitely not for me. Wouldn’t appreciate smelling this on someone in a crowd or in the office. Probably a big hit for the bingo crowd though 😉