Lyric Man

AMOUAGE LYRIC MAN Daniel Visentin 2008 And some words about Lyric Woman. This pair is a great example how you shouldn’t stare at the genders on the bottle. I would say that the both of them are totally unisex but at least Lyric Man is not more masculine than the women’s counterpart. I have written earlier a review of Woman like the comparison as well of an old formula vs the new one. Those are under Lyric Woman . Some words more of it (new): the more time goes by the more deep, dark, round and polished the juice is. The dark petals of the roses are easier to detect and the base is perfectly blended, the spices are still wrapping everything inside them. I love it more and more very time when I wear it. Lyric Man is a chameleon. When the weather is cold, it’s quite simple scent with citruses and roses and it feels very soapy. You may start to think that it’s feminine or “what a perfect scent for summertime”. But when the summer arrives and the weather gets warmer its personality changes. The whole scent is darker, more mysterious and more unisex. The base of Man smells familiar from Lyric Woman since they share all those 4 base notes which Man has (Musk, Sandalwood, Frankincense and Vanilla). The base creates complexity together with the spices but the overall aroma remains fresh - not exactly like in the cold weather but fresh anyway. Pine continues the freshly green aroma together with Galbanum and together they make a big difference between these two scents. Although the base does not achieve the equivalent complexity with Woman it’s enough to build a beautiful oriental Rose scent. It is simpler mainly because of there is missing the half of the base notes when Musk takes over and a refreshing citrus opening found in Man is enriched in W straight away with Cardamom and Cinnamon. The idea of Lyric Man is the same though: roses in a woody base with Amouage’s signature Francincense, everything covered in a spicy veil. If I describe the scent simply: In cold it's Roses with citruses in a clean musky base. In warm it's fresh spicy roses in distinctly oriental base. If you have been overlooking Lyric Man I recommend you to try it and make sure you experience it’s both amazing facets. Thank you for reading, I hope my review was helpful. I would appreciate a lot if you want to follow me on IG and/or YouTube (English subtitles): @ninamariahperfumes It gives me a lot of motivation to write more. 🤗

Call this Gold Man Lite, or Gold Man Evening. It's a masculine floral, much like Gold Man, although far more restrained I would say. Lyric Man focuses on rose, with an ample dose of musks to give a clean, soapy feel. Whereas Gold Man used white florals and aldehydes, and enough animalics for a zoo, among other things, to give the massively loud impression of a king parading through the streets with layers of flowers at his feet and petals thrown into the air in jubilation, Lyric Man is what that king would smell like at night, alone in his bedroom, reflecting upon and ending his day. It is far more relaxed and intimate than Gold Man, without being a wallflower (no pun intended), managing to be quite emotionally vulnerable yet confident. The hesperidic top notes are instantly detectable upon application and last for a good hour or slightly less, giving a green citrusy freshness, with the heart notes only just peeking through. The king is at the tail end of the day, energetic but winding down. Then the heart and base notes take full effect where the spices are not readily apparent, but the florals certainly are with them sitting on the very noticeable bed of white musks - the feeling of having just washed-up for the evening with a very classy rose soap, and relaxing. As it continues to dry down the woods, vanilla, and frankincense make their presence more known as if it's signaling the end of the evening and it wishes to soothe you to sleep, but yet those earlier energetic emotions have worn off and instead the perfume is creating this feeling of a sort-of psychological weight, contemplative and a bit sad or wistful. This is one of the most emotional and evocative, and complex, masculine rose perfumes I have ever smelled. It is much better than Crimson Rocks in this regard. Crimson Rocks is dark and brooding, but even dark and brooding can still emanate some sort of life, thought, and emotion - which it doesn't. That very important yet missing aspect is the lifeforce of Lyric Man. The regal elegance and profundity that Amouage is so very capable of is executed beautifully in this perfume, but that majestic nobility never distracts from very human vulnerability. I love it.

This is a comparative review between my bottle (2010) and a current sample. How did things change from when a Sultan was honouring his guests with the gift of kings to masstige? I will give you a very short answer comparing my bottle of Lyric man (2010) and the current iteration (sample). The bottle: The illusion of a single, sweet rose in the midst a dry hay-field, bracketed by piercingly dark, strong, green notes, but planted in sweet, dark earth and festooned with creeping tendrils of smoke. And, yet, also, the illusion of a green tunnel of light leading to a glowing, hidden rose in a peppery, woody world that is lightly tinged with vanilla and musk. Here the Sultan gifts us with rock rose (the other two gifts being frankincense and ambregris): The Omani Rockrose (Jabal Rose) is a unique, fragrant mountain rose (Rosa damascena trigintipetala) grown in Oman's Jabal Akhdar mountains, known for its distinct mineral, lemony, and floral scent, hand-harvested for perfumes and rosewater, contrasting with typical roses by thriving in high, cool altitudes and rocky terrain. This rose is Mineral, earthy, floral, with crisp, lemony, and cool notes. The key to understand the scent profile is to take into account the high dosage of angelica that works perfectly with galbanum and pine to give the greeness I was talking about above form where the rock rose emerges. The list of current notes lacks the mistle of the opening that in tandem with the bergamot so to contrast the summery zestines of the latter with the slightly camphoraceous greeness of the latter. At the edges of the rose, I perceive those special spices - ginger, nutmeg, and saffron - that makes the rose very oriental. A gorgeous soft musky base and an esemble of vanilla and a good sandalwood completes the scent. For the record: NO soapyness and no bubble-bath effect from my bottle. Fast forward 2023 and the luxury it is no more the gift of a king. We have a very woody scent full of ISO-E, abrasive and peppery, and just an abstact soft rose. Angelica almost disappear. A clear attempt to make it more "msculine" and the gentleman of 2008 disappear.. Follow me on IG @alexolympia6

Amouage's Lyric Man first came into my possession as a sample card that a kind Ebayer gifted me with the purchase of a decant from a completely different house. Two years since then, and with my sample well-finished long ago, I can only thank this kind person who first introduced me to the house of Amouage. During my continual search for the perfect rose–after Dior's Oud Ispahan, Montale's Highness Rose, Amouage's Homage and Tribute, Xerjoff's Zafar, and Malle's Portrait of a Lady–I remain haunted by this fragrance whose meaning has slowly revealed itself to me like the most cryptic and sacred poem, tinged with rose, pine, and musk. The debate over whether Lyric Man is feminine or not doesn't matter to me much. I will wear anything I like. With that said, the following association ends up reverting back to gender anyways: Lyric Man reminds me of smelling a young woman, fresh out of the shower, who is dressed in a light, flowing camisole and white cotton pajama shorts that do little more than cover a small part of her. She's on your bed, brushing her still wet hair. At some point, you sneak in to give her a kiss on the neck before she falls over, laughing. As you start to travel down her body, from the back of her neck, where you kiss her again, and down her back, your face eventually reaches the softest part of her. You inhale through the thin, white cotton. That's Lyric Man. How this association still permits me to spray myself with glee every time I visit the perfume counter is due to the fact that I don't mind smelling like I've laid in bed with anyone this sweet. One has to love the scent of fresh skin and intimacy. Bereft of the sultriness of romance, of wine and cigarettes and the night, or of mystery and libertarian indulgence, Lyric Man is for the poet who's now alone and ready to compose a few verses for his lover who he and the world can only smell as a memory.

Testing this for the first time today thanks to a generous decant from a friend. Without looking at the notes, here’s my first impression: I can see why it’s been compared with Rose de Jamal, although what stands out now are the differences. Lyric Man is less of a green-minty-fresh rose in the opening, and a bit spicy, almost like it has the tiniest and most pleasant dose of cumin. It then morphs into a somewhat powdery, almost yellow floral tinged beauty of a fresh rose in the mid. Not sweet, not jammy, very realistic. I feel like I can detect some mimosa and perhaps a tiny bit of orange blossom or neroli propping up that incredibly naturally smelling rose. I get some beautiful orris in the base, too. All in all, this is lovely and I’m enjoying wearing it so much. Speaking of Rose de Jamal, I had a chance to wear test it for a second time a couple of weeks ago when it was in the high 80s and 75% humidity. I sat outside for a few hours with it on and enjoyed it immensely. Rose de Jamal absolutely blew me away with how different it smelled than when I tried it in the winter and how much more I loved it. That bitter thing that happened on my skin in the drydown when I wore it in the winter...it didn’t happen at all when I wore it in high heat. And it bloomed (no pun intended) off of my warm skin, totally enveloping me in the most natural, green, rosy, intoxicating bubble. I have trouble with rose dominant perfumes— I’m very picky and I usually don’t like rose-patchoulis or rose-ouds or jammy roses— but I think the fresh, natural smelling, clearly very inspired Rose de Jamal will have to be my first bottle of a rose focused perfume yet. ♥️🌹