The Library Collection Opus V

Oh boy, another Amouage I love. Very different to the others I love from Amouage tho. Much more powdery, but finally, finally a powdery scent I can wear and actually thoroughly enjoy! The Iris in the early stages reminds me of the iris in L`Artisan Traversee du Bosphore, that lingering sweetness, not nearly as intense as Traversee here though yet certainly present. The surrounding notes in Opus V make those familiar Iris aspects a little more incensed though - and very slightly smoky in character. I think we are talking about the Oud in Opus vs Leather in Traversee here, as oud and leather notes can give off similar effect as note descriptors occasionally - which is perhaps what's bringing the familiarity. A slight leatheryness. But this is so much more than Traversee. There's much, much more complexity here. The florals playing with the other notes bringing in a soft sensuality, the oud also a light tanginess. That slight bit of animalic lingering in the background adding complexity. All dancing and playing together harmoniously with the Iris who plays centre stage to all of these notes. The Iris being the main player and yet so complimentary and in no way oppressive to the rest. More a state of constant interaction with the other notes drawing the best from them yet still remaining centre to them. Very complimentary. For me, the rum aspects tend to become more noticeabe after about 1.5 to 2 hrs into the drydown where the notes sort of meld together somewhat and produce a mild rummy sweetness. It's very nice actually and adds to the complexity. I still have that leathery iris but it's a little less obvious at this stage. A little more melded in. Amazing stuff here folks! It's one you really have to wear to fully appreciate. Words aren't always sufficient enough to encapsulate this kind of tapestried beauty. It's to be experienced! It's all pleasure, all Amouage and all good! (...ok sounds like a buy line but if you've experienced the kind of tapestried love Amouage is capable of delivering you'll know exactly where I'm coming from :) This is highly wearable for a male as well, and indeed also very unisex. Take part my friends and experience this one, it's really rather brilliant!

After reading all previous reviews, especially the ones describing disappointment, I came to conclusion that this must be one of this fragrances which development is HIGHLY dependent on skin chemistry. On some it will simply stink. On other it will turn into heaven. I'm in the lucky group whose skins chemistry agrees with Opus V. On my skin Opus V smells divine. It radiates warmth and comfort from my wrists which I cannot stop smelling and makes me think about sitting in a garden on a summer evening in August just after sunset but before dusk. It has a very light 'metallic' note which gives the drydown a kind of sharpness, but still it's a warm sharpness. I think it will be perfect for summer and I cannot wait to get a full bottle of Opus V! This is one of my ever favourites, it's been now in my cupboard for over 10 months. I really like the way it smells on me. However this is only my individual perception - my colleague at work asked me once if I can smell 'something weird and medicinal' - I figured he was referring to my perfume, so I presented my wrist with a question: This? 'Oh yeah!' and then he wrinkled his nose. We both started to laugh. The point of my story is that I really dislike people saying: this perfume is horrible. It's horrible for YOU. It doesn't suit YOU. YOU dislike it. But please, don't generalise: after all it's only YOUR subjective opinion. Paraphrasing the saying (I cannot remember literally): Somebody's heaven is somebody else's hell'

Well! According to the shop assistant I was only 'allowed' to try two of these! She believes from the couple of times I've been in (pffft!) that she 'knows what I like..and these two will be the ones' I'm a perfume lover...I'll try them all thank you very much! She was referring to Opus V and Opus III BTW which are quite different, maybe it was the ones she likes...who knows? I've got a sample vial of Opus VII and it's plain outrageous... It should be called 'Omen' instead of Opus I think as it has a devilish opening which actually turns into a great drydown. So that's my experience of the Library collection so far...I'm getting through them steadily. As for this one Opus V I have to say it's very pleasant and has some the complexity I've come to expect from Amouage but maybe not as much in this collection generally. It's a sweet one this with a top note of iris which is pleasant can't say I found it all that boozy which is a plus. Opus V is alright by me...It has a gentle vibe to it. Having got a proper sample to wear now I can conclude that this is my favourite of the Opus collection. Only slight contrary to what I said above it is boozy, in the best kind of way though...rum & wood this is absolutely what I'm about and it's super sweet with iris. I actually really love this and didn't think any of the Opus library collection would tempt me to buy but this one satisfies my sweet tooth so I might just have to get it.

The best example for development in the perfumery world. And the best examples for a synthetic perfume. It is not fully synthetic but it has a huge amount of synthetic molecules. Pure balance and beauty. And this was the inspiration for the perfume. In the past libraries and books are the reference for the information but today internet and digital libraries are the first reference for knowledges. Former director for Amouage Christopher Chounge wants to presents that development in a perfume. The Famous OPUS V by Jacques Cavallier. One of the latests Cavallier creation the I really love. Musky Powdery Floral Woody Pure white brighting full with salicylates (molecules with clean sweet silky floral charismatic). In the first impression you will think it's a simple blend, Vice versa. Imagine flat plains covered with snow you think its empty but with focusing you will start seeing a snowman a polar bear and white rabbits. Thats scene was full with lives. Brighting and delightful opened non-indolic white flowers mixed with clean earth orris accord. Silky powdery with wet florals impression like a water jars fully with floral petals a Jacques Cavallier DNA with most of his perfumes with soft cardamom touches. The basenote are drier sandalwoody rich too much white musk and a little animalic musk so its more clean than dirty.

مرحبا بعشاق العطور ✨، مرحبا بعشاق أمواج 🌊.. اكتشفت Opus V لأول مرة مع صديق مقرب لي💫، حينها ألفتت إنتباهي 😲 رائحة البهارات🏺 الممزوجة بالرم 🍷 و باقة زهور بهية 💐 و أخشاب طرية مما جعل المزيج متناغما و محسنا للمزاج، لذلك لجأت لظمه لمجموعتي العطرية، فلا شيء يماثل التأثير الفوري الذي رسمه العطر على قسمات وجهي. #opusv هو بالتأكيد أحد أفضل عطور خط مجموعة المكتبة الخاص بدار أمواج📚. جعلني العطر أحس بانتعاشة أقنعتني بأن هذا العطر هو الترياق الناجع لارتواء ظمئي..🏝️ أغمضت عيناي 🙈 واستنشقت عبيره الرطب الذي يذكرني بأجواء من طفولتي عند زيارة أحد أقربائي، تمدد منعش للغاية، رسمي و فريد من نوعه. إنه مزيج من الرم 🍷 و السوسن والجلد و خلاصات خشبية مختلفة و جرعة حيوانية طفيفة من قط الزباد. هناك من سيجد العطر نسائي، لكن ملاحظة الرم 🍷 بالنسبة لي أكسبته هوية الجنسين على حد سواء. إذا كنت تحب رائحة السوسن الترابي، فهذه رائحة جيدة بلمسة من العود الخفيف. الورد 🌹 هنا يضيف فقط مسحة فاكهية مائية، و هذه التفاصيل دائما ما تجعلني أحترم العطر و العطار. عطر آسر للغاية! أداؤه نووي🔥، أنصح به، و بشدة 💜 — دمت قارئا، و دام العطر رفيقك 🌹. _____________________________________________ للمزيد من التقارير المرجو زيارة صفحتي عبر الأنستغرام Luxe_cologne_reviews مودتي ❤️ _____________________________________________

Hello Fragrance enthusiasts, I first introduced to Opus V with one of my close friends. I honestly didn't like it back then but when gave it is time and smell it again in a boutique I completely changed my feelings towards it. I started loving the smell of spices mixed with rum and bunch of flowers mixed together. The wood also played a fantastic role in this particular fragrance to create this fabulous combination. The fragrance became my favorite and I've started using it as my signature scent. I got a lot of compliments on it and people started noticing me around by only smelling this perfume. The passion to Amouage house has developed more and more and I've started wondering around the other perfume of the collection and other lines maybe. I loved the oriental incense mixed up with Leathers and woods and other fabulous combinations. Opus V is absolutely one of the best perfume I have ever owned. It's so refreshing so formal and unique. It is a blend of rum and iris and leather and different kinds of woods and a little animalc note from civetta. It has a fantastic projection and very long lasting. I would give it 10/10 With Love,

Arguably the lightest of the entire OPUS range and surprisingly pleasant. Not a "wow" though, rather more intriguingly gentle, docile, soft and tender. I find it rather suitable for summer which is rare, considering most AMOUAGE scents are so heavy they can only really be used in the colder time of year. We have a very cool and wet opening with Rum and Orris Root, two very on trend ingredients. The floral bursts following are a wet iris and a morning rose: not a rose in full bloom oozing its potent pollinator calling siren, more of a subtle wet rose on a cool morning. Later on the creamy vanilla waxy sweetness of rum and dry woods return to give it a warmer depth. It reminds me a bit of AZZARO "Acteur" which was a rather revolutionary fragrance in the late 80ies/ early 90ies which I wore with great enthusiasm. This could be a great alternative to those who do not like the louder "Reflection"! Surprisingly pleasant and light.

أعلم وتعلمون أصدقائي أن أمواج تستخدم انقى المواد واغلاها واثمنها في عالم العطور، هذا النقاء والبهاء يتجلى في هذا العطر، من أنقى ما مر على أنفي، خفيف لطيف مريح هاديء، لا تشعر أن هذا هذا العطر يملك هذه القوة والجبروت في أدائه وثباته وفوحانه، كثير من العطور تتعطر بها وتشعر أن العطر مختفي ولكن في واقع الحال أنه يفرض نفسه بكل قوة وعنفوان، هذا العطر من تلك العطور. وصف العطر هو عطر سوسن بالمقام الأول مع اخشاب، إذا كنت تحب عطور السوسن على غرار ديور اوم انتس وبارفام وفالنتينو اومو وبرادا لوم والخ من عطور السوسن، هذا غالباً سيعجبك، لا أقول أنه يشبه لتلك العطور، لكن السوسن تجعل من تلك العطور تحمل روائح متشابهه وعلى نفس الخط العطري، تخيل معي ديور اوم انتس ولكن برائحة الطف واخف مع لمسة ياسمين واخشاب، تقريباً هذا وصف العطر.. الأداء والثبات ممتاز جداً، السعر المناسب لهذا العطر 700 ريال ( 200 دولار فأقل).. هذا كنت تحب العطور الخفيفة اللطيفة رائعة الحبكة، وتحب عطور الورد وبشكل خاص السوسن هذا العطر لابد من تجربته واقتنائه، ولن تندم..

i found this RIDICULOUSLY cheap and just bought it. basically half price and i didn't think twice. the beginning is just pure poetry, the salty, sweaty bitter oud smell works perfectly with the sugary sweet iris. they play off each other like good cop / bad cop. occasionally one overpowers the other and then vice versa. then, the oud wins out and other players come to the fore; rose, some white floral and other hard-to-discern qualities. whilst all this is going on, the rum is overseeing EVERYTHING, watching its underlings closely and intently, kinda like that kung fu boss that lets its minions do their thing until the very end. this is inDEED a masterpiece. i don't think anything else amouage has put out (with the exception of some of the arabic oils) comes close to the majesty and depth. there's literally a party going on when you smell this. utterly mesmerising, five-plus stars.

#The first time I sniffed this, I instantly fell in love. Against many other opinions, honestly I cannot detect a note in that one that stinks! But it is only my humble opinion of course:) Here is what I get: The opening blast of frest aoud and a waxy, creamy Rose! It is strong yes, but phantasticly so.. then, a few minutes after the intitial blast of agawood and rose, a strong orris note appears, not the flower but really the root!Cold and sophisticated at once..alas the orris is fading away a little to soon for my taste but then a gorgeous woody rose note (re)appears and I m satisfied once again. I cannot smell the rum note, only a litte civet but not too strong (which I don t like). The scent lingers for hours and hours.. great sillage AND staying power!! That and the wonderful scent is what I d ask of my favourite parfums. A really new favourite of mine.

I bought the full size of this perfume in 2016, it is very nice, very warm and sexy reference iris perfume, very high quality, polite, naive and elegant, when I first smelled it I said wow, what a perfume really fascinates people, iris themed perfumes are usually close to the skin and weak, this perfume breaks all taboos, it gives lessons to other iris themed perfumes in terms of longevity and spread, but after a while I felt something was wrong every time I took the opus v bottle in my hand, I realized that it was a woman's scent and every time I took it in my hand the feminine feeling pushed me away, now I just spray it on my wrist and enjoy it, for me it is a real women's perfume and a legend, I have a full size bottle from the first release, so I am lucky

Library Collection Opus V'' Mükemmel derecede olgun bir iris çiçeği kullanılmış tek parfümdür. Bu iris çiçeği o kadar çok dolu dolu doygun ve tozlu hissettiriyor ki, baş ağrısı oldu. ama bu beni iyi hissettiriyor. Erkeksi bir çekiciliği var. 30 yaş üstü erkeklere yakıştırırım. Bir araba içinde oturuyorsunuz. elinizdeki içki var. makyaj çantası arabada devredilmiş ve bu sinir ile içkiyi de makyajların üstüne döküyorsunuz. arabadan çıkarken odunsu bir ağaç ile birleşimi... biraz kapalı ve yoğun dolgun bir koku. Temiz ama bir yandan.. 10/8.9

It is oudh based smell , very strong indeed, it is styled on arabian oriental smell, to some it may stinks ( to me some of creed smell stinks like toothpaste, might as well use a toothpaste as perfume ) but give it time to develop, it produce the smell of agarwood or oudh which very expensive , ( high quality csmbodian oudh cost about US 1000/ 6 ml ) If ones want to experience the smell of rich king and prince of arab should try it. an alternative cheaper way of feeling like a rich arabian king.indeed it is a gift of king.

It is oudh based smell , very strong indeed, it is styled on arabian oriental smell, to some it may stinks ( to me some of creed smell stinks like toothpaste, might as well use a toothpaste as perfume ) but give it time to develop, it produce the smell of agarwood or oudh which very expensive , ( high quality csmbodian oudh cost about US 1000/ 6 ml ) If ones want to experience the smell of rich king and prince of arab should try it. an alternative cheaper way of feeling like a rich arabian king.indeed it is a gift of king.

FANTASTIC.. Simply fantastic I know my oud and this is far from a potent oud aroma, very European not Asian at all, very beautiful, very long lasting and smells of sugar cane again and again.. Beautiful & fantastic if you like sweet smells and can afford the price of sheer luxury get it.. A short update five days after spraying this fantastic EDP on my neck some of it must have landed on my jacket and I can still smell the aroma like it was put on yesterday.. serious longevity..

OpusV is the Opus of a high calibre most definitely. A very smooth gentle creamier version of jubilation25. It is a stnner. This is rally not as unisex as it is masculine. The masculinity appears in the final base dry down. In final stage a exquisite gentle sudective hybrid deer musk. Very wonderful reminds me of the former attar bahjah by Amouage, in the mildest form in the dry down. This Opus is stunningly attractive for men. 10 shining stars

I sprayed my 1998 feragamo femme today and was reminded of opus v. The cold, dry note dominates w similar support from something salty and v pale green. Turns out this is the same perfumer decades apart. Opus V is so interesting. I wanted towear it but the rum and faint but sharp civet made it difficult. Yes, the synthetic molecule is challenging,but this is the man who invented it. How can something be so subtle yet demand so much attention?

I love that ultimate powdery about this. So elegant. Definitely for winter, night ideally and just 2 sprays, otherwise it will be really overwhelming. You will be noticed immediately while wearing this. It can lasts for days on clothes. Definitely not for everyone but worth to try. Personally I do not wear it very often because my gf does not love it at all. But other women like it. Scent: 9/10 Longetivity: 10/10 Projection: 10/10

Very good, even amazing scent! I like the bitter start most. Having just tried and even bought The British Bouquet by Atkinsons, I thought that they are very similar. Comparing them hand by hand at the same time, it turned out that BB is sweeter kind and Opus V is more bitter or oudy, I don't really know what that note is that makes the difference. But they both have a similar base, BB disappearing quicker.

The best iris perfume i ever smelled is prada infusion d'iris. Still praise it for being well blended. Opus V however smells raw and straight forward in a niche way. I still prefer prada IdIris over this. But the sillage & lastingness is monster contra to prada. Very pleasant and office safe too. I just need more of its potential to justify its asking price. Opus V could be better.