Type: Chypre/Animalistic/Leather
Top: Cardamom, Mandarin Orange, Pink pepper, Wormwood
Heart: Clove, Incense, Pepper, Woody notes, Jasmine, Rose, White Flowers
Base: Musk, French Labdanum, Oak Moss, Styrax, Leather, Olibanum, Castoreum, Fenugreek
Created for the House of Amouage by Daniel Maurel & Dorothee Piot, comes Memoir. A fascinating fragrance, baroque, smoky, fresh and chypre. This one leaves the bottle with a wonderful burst of orange quickly followed by pink pepper and the sweet honey like aroma of wormwood. As it moves, the heart of the fragrance opens up to reveal, clove, incense, pepper, jasmine, rose and white flowers. A lovely perfume indeed. Within a half an hour this fragrance develops and warms further on the skin to fully develop into the base phase of the complete fragrance as subtle as a thief in the night this incense, chypre perfume has yet a surprise as it is now joined by oak moss and leather, which is smoothed nicely by the incense fragrance of Olibanum.
It is rich and enveloping. Never timid, but bold, without being overbearing. The leather is not sharp, but new and clean, smoothed out and sweetened by the fenugreek and Styrax. The Olibanum continues the incense smoky aroma right down through the base dry down of this precious creation. A rare perfume to be sure, this one is very long lasting and can be detected on the skin twenty-four hours after application. It is not a fragrance to be taken lightly. It is a very fine rich perfume and extremely well done. Per the House of Amouage, Memoir is meant to "evoke a woman's past, present and future".
After trying this fragrance, I searched online for the reactions that others have had to it. This one is different from person to person and responses varied greatly in likes and dislikes, as well as what notes were most prominent for each and every person. Some never experienced the leather at all and some too sharp. Some were wanting for more fenugreek or incense. In one case the wearer reported that after a half an hour the fragrance felt put on instead of joined with her skin and that it became chaotic. Others found that it joined their skin and developed into a lovely fragrance and experience. After reading these reports, in spite of what I have experienced, I would strongly suggest trying this one before you buy it, because Amouage is one of the more pricey fragrance houses.
Where to buy: http://www.parfumerienasreen.com/
Thank you Marinela at Parfumes Nasreen for the generous sample.
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