Honour Woman
Amouage Honour Woman Eau de Parfum 100ml is a white floral built on an old idea, the single flower treated as a monument, and it is one of the most uncompromising things the Omani house has released for women. The opening is sharp and strange. Black pepper is dry and hot, coriander adds a peppery, slightly soapy dryness, and rhubarb leaves bring a green, sour, almost stalky quality that cuts straight across the pepper. It lasts only a few minutes and it is bracing while it does. Then the flowers arrive, and there are five of them. Tuberose is the dominant one, heady, creamy and faintly medicinal, the most difficult white flower in perfumery and the reason this fragrance divides people. Gardenia sits beside it adding a green creaminess, jasmine supplies richness, lily of the valley a cool dewy sharpness and carnation a dry spiciness that gives the bouquet an old fashioned backbone. It is a full, high, serious floral heart with nothing casual about it.
The base is where the house signature shows. Frankincense is cool and resinous with that faint lemony smoke it always carries, opoponax adds a sweeter balsamic warmth, amber gives resinous weight, vetiver a dry rooty bitterness and leather a smooth dark finish. Thirteen materials, and the move from green pepper through flowers to resin is the whole architecture. At eau de parfum strength it is long lasting and it carries. Two sprays are enough and it will still be there at the end of the evening. Cool weather and formal occasions suit it best, and it rewards confidence more than it rewards caution.
Amouage was established in Oman in 1983 and is run by Oman Perfumery, part of the Sabco Group. Its first release, Gold, came that same year and was composed by the French perfumer Guy Robert. The house works with Omani raw materials, frankincense above all, and its heavy decorated bottles are capped in the shape of the dome of the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque for the women's line.
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