Wet Stone
The subject of Amouroud Wet Stone Eau de Parfum 100ml is a mineral rather than a flower, and that makes it the odd one out in a line otherwise devoted to resins and dark woods. Sea salt is the material that does it. Sitting under bergamot and lemon cedrat at the opening, it gives the citrus a saline, almost damp quality, the smell of air near water rather than of fruit. Lemon cedrat is the bitterest and most peel like of the citrus materials, and the three together produce a first impression that is cool, clean and slightly austere.
The middle adds warmth without abandoning that coolness. Ginger is dry and fizzy, cardamom cool and aromatic with a faint camphor edge, and sage herbal and a little bitter. It is a spiced heart rather than a floral one, which keeps the scent moving in a straight line. The base is where the stone comes from. Ambergris provides the mineral, salty, slightly animal warmth that gives this kind of fragrance its distinctive skin quality, with alaskan cedar adding a clean dry wood, vetiver a bitter root, patchouli earth, and oud a dark resinous depth that is used sparingly here rather than as the subject. Eleven materials, and the whole arrangement stays cool from beginning to end.
Released in 2019. The concentration buys longevity rather than loudness, which suits its character; this is not a fragrance that wants to fill a room. It works in heat where most of the line does not, and it suits daytime, offices, travel and summer evenings. It reads unisex without qualification.
Amouroud is the niche imprint that The Perfumer's Workshop International started in July 2016, working largely with oud and resinous compositions. It opened with six fragrances, Oud du Jour and Dark Orchid included, and the catalogue today spans several collections, among them White Woods and Garden.
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