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Editor’s note pending — every credited perfumer eventually gets a written profile here.
The compositions
Mellow Yellow
The Library Collection Silver Oud
Epic 56 Woman
Bossa
Petitgrain opens bright and waxy-green — citrus-adjacent but with a bitter-leaf quality that keeps the opening from becoming generic.
Ani
The opening bursts with peppery warmth—pink pepper and ginger create an immediate spice that feels less gourmand than architectural, like the first rush of incense smoke in a stone chamber.
Ani X
The opening arrives as a bright collision: ginger and pink pepper spark against bergamot and cardamom, with an unexpected slice of melon softening the citrus edge.
Opus XIV – Royal Tobacco
The opening arrives with a liturgical gravity—frankincense and cardamom rising through basil's green sharpness, bergamot lending just enough lift to keep the resinous weight from settling too quickly.
Remember Me
Remember Me is built on restraint — six notes assembled with enough confidence to ask nothing more.
Fêtes Persanes
Stairway To Heaven
Private Label
A leathery vetiver opens with austere confidence—not the polished saddle of modern fragrances, but something drier and more resinous, sharpened by papyrus that adds an almost paper-like quality to the composition.
Green Water
Les Indes Galantes
Aqua Sextius
Orange, grapefruit, and bergamot open Aqua Sextius with a bright, sun-warm citrus that mimosa elevates into something more atmospheric — mimosa adds a honeyed, slightly powdery-floral quality that turns a simple citrus opening into an evocation of warm stone and early spring.
Kashnoir
Kashnoir opens with lavender that feels darker than expected, its herbal brightness immediately tempered by benzoin's sweet resinous warmth.
Only For Him
Nerotic
The name conflates "neurotic" with "erotic" — a Laboratorio Olfattivo move in the house's tradition of clever-provocative titles.
Nuit Andalouse
Bel Ambre
Patchouliful
Bleu Satin
Café Cabanel
Café Cabanel opens with the warm jolt of roasted coffee softened by cinnamon's gentle spice—not the sharp bite of espresso, but something quieter, like the smell of beans ground near a pastry counter.
New Oud
La Surprise
Rose Tubereuse
Rose Tubereuse E. Coudray
Tempête d’Automne
OR ± Kanabo
Material
Material opens with a deep, earth-dark patchouli that feels almost meditative in its intensity.
Curacao Bay
Cécile Zarokian maps the Caribbean from altitude: the opening is a rush of petitgrain, orange, tangerine, lemon, and green notes — not so much a citrus accord as a citrus landscape.
Vanilla Edesia
Petra
Opus XIII – Silver Oud
Silver Oud is Amouage's thirteenth Library Collection entry and among its most austere — a composition that asks oud to do the heavy lifting in conversation with a set of deliberately darkened, animalic accords.
Nanshe
Nanshe opens with a bright collision of citrus and spice—yuzu's tart sweetness lifted by cardamom's dry warmth and bergamot's clean zest.