Amouage · 2024 · Julien Rasquinet & Paul Guerlain

Lustre

Top luxury$$$$$, 5 of 5
Amouage asks $475 for 100 ml
100 ml$475

The houseUnisex

VersionParfum

Cardamom and orris over sandalwood and vanilla.

Amouage says

You’ll smell cardamom, iris (orris), patchouli, sandalwood, cedarwood, benzoin, labdanum, vanilla, ambergris (ambrarome), cypriol, styrax, Tonka Bean and myrrh.

The house’s page

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The drawn Lustre bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Lustre’s scent picture, a draft: cardamom, iris, patchouli, sandalwood, cedar, benzoin drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Lustre, top notes: Cardamom, Iris

Heartas it settles

Lustre, heart: Patchouli, Sandalwood, Cedar, Clove, Cinnamon

Dry-downwhat stays

Lustre, dry-down: Benzoin, Labdanum, Vanilla (vanillin), Ambergris, Cypriol, Styrax, Tonka (coumarin), Myrrh, Virginia cedar, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Galaxolide (musk), alpha-Isomethyl ionone (violet)

What’s inside it

What Amouage names

CardamomIris (orris)PatchouliSandalwoodCedarwoodBenzoinLabdanumVanillaAmbergris (ambrarome)CypriolStyraxTonka BeanMyrrh

What the label names

31 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus4 herbs & lavender5 florals8 woods2 sweet7 spices2 musks1 powder

Citrus2

LimoneneTerpinolene

Herbs & lavender4

PineneTerpineolLinaloolLinalyl acetate

Florals5

Geraniol (rose)Hexyl cinnamal (aldehydes)Benzyl salicylateFarnesolGeranyl acetate

Woods8

Patchouli oilCedarwood oilCedarwood oilSantalolSandalwood oilIso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet)VertofixEbanol

Sweet2

Vanillin (vanilla)Coumarin (new-mown hay)

Spices7

beta-CaryophylleneEugenolClove bud oilCinnamon bark oilCinnamalIsoeugenolEugenyl acetate

Musks2

Galaxolide (musk)Hexadecanolactone

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (violet) (powder puff)
3 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell3

AlcoholBenzyl benzoateBenzyl alcohol

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Reflection 45 ManAmouage · shares cardamom, orris, patchouli, sandalwood and 5 more$550 for 100 ml · about the same as Lustre’s $475
Million Gold ElixirRabanne · shares cardamom, patchouli, sandalwood, cedar (Atlas cedar) and 4 more$182 for 100 ml · about a third of Lustre’s $475
ReasonsAmouage · shares cardamom, patchouli, sandalwood, cedar (Atlas cedar) and 4 more$475 for 100 ml · about the same as Lustre’s $475
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.