Amouage · 2010 · Daniel Maurel & Dorothée Piot

Memoir Woman

Luxury$$$$, 4 of 5

The houseFor women

VersionEau de Parfum

Dark leathery chypre: incense and white flowers over oakmoss, castoreum and labdanum.

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The drawn Memoir Woman bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Memoir Woman’s scent picture, a draft: mandarin, cardamom, artemisia, pink pepper, black pepper, clove drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Memoir Woman, top notes: Mandarin, Cardamom, Artemisia, Pink pepper

Heartas it settles

Memoir Woman, heart: Black pepper, Clove, White flowers, Rose, Jasmine, Woody notes, Frankincense

Dry-downwhat stays

Memoir Woman, dry-down: Styrax, Oakmoss, Castoreum, Leather, Labdanum, Fenugreek, Musk, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

13 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 citrus1 herbs & lavender5 florals1 sweet1 amber & resins2 spices1 powder

3 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Beloved WomanAmouage · shares cardamom, clove, rose, jasmine and 5 more
Detour NoirAl Haramain · shares mandarin, cardamom, pink pepper, black pepper and 5 more$19.05 for 100 ml · about a tenth of Memoir Woman’s $395
Fate WomanAmouage · shares black pepper, jasmine, frankincense, oakmoss and 3 more
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.