Amouage Memoir Woman Eau de Parfum

wow wow wow - a stunning perfume and imo the best from amouage. bold and elegant, almost rough in its intense sensuality - black leather, intoxicating incense, warm spices, carnivorous flowers, all blended together perfectly. makes me feel dark and decadent, strong, sexual. i don't think this is a very feminine perfume, quite the contrary it leans unisex. there's both class and austerity to it, but its darkness is pervasive and its sexuality of the controversial kind. what's even more surprising is how nostalgic it gets at times, almost gloomy. this is a creature of the night, longing for its lost love and innocence, filling up with darkness and exploring the shadows.

This is such a powerful perfume, it’s probably one of the most polarising beautiful scents I’ve seen. I love it but it grew on me. It has a bitter green, quality that reminds me of a dark character. Someone like Malificent, a sorceress with long, slender claws, black draping hair and a sallow complexion and eyes like eternal tunnels of starry darkness, lips pursed like a greying lilac. The cloves add a chilling, menthol-esque quality, lending a stand-offish, elitist character to this scent. Her pain has grown roots of wisdom in her, she withstood the chaos and now her heart is made of diamond.

This is so interesting and incomparable to any other perfume I’ve tried before. It’s very heavy and dominating, so it’s not for a conformist wallflower. You wear this for your own pleasure.

Memoir is completely unisex but it’s definitely for the decisive and bold people. This one suits a self-assured, confident and lone wolf.

It has a strong, matriarchal and regal presence. This would be such a perfect choice for a beautiful, elegant, mature and chaste woman. Someone who is a source of strength for those around her. She empowers, she nurtures and she never compromises on what she wants.

Dark, gothic, vampiric. Only for dark queens! Became my favourite from the first spray.

Oh YES! Do you love Dior Poison or Cacharel LouLou BUT...

-would like something darker

-more complex

-with more proper animalic tones to it

-a chypre undertone

???

Then you must try this. Wow. It's a perfect cross between a lush ultra dark oriental and an impossibly elegant (yet sexy) chypre. When I say dark, I mean it is DARK. Perhaps the darkest perfume I've ever smelled. It's definitely up there. As pitch black and mysterious as the bottle it is housed in. Complex, gorgeous, sexy as hell. Dark in an vamp ultra femme-fatale sort of way, not goth. You don't have to wear black with this. It's so deliciously dark it doesn't need you to accessorize or be all matchy matchy. It does all the talking by itself. When you feel daring, dangerous, and too sexy for your entire wardrobe-this is what you reach for. Intoxicating.

La, this is lovely.

Incense that's been soaked in sweet wine, an antique spice chest with gilt hinges, a library of flowers pressed in rare books--

Fills the room at first, labdanum fueling soft animalics, then slowly fades to the skin. Wormwood takes the sweetness from the cloves to make them leathery and rich, but roses soften the edges, making it feminine.

Lasts all day, and even longer in the hair, vintage luxury at its best.