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xenavlad – :
Anyone have an unloved bottle or large decant for swap? ❤️
Barlowmsp – :
I first tried this a few years ago and was frustrated with it. At the time I was looking for a strong rose soliflore and this wasn’t it. It haunted me for years, because there was something about the first 30 minutes that was so so beautiful but fleeting for me.
More recently I’ve discovered the true beauty of Lyric; that while rose is a major component, there are all these other notes swirling around that really make the fragrance what it is. I can distinguish every single note individually and also the combined impression of the smell. And I can appreciate the base notes in a way that I couldn’t before. It’s like before, I was seeing Lyric in black/white/gray, and now it’s in full color!
Lyric is the only Amouage that I’ve bothered to find the older version of, and I do feel like it’s slightly more nuanced and a little stronger than the magnetic cap version, although I wouldn’t call it a very strong fragrance. It’s a soft rosy spicy musky cloud about you, and very gentle <3 And yes, I can see a resemblance to Samsara, because of the warmth, impression of “red”, and sandalwood. Lyric has the rose and spices as well, so they are not the same but give a similar feeling. I would say Samsara is still a bit warmer, while Lyric is warm but fresh spicy at the same time.
piskamaster – :
So, I wanted Lyric Man desperately, but I can’t afford it from a reputable source, and one very late night I bid a bit high on a 3/4 full bottle of this, and won. And it’s lovely. Not the same kind of lovely that Lyric Man is, more feminine (duh), more Golden Hour than twilight, more red and gold than red and silver, more walled garden than a cave, but still very good.
One of few extremely feminine scents that work for me. But then, a good rose is like that.
dengod – :
I wanted to be lured by the seductively dangerous genie who lived within the blood-red bottle of Amouage ‘Lyric’ Woman. But sadly there’s no genie in this bottle, as this is not the magical fragrance I was hoping for. Although I worship at the altar of Amouage, Lyric left me disappointed, as there are much better smoky-rose combos out there by the cheaper Arabian houses. If you buy most Arabian attars, the chances are that it’s going to be a smoky-rose but done better and made to last. I can still (faintly) smell Lyric this morning, but the longevity and silage were both moderate, and I expect more from Amouage as usually they raise the bar of perfumery standards.
It’s a nice smoky-rose, but it didn’t move me.
dimon-gv – :
Lovely dark spicy rose. but strange that sometimes the longevity lasts all day and other times it only lasts for a couple of hours.
ylukovnikov – :
Just received my 50ml today. It smells divine. Dark but feminine. Spicy rose. Too bad the longevity and sillage are less strong than Epic. Good thing is I can wear it anytime.
buifilfubdine – :
Lyric is essentially a well-crafted, spicy rose scent. But, oh, it is SO much more!
I adore Amouage scents. They offer bold fragrances that have clear personalities. Whilst the likes of Chanel conjure up a chilly air of sophistication & restraint (like the fashionista Aunt who air kisses & never hugs) Amouage scents proudly seduce you & envelop you in warmth. They are on another level.
Lyric is no exception: deep, sensual, creamy & bold. I find this perfume unabashedly raunchy in the most elegant way & it is all about the dry-down.
The syrupy cinnamon-rose opener hurtles up your nose & reminds me of iconic 80s power scents & glossy red lips – but ride out this slightly crazy stage & you will be greeted with the smoothest of sandalwoods & richest of roses, glazed in a vanilla-tonka butterscotch & tempered by oakmoss, frankincense & the tamest of patchoulis. The red lips now smudged by a passionate kiss, the clothes on the floor, hair tousled.
There is a traditional structure underpinning this exotic scent that gives a grown up feel to Lyric. It could never be described as carefree but it also escapes being stuffy & formal. The notes are all very well-blended as there is that wonderful Amouage frankincense weaving its way between the base notes.
Sillage & lasting power are, as with most Amouages, formidable. Spray behind the knees for the most beautiful of wafts as you walk.
zub1 – :
A spicy rose that smells to me like it could have been a Tauer perfume. I prefer crisp roses, but this one could work for those who like their roses deep and warm.
Reews – :
good smell but low sillage. quite disappointed with Amouage since all of its perfumes are super strong.
qayz – :
The best and most seductive rose fragrance available for unisex. It has a lot going on more than rose like the oriental spices, florals, inscense and sandalwood.
So sophisticated, so beautiful. Unique mix of darkness, creamyness and soapyness.
Top class performance and killer sillage
Jackiea – :
Lyric(new formulation) is a gorgeous rose fragrance with, sadly, zero longevity and zero sillage on me.
I like it enough though (albeit the scent is so fleeting it’s hard for me to commit) to recommend it, so long as you buy the older formulation. Based on the earlier reviews, longevity and sillage are not a problem with the original formulation. I’ll be looking for it too, but I do have to get past my annoyance with the price for the reformulation – it isn’t cheap either, and I think they have a lot of nerve charging what they do for a perfume that barely last from the initial spray to my leaving the house.
dnipro43 – :
This is a solid like for me. It’s a dark horse, not in your face, but it reels you in, a bit unexpectedly. It’s got a warm, kind of vanilla-incense-slight rose thing going on which is very pleasurable. For me, it’s a “cuddle” perfume – like something you’d smell if you got close and were cuddling into someone’s yummy cashmere sweater.
I have to soak my arms and chest in it in order to have all-day scent, but it’s an experience worth having. (Typically I like sillage monsters that I can get a good dose from 1 or 2 sprays.)
I was delighted, reading Iobhai’s review below, because other than sex and servants, I think the feeling he conveyed in his review is totally spot-on!
You realize that you are warmly lingered upon, and it’s a warm, good feeling.
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I originally bought this hoping for a more intense rose experience. It’s not that, but it is good.
ExTenZ1 – :
Well well, when it comes from niche territory, it’s no longer a russian matronly scent, right? A Maroussia with more rose and cardamom…
TERMINATOR2009 – :
You’ve just had sex in a rose garden. For a moment, both you and your lover are speechless, caught in a moment staring into each other’s eyes. After some time, she rolls over, but you grab her and pull her close and she laughs as you spoon her. She runs her fingers along your arm, and through the soft fur of the wolf pelts covering the earth beneath you. You press your nose into the back of her neck and you smell her sweat, detecting the vanilla coffee that her servants prepared for her that morning, the cinnamon and the sweet spices from her escorted walk through the markets that afternoon, the bit of smoke from the men’s cigars at the polo game that followed. She moves to get up and dress, and you understand that it’s your time to leave. Before you go, she leaves you with a kiss, and you notice that your clothes, too, have absorbed all of the scents from that moment in her rose garden. Her guards follow you back to your horse, and you wonder if, or when, you’ll get invited back to see your queen again. Lyric Woman by Amouage.
d.teplov11 – :
Seductive and mysterious. The opening is pretty bright and you might think that is an easy to wear perfume. It’s not – it’s pretty complex actually. The Rose note dominates though the whole wear length. But there are also delicate nuances of insense, Sandalwood and cardamom. It’s pretty oriental but Moden. The longevity is good. It lasts for 6 hours wich nice Sillage. The dry down is much for powdery and generic. The notes blend well together and it becomes a skin scent.
bbgggdeerrr – :
I’m afraid this review will sound harsher than I mean it to. I do like Amouge Lyric; it’s a great, quality scent for sure. But it’s not quite for me. The opening is unexpectedly bright and fruity, which I attribute to the ylang since the fruitiness is a bit banana-like. For me, it seems out of place. After about 15-20 minutes, that mostly dissipates and the rose and incense take over, though it still seems a bit too bright for my liking. Eventually, it does turn more satisfyingly dark and gothic, but by that time, it’s also taken on a dusty/fusty/musty tone that reminds me a tad of an old attic. Lyric is close to what I want from it, but just never quite makes it there.
saschka23 – :
Lyric Woman is the sexy and sedcutive sister of the Lyric Man:) This is an instant love for me, such a romantic scent. One of the most complex perfumes, so rich and opulent, true middle eastern style. You will discover many layers during the development. It’s a beautiful blend of so many ingradients, but I can clearely recognise rose, sandalwood, incense and cardamom.
I find Lyric women is original and unique, but in the drydown I feel a similar vibe with Chanel Coromandel which is my another one of favourite. Coromandel is less complex and more creamier with a dusty dry down.
Performance is great as with most Amouages, will last around 8 hours with a very good projection. More suitable for fall and winter. I will consider this as oriental spicy.
I’m a guy and very tempting to wear this beauty, it’s more feminine than unisex though.
spserega – :
Can’t remember for sure if I’ve reviewed this before but like most Amouage Scents , its gorgeous and this is perhaps one of the very best unsweet ginger/ rose scents in my (vast) collection . I also have Miller Harris Rose Noir and its kind of in the same vein . A rose , but a very dark red one streaked with black and dusted off with ginger for good measure . It maybe isn’t as wonderful (to me ) as Gold but its a close second – I like this as a summer evening kind of scent . Great on hot holidays .
I did smile a little reading one writer describe this as her signature scent – after wearing it for a week ! I think if you love perfume then a “signature scent” is almost a contradiction in terms – there are just too many great scents out there to settle for one and actually , eventually you and the people closest to you become anosmic anyway . Another writer complains that the spices take precedent over the flowers but when you consider that these scents are primarily designed for wearing in hot desert climates, designed for the Arabian market and totally unisex in concept whatever the bottles may say , then spices will prevail because heat destroys flowers but heating spices makes them more pungent .
I dont find Lyric is especially “naughty” , its classical perfumery but it doesn’t make me think of opium dens or seraglios – I find it pretty clean compared with Jubilation XXV to be honest –
One thing I do agree with one writer is regarding the fact that as with most most of the Amouage collection Lyric has a tendency to fall apart at the end – which is a shame as I think the dry down of all scents is the best bit – thats where scents get “naughty” – its kind of “the morning after the night before ” but Amouage never offers that residual kind of naughtiness , which is a great pity .
I’ve made an important discovery about “what men like” where scent is concerned and have discovered that if they mention it , its usually because its overwhelming and the scent is wearing you rather than the other way around . My husband is more likely to comment about something he doesn’t like than something he does like . He makes no comment on this at all but when I wore Perfum Sacre ( mentioned in the thread) , he said “Oh, thats new t !” – so I know he isn’t enjoying it . The biggest compliment is actually when he says absolutely nothing , just sniffs !
DIOID – :
I must admit I was hoping I didn’t like this perfume because it’s so expensive, but it’s so gorgeous that I fell for it. I might go so far as to say it’s the best Rose fragrance I’ve ever smelled!
The word I would use to describe it is “opulent.”
Rose and spices, which has been done time and time again but not like Amouage. I think it’s definitely worth the price, because I dabbed a tiny bit from a small sample and the sillage is grand and the longevity is glorious!
A previous review said that this would be the perfume Belle would’ve worn with her all gown in Beauty and the Best—I agree!
maykoch – :
I prefer the extrait vs the edp but I do combine both. In the extrait the rose is more clearly defined and richer. The edp plush spices take center stage with the rose as a backup. The whole experience is a plush arabian rose. The more I wear it the more I like it. Worth getting to know.
LtaS – :
Lyric opens with a slightly disconcerting medicinal quality that then gives way to cinnamon and rose with the ginger and cardamom playing only minor supporting roles. On my skin, there is something sickly in the drydown of tonka bean, sandalwood and ginger, but on the blotter the results are a fresher experience entirely, with the strong rose evolving to a bright ginger, ylang-ylang and geranium accord.
genja_k – :
At first spray my heart sank because Lyric smelled so incredibly heavenly that I imagined that I was going to have to mortgage our house so that I could have this gorgeous fragrance that I could not live without!
But, as in everything in life, nothing is constant, and as Lyric dried down it took on a bitter herbiness that I did not care for at all!
Looking at the notes and because of my chemistry, I must attribute it primarily to the vetiver which tends to mask everything else with an unpleasant earthiness. The ginger and geranium do not help either!
I only wish that Lyric had maintained the initial rich and spicy rosiness but I’ll look on the bright side….I didn’t have to go into debt after all!
frolovva05 – :
This is wonderful. The rose comes with a slightly banana-y smell which somehow makes the scent both fresher and darker. Whilst it does not smell at all similar, this odd fruity note reminded me of the fruit and truffle notes in Tom Ford’s Black Orchid. As I say, the similarity ends there, but that slightly dank and sweet note is similar in both scents.
Lyric’s rose is soft and velvety – not sour, not dusty, not prim. It is absolutely beautiful and I love it. It is not like any other rose fragrance I have tried (and there are a lot). It is very original even in such a crowded market.
The downside is that the sillage is moderate at the beginning of its life and then dies down to a skin scent after about 4 hours. After 6 really just a trace is left. I’m not spending this much for this performance, no matter how beautiful the scent.
Edit: Oh man, this is just so beautiful and so distinctive, I have to have it. And I keep a very small collection.
supermotya – :
Spicy bergamot that opens up to a cinnamony sandalwood then turns to a lightly powdery and musky sandalwood. Then it strikes me with what the drydown reminds me of – Jaipur Homme which I wore for months (even though I’m not a dude), I love it! After that phase ends, it’s nice and creamy sandalwood that is absolutely delectable. Want!
9/10
shim38 – :
Addictive. Totally. In the style Hypnotic Poison can be but darker, less powdery, spicy and woody on the opening and with a real evolution from top notes to base notes. Apparently inspired by music but to me it reminds me more of the interior of an opera, La Fenice under dim lights, than the music. This is not a copy cat of a trend, it’s perfume done like the classics, rich and opulent. Like most of the Amouages, and I thank them for that. Don’t change! No other words needed. Oh yes, just one: how I wish Amouage was at least a little bit less expensive! On a second thought, no, remain expensive, if this is what it takes to make perfumes so opulent and rich.
toshka_p – :
After the initial rose explosion that on my skin lasts maybe 30 minutes, I perceive a very prominent cinnamon/clove/incense/sandalwood mix that keeps going strong for many hours. Very good sillage and longevity, it reminds me of another perfume that my mother used to wear for many years…it was the same sandalwood/incense/sweet spices cloud, but lyric is a bit more transparent. It took me several days to realize that my mother’s perfume was Youth Dew. Please..get some time to compare youth dew with this scent, the structure is really similar to my nose.
AceraVers – :
Ok listen up folks. This is one of those perfumes that smells very different DABBED vs SPRAYED. I have Lyric in my collection for about 4 years now. But I’ve never written a review about it. Until now. Partly because I’m undergoing a bit of an Amouage renaissance, revisiting old favourites. Mainly though, it is to share my experience of wearing it.
When dabbed, it comes across simply as a big bold floral. To be honest, not very impressive at all. Just very heady, full-bodied, and larger-than-lifeish.
When sprayed, holy moly, it’s a whole different story. I get waves and waves of sandalwood. This is the first time I ever identified with the name of the house – derived from Arabic ‘amwaj’ – meaning waves. I used to think, ok, it’s a nice name, cute metaphor, Frenchified to Amouage, but nothing to be taken seriously. Until Lyric positively inundated me with its amwaj of authentic, creamy, sandalwood. (I apologise if I butchered Arabic back there) Interestingly for me, the rose becomes a side show because all I can experience is this lush Mysore. If I tried really hard, I can detect the rose. But why would I?
So for those of you who had gotten those 1ml dab on vials from places like Luckyscent and dismissed this fragrance, beware. Try Ausliebezumduft for their more sensible 2ml spray samples. Or beg a “friendly” SA to give an official factory sample. Or just get a full bottle. The high ratings here speak for itself.
sqp488JeomiWogkig – :
I call this my skanky perfume and absolutely ADORE it’s ‘Arabic’ vibe. I applied a small spray before bed and can still smell it now in the morning. Makes me wonder how good the original and pre reformulation versions are because I class this staying power as BEAST MODE! One reviewer below this makes a reference to this reminding her of Samsara and I do agree. It’s vintage Samsara EDP on steroids. Both in the ‘skanky’ class of heavy and animalic scents!
This arrives before I do and I love that!
Yes it’s expensive but you only need one spray. Well worth the $ for that reason because lyric is such a bold fragrance and I love excess.
Perfect time of year being winter now (in Australia) to wear these heavy EDP’S.
Certainly not a fragrance for hotter months!
Just adore my little bottle of Lyric.
Now to add Memoir to my growing collection too!
Both stunning perfumes, for bold and confident women. Statement makers!
lorGooretebus – :
This is so close to being a huge love for me but something about it smells kind of cheap and like men’s cologne. I kept changing my mind about it and bought a full bottle but ultimately decided that it’s not for me, will probably swap/sell now.
jid – :
If you like foofy things, this one is for you. I can smell why this is compared to Chanel Coromandel. They both conjure a Miyazaki character come to flesh; all angled facial lines wrapped in an obscenely foofy white fur coat. She stomp-floats past you and as she turns her head, a blast of sweet wood and unctuous rose escapes and envelops your head like a magnificent floral octopus with dryer lint for suction cups.
Prerfrind – :
This is the scent that Belle wore when she danced with the Beast in her yellow dress.. and probably during her entire stay at the castle.
This a beautiful but contradictory scent. On the one hand, it’s a lovely romantic Rose, very delicate. But on the other hand, it’s dark and has slight gothic vibe to it. The background is very woody with a beautiful sandalwood, and the spices are quite mellow, not in your face kind of spices. But that Rose is smoky and romantic at the same time, it’s dominating the scent.
PS-I have this on one of my hand while I’m writing this. I can’t get enough of it. As well as other Amouage fragrances I tried today.
oos1606 – :
“Spicy heaven perfume” opens boldly with a very well done strong rose, cardamom and maybe cinnamon blending together. Then it turns darker. The middle was still rose with patchouli and other scents blending together. The mid notes were my favorite part. This stage last through maybe 5 hours of wear. The basenotes are incense mixed with other things. The drydown is not faint, perhaps a mid-range sillage. I want to wear Lyric Woman again tomorrow. It does not smell like Penhaligon’s Halafeti, but it reminds me of it in spirit. It is bold and interesting.
ArineeHoigo – :
Lyric smells like a very luxurious incense stick, in the best way possible. Spices, sandalwood, cinnamon, and a dark rose combine together to for, a rich aroma that wafts around you all day and nearly identically recreates the experience of actual incense. Despite its realistic representation of the real deal, it still comes together to form a classy and luxurious perfume. Lyric is a cold weather perfume without a doubt, it leaves such a warm, regal trail in cool air. Amouage has seriously nailed the rose-centric perfume. This and Epic are both stunning, but Epic is like Lyric’s drier, lighter, warm weather loving sister. Lyric is the dark, jammy, smokey rose wrapped in velvet.
AffentFew – :
I agree with the reviewer below – this is a “jammy, syrupy rose” – very different from the fresh, clean, green rose of Lyric Man. I can see a lot of women preferring the Lyric Man rose; and definitely a few men preferring the Lyric Woman one!
So the Lyrics could be viewed as a duo of unisex fragrances, one’s ultimate choice dependent on personal preferences.
Lyric Woman opens with a rich, dark, red bombastic rose, with a pile of other notes as well. The rose brings to mind old rose petals infused with a rich berry liqueur. I also imagine I can detect a lot of other notes going on, that are not in the official note pyramid – labdanum, leather, amber, coconut?! Or am I going crazy? Maybe it’s a bit like the “coffee” in Interlude Woman – a sort of olfactory illusion created by other accords.
Anyway, the most peculiar thing about Lyric Woman (at last on my male skin) is that after an hour there is no detectable rose at all – for the next few hours this becomes a (fairy linear but pleasant) vanilla-coconut-sandalwood fragrance. I prefer the drydown to the opening (which is a bit too full-on for me).
Only in the very late dry-down does a tinge of rose come back into the equation. In this respect there is a huge thematic similarity to Lyric Man: rose is strong in the opening, then disappears completely, and reappears much later on in the development of the fragrance.
jxm678intitytek – :
I´m not a fan of rose scents and the rose in Lyric is the worst kind for me: a jammy, syrupy rose, much like the one in Lutens´ Fille de Berlin.
A must for rose lovers, a no-no for me. (Although I think it´s the first perfume that made me appreciate cinnamon as a note.)
Definitely an Epic girl here. Sorry, Lyric!
postking – :
If I was not such a lazy individual as well as forgetful, I may have written off this scent as too old fashioned for me. The opening is a distinct reminder of 1980’s home decor using potpourri as a bombastic icon of glamour and hopeless home scent experimentation. I know this because I was raised in the South by a proper Southern woman. I’m pretty sure one of our cats regularly attempted to eat some of that gloriously weird composition and yacked it up all over the carpet. But I digress.
So, the opening was not attractive at all. Cinnamon and overdone red roses with a candied feel…too syrupy and too much. This was going nowhere fast, and I was so disappointed! I had gone from making a space on my beloved antique silver serving platter for the bottle, to swiftly placing it back into the box from which it came, and stowing it safely within the confines of my dark, cool closeted shelves. You know the ones…those boxes can get sorta piled high, can’t they?
I gingerly kept my left hand away from my nose throughout the rest of the day and evening. It was not until around 10:30 pm that I chose to give my nose another chance at this scent I had wanted for so long…and to my surprise, I had a most gorgeous scent on my left hand! It is all at once a sandalwood, with deep and resinous tones, lifted with Vetiver and vanilla, as well as arcs of dark rose flowing in and out. There is more here, but I cannot explain what I am smelling – perhaps incense in the base? faint, but something reminds me of some of our Holy Eucharist services.
I’m going to give this a proper wearing later this week, as I want to understand this scent fully before deciding whether I can get past the opening. If it lasts more than an hour, that will be tough. Hopefully, it will be less! The dry down really is quite nice!
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Update:
This is a keeper! I have no idea why I was so unimpressed with the opening upon the first wearing, but I really enjoyed it the second wearing. Truly a beautiful scent!
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Welcome back to the wardrobe, old friend. I shall never be without you again. We were parted so I could pay for some CEU’s to renew my professional license, but now that I have you back, I’ll never let you go.
(This is my review in its entirety as I altered it from my initial to my most recent experience)
Vanyokar – :
Based on what several other reviewers reported, I must have tested the reformulated version.
It opens with a blast of sensational woods and spices, with a slightly skanky edge. Soon it develops into a smooth woody rose. It feels like a silk scarf, which I enjoy very much. The dry down is soapy. I did not expect it thin and soapy in the end.
Chigivara – :
Way back when, Lyric was the first Amouage to catch my attention. I admit it, the name lured me in. I thought they must be on to something great. If they (the House of Amouage) could see the kinship between music and perfumery, notes, composition, development…surely they must be capable of beauty.
I wasn’t wrong.
BUT Lyric is not a easy melody for me. Maybe it was once. It’s not tempered or the ethereal Air on the G String, as I had hoped.
I find it heavy. Strong. Deep. Masculine. It’s filled with bass, and a bit of sass. Cinnamon sass to be exact. It can be too heady, too warm, too LOUD, just too damn big for me. It’s interesting, despite not being avant-garde. It feels like A LOT of the common. Too much of a good thing? Well, too much of a good thing can indeed make for a challenge.
The challenge is in the weight of the cardamon. It’s in the pervasive, insistent incense and cinnamon combination. It’s challenging to wear because it never, ever fades.
Lyric is beautiful, OF COURSE, but it seems a melody my senses and I are best able to appreciated from a distance.
ibragimovigor – :
I am a huge Amouage lover and honestly admire how well-blended their perfumes are, with no bitterness or sharpness so common for niche fragrances. Memoir, Jubilation, Interlude are my standard for wearable incense.
Well, this one is a disaster. First spray on a blotter – wait, it reminds me something.. Second on my skin – I know, it’s Dzing! Dzing is a premature baby and Lyric is a spoiled brat but both come from the same family – rough, animalic, salty. After two hours of wearing it turns into a more delicate version of Crystal Noir, wearable and musky, yet it still doesn’t have that Amouage vibe – noble and solemn like an evening in a palace.
Of course, this thing is still better than many perfumes but it’s so unbalanced and sour and… spicy. Not spicy like an Arabian souq but spicy like a bottle of pickles pretending it’s a rose jam.
Demon9392 – :
softly spicy . . . warm . . . comforting . . . like a soft, thick blanket knit of the finest cashmere
I applied one spray from my sample in the morning and spent the entire day enjoying how amazing I smelled 🙂
Came home in the evening and immediately purchased a full bottle. The BIG bottle. It’s that good.
sova333 – :
I just dabbed on a bit of Lyric Woman, which I received from a generous Fragrantican―the first sniff of any Amouage I’ve ever smelled.
I see the comparisons to Agent Provocateur Signature (“This perfume reminds me of…”), but, due to the heavy incense, I see more similarities between Lyric and L’agent. Does anyone else think that this smells a bit like both scents?
I really, really like this. But for the price, I think I could achieve a similar effect with 4 or 5 parts L’agent and 1 part Agent Provocateur (both of which I already own).
yan_kio – :
I think I have formulation. This opens slightly spicy and a little bit like POAL, but not nearly as strong or intense. It also reminds me a bit of SL La Fille de Berlin, but just a bit and is because of the spicy opening which I quite like. While this Amouage has traces and echoes of those perfumes, it dries down to a powder for several hours, and then re-emerges as a dark slightly sweet rose. I like it, but I don’t love it, and, I’m not delighted with its overall performance. Some of my favorite Amouage scents are strong, long, and complex. This remained a skin scent most of its life with poorer longevity than other Amouages. It’s a rose with a difference, so try before you buy.
Edit: After reading all about the spice, the cardomom and the cinnamon, I can’t say I pick up the cinnamon–maybe cardomom. I get a strong black tea note, every so slightly menthylated up close, a bit of anise, along with a floralcy, more on the rose-powder side. with the ylang, the vanilla and Tonka smoothing it out. I find this now a more soothing scent, more relaxed, comforting and easy to wear every day, maybe for a romantic night out, but not seduction in high heels. I have three 5 ml samples from three sources (STC, PP, and the company itself). After these are gone, I’m now thinking I MIGHT get a FB. It is not in the vein of interlude of J25, but it’s a nice “reach for today” fragrance.
pavelwu – :
I managed to score a 50ml bottle of the non-magnetic cap, pre-reformulated version on eBay. It’s eyes roll in the back of the head swoon inducingly beautiful, so thick and creamy – like draping yourself in a heavy silk brocade cloak of luxury. 2 sprays is more than enough of this oily magical elixir.
It is an entirely different beast to the thin, scratchy imitation that’s on the shelves now, how Amouage can claim they have not changed the formulation I do not know – the difference in quality is obvious to even the most untrained nose.
I need to find more, (pre-reform) Lyric is signature scent worthy and I can never now be without it.
FreeTZ – :
It is pure drama, addictive, transcendent, noble. Something from beyond the tangible world. Prayer.
guigniche – :
Huge cardamom, even overshadowing cinnamon, on top of the instantly evident sandalwood. Later, a number of other spicy woods unfurl and some incense, too. To me, barely any rose at all. Rich (as in substantial, no pun on the cost intended), textured, hefty enough to pass easily as a suave men’s cologne. The comparisons to Malle’s Portrait of a Lady are very true and the reason why I will probably pass on it. I’m no rose warrior, I’m more of a rose pansy.
Uttesetat – :
FANTASTIC! I’ve got my Ubar and my Lyric two days ago. When I first tried them at home on a piece of paper and on a piece of satin they did not work properly. Both had a kind of dusty old house kind of smell. I felt to wast a lot of money. BUT ON SKIN!
A different world. Today we have a dump, rainy day here. I’m wearing Lyric. When I sprayed on for the first few minutes I haven’t feel anything.