Description
Amouage presents a new fragrant pair in 2011 – Honour Woman and Honour Man. These perfumes are dedicated to the tragic story of Madame Butterfly, the geisha Cio-Cio-San who married an American and waited for his return for three years. More specifically, the inspiration for the new creations was drawn from the last act of the eponymous opera in which Madame commits suicide.
Honour Woman is a fragrance of white flowers and resins. White flowers symbolize the progress of unrequited love. The composition was created by Alexandra Carlin and Violaine Collas. Top notes are spices of pepper, rhubarb and coriander. The heart captures flowers of tuberose, jasmine, gardenia, lily of the valley and carnation. The base is oriental with notes of frankincense, vetiver, opoponax, amber and leather.
Available as 50 and 100 ml EDP:
dema122 – :
Gardenia and tuberose, creamy, elegant and refined. A good example of Amouage high quality. I wouldn’t decline a bottle if it were a gift but I would be unlikely to spend the $$ because it’s just not a unique stand out for me.
Still, it’s beautiful.
kleba79 – :
Love at first whiff! It smells like you’re swimming in a river filled with white flowers or like a big big bouquet of white flowers in a vase. Lovely!
ilyaneo – :
Very wax-y, thick gardenia based white floral. It smells almost like a floral candle.
Gardenia + mock orange + green apple + wax.
Jiffspeessnub – :
Dewy, spicy floral. Love this much in first 5 min im wearing it. Not in your face perfume, but high quality indeed. Now it melts on my neck skin. Delicious, juicy floral boquet 🙂
koksik – :
I was hoping for a big white floral.
However, my skin chemistry amplified a spicy undertone, I cannot explain what note could it have been, only that it’s an accord very recognisable as Amouage. In fact the white florals were way in the background on me.
Good sillage and longevity.I also got the aquatic feel as other reviews mentioned, ugh I don’t like this vibe at all:/
NIKITA14 – :
Hypnotic floral. Big, sweet, slightly soapy white floral. Not particularly earth-shattering but, as I’m a sucker for these big florals, I’m really enjoying it, especially the opening. It’s a sweet, somewhat heavy floral, similar to Hypnotic Poison but nowhere near as overwhelming. Yes, Honour is not particularly original or interesting. However, as it’s an Amouage, it’s is made of the highest quality ingredients. Is it worth the price tag? Probably not, but I’m really enjoying myself regardless. Exuberant and luxurious.
sia23 – :
What’s strange about this perfume is that the scent kept changing by the hour on my skin. The first time I sprayed it on, i thought it was just another floral fragrance, nothing special here…. . But that night, honour changed into something else, it became creamy and so alluringly wonderful, I can’t get enough of. the longer I had it on my skin, the better it gets.
I’m not sure if it bears any similarity with Aurum. I happen to own Aurum as well. Perhaps later I’ll spray on each wrist to compare. But both perfumes are equally beautiful and long lasting on me for sure.
pmt567intitytek – :
backstory: i was in berlin a couple years ago and had a couple drinks at the ritz carlton, which had a whole bar based on perfume, and i had the honour drink (which was so good.) i initially hadn’t had honour on my wishlist, but after that experience, i knew i had to try it.
this starts off green and grassy with white florals. gardenia seems to be the most prominent. i love gardenia, but green notes and my skin chemistry don’t always get along, and i think that’s what is happening here-i get a bit of a headache from this because my skin seems to amp up the green notes. this seems like a bit of an homage to big bold floral 80s scents. it’s very pretty, though i’m just not sure how much i could wear it.
Ilya_soloduhin – :
This is my first Amouage. A blind buy.
I am a total white floral Jasmine tuberose fan so I thought I wouldn’t go wrong. However,
This was a disappointment.
I don’t hate it. But I had high expectations.
It’s VERY weak.
I don’t like how it turns into old woman perfume in the end.
If you want whitefloral woody mix go for Bikini Questa sera by Louboutin, or Jasmine rouge by Tom Ford. Jasmine Rouge especially beats this by MILES.
cheapestwowgoldhez – :
Here’s a simple review.
I love this fragrance, top notes are stunning, but the base is confusing due to how green it is. I literally smell fresh grass and that’s gross.
I smell no incense whatsoever, maybe its just me though.
Price is too high for such scent.
ريحته خفيفة وحلوة في البداية بس بعد مرور الوقت، الخضار اللي فيه يبرز أكثر وأبدا أحس اني عايشة فحديقة 🙁
وسعره غالي مقارنةً بريحته بما انها ريحة خفيفة ومش مميزة ذاك الزود
HILLONTER – :
Amouage perfumes really are their own creatures. Honour Woman does white floral in a big unapologetic way and I love that. Some people might want to classify this as an older lady perfume. I think it’s just an amazing compilation of white flowers done well with rhubarb thrown in to break the sweetness.To me, the gardenia, tuberose, jasmine, and lily of the valley beckon me into an adult scent.Not old lady, not teenager, but a woman who is ready to take on the world. This perfume make me feel dignified and powerful, like it really could be me doing the conquering.
adverty – :
From the first spray- this was a love.
Its gentle white floral are like blossoms floating down a river where dreams and wishes are made. Its aquatic freshness- is perfection.
I live in a hot climate, and white florals can lean heavy in such areas. Honour is a perfect, elegant cooling white floral antidote to the unrelenting heat. The delicate, clean approach won my heart instantly. Blooms in the heat.
dimidrol150992 – :
Nice floral scent, elegant, office safe. Unfortunately, wow factor is not there.
cee753JeomiWogkig – :
What I love about Honour Woman is there are times it is a green white floral, and there are times it is creamy. I do not know which I am going to get but both are equally lovely. It’s very long lasting on me with moderate sillage and projection on cold days and heavy on hot weather.
unascurfals – :
Honour Woman Amouage for women
احد اروع العطور النسائية التي يصعب أﻻ تحوز اﻻعجاب بل اﻻنبهار بفتنته وروعة توليفته
ﻻول مرة تتمكن الجاردينا بمساعدة الياسمين من تقييد دور التيوب روز
الزنابق هنا شيء غاية في حسن التوظيف
بعض الراتينج والعنبر والبخور وكأنه التوقيع الخاص بأمواج
لتخرج توليفة غاية في اﻻتقان
فقط اراه يصلح للسيدات اكثر من الفتيات الصغيرات
طبعا السيدات الصغيرات برضه
فمن ذا الذي يستطيع ان يجترئ ويقول ان هناك امرأة تجاوز عمرها ال 32 عاما
mama007007 – :
Great gardenia frutal.
Summer, near the sea and when the sunset arrives, everything lights up with this smell of gardenias, gardenias combined with the heady aroma of a nard with a soft animal facet, meanwhile, a group of people gathered open and eat a refreshing watermelon and Very sweet, everything is mixed in the environment and the sensations become magical, unique and very special.
Amouage brings us the gardenia of the sunset, very realistic, is an aroma that reborn every afternoon with all the power of a narcotic flower, is very alive, with aquatic facets, is very sensual and that sweet and fruity effect makes it irresistible and tremendously Feminine
I loved it.
Rating: 9.1
tutinka – :
This is the big, white floral for people who don’t especially like big, white florals. Lots of gardenia – maybe too much for my taste – with a bit of rhubarb to cut the cloying sweetness.
Disappointingly, this never becomes an Oriental for me. Trying to compare this with other Floral Orientals really shows how far off this perfume is categorized. Try imagining this next to L’Heure Bleue, Sheherazade, Black Orchid, Opium Vapeurs, Boucheron or Euphoria…or anything else in the Oriental Floral category. Honour just does not fit that group. Honour is a big, white floral. Let’s just be okay with that.
As a floral, it’s not the best and not the worst and not really worth the price it commands. It’s nice enough, but not a favorite.
ganja61 – :
This is based on a Notino sample:
Goes on sharp and slightly melancholy, but then sweetens up a bit.
Unfortunately, initially, the carnation is too much, for me.
I think my skin must amp carnation, which is unfortunate.
As, although I don’t mind it on the flower, I don’t really want to smell entirely, or even mostly, of carnations.
Then a soapy note quickly appears that I’m, also, not so keen on.
It’s the lily of the valley and that then becomes the enduring centre of this fragrance, for me.
I think Honour (at least, near the beginning) smells very much like a National Trust Lily of the Valley soap, on my skin.
Suddenly had a vision of the inside of a National Trust shop I used to go to with my mum, as a child/teen!
It’s not unpleasant.
In fact, it’s really quite pretty, in an oldy worldy, very English, kind of way.
However, it’s not for me.
Even though I am English, I don’t tend to go for Olde English, soapy scents (lavender, lily of the valley etc.).
I like slightly more exotic, or tropical, fragrances and was hoping for more tuberose (it’s definitely there, but it’s not winning) and a lot less carnation and lily of the valley.
If you do like the idea of a very traditional, British fragrance and either like, or don’t tend to amp those notes, this may well be one for you, though.
Honour does, in due course, become slightly less about those two flowers and more generically slightly sweet, on me; but, to be honest, it’s not particularly interesting, at that stage, as nothing much stands out.
Apart from a slightly gentler version of the lily of the valley (thank goodness), mixed with a mainly nectar-like suggestion of tuberose.
Pleasant enough, but rather dull, frankly.
Haven’t really reached the true drydown, yet – will add a comment on that if it is particularly notable, in any way.
All in all, not for me, but may well be very nice on others.
OrvilleIng04 – :
Honour Woman has a sweet and fruity white floral open with lots of jasmine and tuberose. The notes were blended nicely, but not over-blended with a high projection. The middle softens, and stays fairly linear. It projects a bit more than a skin scent at six hours. It is an amazing, well-made white floral perfume.
yulyabez88 – :
Honour Woman is from 2011 and arrived along with the male version of the same name. Both fragrances were designed to portray the tragic story of Madame Butterfly, who speaks about the love of the geisha Cio-Cio-San for the US Navy Lieutenant Benjamin Pinkerton, and her anguish and waiting for three years, culminating in her suicide.
As the concept behind the fragrance says: “In honour of truth and beauty, her poetic love and sorrow echo eternally.”
In the official composition there are notes of pepper, rhubarb leaves and coriander, followed by the body notes of jasmine, tuberose, gardenia, lily of the valley and carnation, on a base with notes of vetiver, amber, opoponax, Leather and frankincense.
On the skin, Honour Woman is a delicious white floral, very well balanced, sweet to the right measure and smoky by the fall of the petals. There is no much innovation and, for this reason, I will not invent unnecessary compliments. Here, we have a white floral, very well elaborated and created on the same standards as always, with a small difference (which is not so small): the famous white triad, composed of jasmine + tuberose + ylang-ylang, gained a peculiar touch, in which the latter gave place to a new member – the gardenia – that brought less power and more luminosity.
The result is a scent that revolves around the body notes, with much presence of jasmine and tuberose and a lot of control of the indolic nuances, balanced by the green facets of the lily and the natural elegance of the gardenia. However, I can hardly believe that there is any presence of vetiver and leather. The fragrance slowly evolves, becoming incensed by sweet-myrrh (opoponax) and frankincense. Nothing more than this. It also exudes and lasts a lot, in addition to combining with sunny days and spring nights.
The story of Madame Butterfly may even be sad, but the fragrance created to represent it is beautiful.
ipz602InsuffBooni – :
I quite enjoy select white florals, but I hate all aquatic fragrances so far. I am retesting this years after first stabbing it on and tossing it to the back of my sample drawer. It smells like an expensive rendition of a green hotel shampoo using some high end white florals to offset the sharpness. Problem is, it’s not harmonious. Look at all of the notes…Thirteen listed and the sharpest stand out, especially coriander. This is a relatively sweet white floral that is heady but not heavy. But wow, ridiculously harsh! This doesn’t smell elegant to me. I don’t think they used calones, but the sharpness here reminds me of the way that perfumes like Cool Water smack you in the nose.
VeniaminBartsov – :
Afther an hour or so got such strong aquatic vibes i even had to wash it of. Didn’t get to the oriental i guess…
HabDrassy – :
Very pretty and very feminine. This seems to me what a true “southern belle” would wear. A good girl like Olivia D’Havilland’s character, Melli, in Gone With the Wind. Not Scarlet. She’s a bad girl! The prominent flower is creamy gardenia, freshened up with the clever addition of rhubarb. This projects, and one spray is plenty for me. As with all Amouage perfumes the quality of the ingredients is evident. If you love gardenia this should be on your radar.
stress – :
The combination of white florals with rhubarb is genius. Gardenia seems to be the star player of the assortment of white flowers offered in this fragrance, much to my delight. The base is, importantly, non-vanillic oriental (vanilla would have been too much in this composition – the creamy white flowers are entirely enough!). Delightful.
Nelik – :
Sample n.4 from my Amouage set.
This is, for a change, a fruity floral I can wear. The rhubarb and leather remind me of L’Art de la Guerre from Jovoy, like Honour was the female version of that scent.
I don’t get anything aquatic from it. It would be a love if my skin didn’t amplify the rhubarb so much.
Overall a very refreshing, young fragrance. By young I don’t mean it’s girly, just that I would wear it in spring when everything is green and growing.
Forest320 – :
When I made my selection last month to get Amouage Honor from my subscription service I only saw one minor aquatic reference out of all the reviews. If only Rhaineclayton’s review had appeared sooner!
I won’t even try to give this a proper review since all things calone react badly on me, but be warned: Amouage Honor has a quite distinct and heavy aquatic note.
almolod – :
Starts off like a white floral but quickly turns to something slightly aquatic, reminding me of Issey Miyake (not the same, just some similarity).
Not bad but not my favourite Amouage.
SmaraVona – :
Very polite scent. Delicate white floral, clean, lily-of-the-vally and gardenia are the most detectable on my skin. Almost no silage, and low staying power. Elegant and well-blended, and utterly boring.
It is so unremarkable so I can’t see any reason or note in this to justify the gigantic price. Usually I love white flowers and delicate perfumes – Chanel Gardenia is one of my favourites. But Honour Woman is just nothing, it’s like clothes from the King’s new clothes fairytale – it is supposed to be there, but it is not.
I didn’t have high hopes on this so I’m not really disappointed, just feel I wasted a space on my wrist to test something really worthwhile.
viking2010 – :
This smells so refined and elegant, not overbearing but complex and very white floral. Not too sweet either, and great lasting. Amouage always delivers, this is my second favourite Amouage scent.
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Trahun – :
Gardenias! If you love ’em, you got ’em here. High quality, long lasting. Very nice.
tramerstendss – :
One of the bests in white floral notes for floral scent lovers…. I got the best compliments every time when i use it among my own having perfumes, it has a heavy scent but actually light and not annoying, incredibly gourgeous feminine, love it ❤️ Long lasting and heavy sillage… Fancy and dreamy
يعني يكي از بهترين عطراي گلي هست كه بو كردم در حيني كه سنگينه و بوش توو اتاق چنروز ميمونه اما در عين حال لطيفو روياييه، بوش ادمو غرق ميكنه ، هربار كه زدم توجه همه رو به خودش جلب كرده واقعا موندگاريشم خيلي بالاس پخششم واقعا قويه دائما مشام ادم رو پر ميكنه
665770 – :
This is the second Amouage I’ve tried, and although this smells better than the last one, it still doesn’t impress me.
I put this on my skin, as well as my shirt, just to see the difference. On both, it opens with a sharp, screechy, scent. Within a few minutes that fades and it starts to smell like a clean, white floral. At this point I started to have some hope for this perfume. Unfortunately, on my skin, it gets a weird, synthetic, air freshener smell. It’s like a combination of pairing the ‘clean scent’ laundry detergent and dryer sheets; it becomes a bit of an overkill. It is very long lasting on my skin, and although I haven’t scrubbed it, I find myself hoping that this will just fade away entirely, very soon.
On my shirt…, it is a different storey altogether. As I said before, it does have that same harsh, screechy opening, but when that fades away it leaves a pleasant white floral scent. It gets a bit softer as the time goes on, and it starts getting a creamy, salty scent. On my shirt there is a similarity to Paco Rabanne’s Olympea.
Apparently I like my white florals to get a bit warmer and creamier during the dry down, instead of straying towards the clean/synthetic smell, which is why this one isn’t really for me.
It’s been 9 hours at least now, and it is still going strong on both my skin, and my shirt. So longevity is not an issue for me. Sillage is probably within a couple of feet.
61igor – :
I love tuberose,gardenia,jasmin &… But I usually can’t get along well with white floral dominated fragrances,I find some of them very sharp,soapy or old ladyish,also white florals have an indolic creamyness that after passege of time becomes boring and cloying for me
Amouage honour is one of few white floral scents that I love
It opens with spicy notes which calm down in seconds to a superlovely white floral cream with a hint of rhuburb,a sour and sweet fruity note that balances indolics,,I find it very luxurious soft,silky creamy,rich without being old and with a touch of sweetness,not too much
It’s bright and perfect for spring and even summer
Rhuburb is a key note here,which adds naughtyness to white florals pure and innocent feeling
Longevity is great and sillage is more than moderat
I love this white pure spring scent,just as it’s chic bottle,it’s scent is also white with a touch of gold,a thanks god there is no heavyness,no arabic vibe here
This is my first amouage love❤
ffy094intitytek – :
It’s funny – close to the skin, this is all jasmine & incense. But from far away, when you catch its trail, it smells like light flowers and suede! very reminiscent of Jo Malone’s Peony & Blush Suede.
I imagine this would be very work-appropriate. Classy, light (not weak) clean and feminine.
KaZZZulka – :
یه وقتا عطرایی به تورمون میخورند که وقتی استفادش میکنیم باید گفت احست به نبوغ سازنده این عطر !!!ا
امواج هانر زنانه عطر فوقالعاده خوشبو , نرم و پرپری هست و لطافت کم نظیری دارد .همچون بستری از حریر و ابریشم
عطر مطلقا گلی و سرزنده و ابدار با نیمچه اشاره از بخورو ادویه جات
اغازی ادویه ای دارد که سریع عوض میشود و بوی قوی گلها مریم و گاردنیا و …پیدا میشوند
از کیفیت بالای گلها درگذریم میریسیم به ریواس که نقطه درخشان این عطر و نبوغ عطرساز ان هست
استفاده گلها به صورت غالب و برجسته در عطر نیاز به درک درستی از این گلها است . القای بو و حس ابدار و سرزنده بودن از نیازهای مهم و اصلی یک عطر فلورالاست و گرنه چنین عطرهایی به بوی نه چندان جالب و همچنین ادماس مانند تبدیل میشوند
ریواس در امواج هانر مهمترین مکمل است و عطار به خوبی دانسته که به چه اندازه در عطرش استفاده کند
گلدار و شیرینی کم بسیار مطلوب و ابدار
ماندگاری تا چند روز
پخش بوی ملایم
5/5
Smell very fragrant and beautiful.Very soft and velvety fragrance.
Like a bed of silk and velvet.This is a beautiful lady
Transparent smooth combination of flowers
Tuberose . Gardanya and …Start hot and spice that Immediately marginalized by Flowers .
But here’s the rhubarb to good use .Has created a fragrant aroma and juicy wet .
Rhubarb is a milestone in this perfume.
sla888 – :
“Con onor muore Chi non può serbar vita Con onore” One dies with honor who could not live a life with honor” – Madame Butterfly, Puccini opera finale
I have Cio Cio San by MDCI Parfums which I love very much and I feel it better represents Madame Butterfly but this fragrance by Amourage is also a beautiful description of the tragic Geisha. This opens up with spice notes typical of the Oriental fragrances: coriander and pepper. The white floral heart is mostly jasmine and gardenia to my nose but the tuberose is very clearly there as is the carnation. These are all very strong flowers which have the magic power to change themselves and feel very different in every fragrance I’ve worn. On here the flowers are melancholic and sad like the flower petals that Madame Butterfly and Suzuki her servant sprinkled all around the cottage to welcome that polygamist Pinkerton. They are sad flowers of farewell. The little lily of the valley note is also coming off as very light soft and funereal. These could pass for white funeral flowers but they still smell very good! If it wasn’t for the base notes this fragrance would have worn like any ordinary white floral but the base is strong with notes I’m crazy about. They give the scent a very elaborate and strong foundation and substance. It’s got incense, opoponax vetiver leather and amber. They smell very perfumy very potent and even a bit on the unisex masculine side. This fragrance may read Honour Woman but it’s also for guys. This has a really strong incense note and it perfectly captures the Oriental spirit of the scent. Beautiful. Wears better in winter time because of the incense. It goes with formal evening wear. This was my first Amourage purchase and I love their fragrances.
Umka_75 – :
It’s elegant and delicious! I received a lot of compliments from other women regarding this perfume. Definitely worth the value.
Ястреб – :
strong tuberose and gardenia scent with great sillage.
بوی واضح گل مریم و گاردنیا داره. پخشش فوق العاده اس و بعد گذشت چندین ساعت ، به قوت تمام همه رو متوجه خودش میکنه.
TUNIK_D – :
In my opinion, this perfume is stunning. From the first time I sprayed Honour on my wrist I had the “ahhh” moment; what a gentle, unique beauty.
Essentially, on my skin, Honour is a light floral, not to be confused with ‘weak’, for this perfume has above-average strength (and frankly so it should for the price), and an almost aquatic feel which keeps it very fresh and stops it from being at all cloying or heavy. Sometimes fresh can be boring, but here it is not. It’s very elegant and classic and I would say one of the few fragrances I think most people would enjoy smelling on someone else.
I picture a beautiful, expensive bouquet of flowers (jasmine, tuberose, lily, gardenia) glistening from recent rainfall.
Above all, it makes me feel special when I wear it – and isn’t that what fragrance is about?
Highly recommend!
(accidentally logged out and posted this first as a guest, oops!)
Hitman23 – :
I’ve sampled Honour Man years ago, and didn’t like it unlike the other Amouage Man. Today, I received a sample of Honour Woman, this smells gorgeous, even if there is one (only one) flowery note that is similar to the one used in Sécrétions Magnifique, but in a great way!!!
Does anybody else smell similarities with l’Air du Temps?
naloxon maksimovich – :
I wore this perfume to a party last night and this time I applied it just to my clothes which made it last longer and stay truer to its original scent. I was amazed at just how gorgeous this was. It was a super lush, well-rounded, elegant, expensive, and sophisticated smelling floral. I like florals and I’ve tried quite a few (three of my favorite florals are Flowerbomb, Quelques Fleurs, and Organza – a floriental) and all of them are wonderful but Honour easily surpasses them all and in comparison, other florals like Kate Spade’s Walk on Air come across as a bit screechy. I don’t know if it’s a matter of ingredients or blending, but if I was looking for a floral for a special occasion, I would reach for this one first.
gori496 – :
Una splendida gardenia che si schiude con grazia, eleganza e discrezione. Soffusa e languida, è accompagnata da una tuberosa non squillante, ma dolce e raffinata.
Il profumo ha un’allure sofisticata e retro’, è morbido e resistente al tempo stesso.
D’Annunzio scriveva a Luisa Baccara, sua eterna amante, pianista sensibile e colta : “Stasera indossa la veste d’argento e lo scialle bianco e nero”.
Immagino questo scialle asperso di Honour Amouage, una femminilità d’altri tempi, un amore dolente, costante, idealizzato.
Un profumo di classe, per gardenia-addicted.
Evocativo e fine.
srgbrok – :
I expected this to be thicker, heavier, creamier, and more lush than it is. Not bad, but is instead very green, fresh, and aquatic.
dyrtip – :
I instantly fell in love with Honour Woman by Amouage! It opens with the most gorgeous, lush gardenia and sweet rhubarb scent that is a little nostalgic for me because it reminds me of that zebra gum – I believe it was called Fruit Stripe gum when I was a kid. After the initial opening calms down Honour smells like the original Christian Dior Poison on me, just without the honey note. I get a green tuberose with a mix of smokey-sweet incense and opoponax that has a subtle, yet ever present coriander note. I love that this has an elegant tropical vibe to it without being a teenaged sugar-fruit bomb. It’s luxurious, pure class all the way and I feel like I have a little piece of heaven with me every time I wear it!
ouq416speagoessenda – :
Beautiful oriental floral, opulent, but not overwhelming. Not sweet, not bitter, but very balanced. Great for specific occasions.
bodyvan – :
I am not really a white flowers kind of person– I love them on other people though. The first time I smelled Honour, I was smitten. I loved the greenness in the opening, but the drydown became too peppery and carnation-y on me for my liking. The second time I wore it, I felt like I was drowning, and didn’t think I would bother trying it again. However, today, I woke up craving it, some months later. Now it is hot out, and while I still don’t feel like it is very me, I realized that on fabric, the drydown smells a lot like the original Lauren from Ralph Lauren! I absolutely loved that scent as a teen, and I have missed it. It has a very similar density and sillage as well.
I think for those who love white flower scents, this would make a really nice everyday scent, as it is just so pretty. Nice for a wedding, too.
DDA – :
After having bought and used rather fast 4 times a 5 ml decant, I have bought a 100ml bottle, I love honour I love to smell it on myself, honour, lyric and memoir are the amouages that I like, with on first place Honour I hope I can keep it always in my collection
соуп – :
I am not a big tuberose/gardenia person, really, though I do love jasmine.. I have had issues with fracas (too screechy on my skin) and carnal flower (too green, though it may grow on me eventually), SL’s criminelle (too mentholy)… however. That being said, this scent may have converted me to a tuberose and gardenia lover!
It is just so, so, purely beautiful. It isn’t too soft (I wouldn’t be able to smell it if it was) and it manages to be both bold and easily noticed without being too loud or screechy. I don’t know how they did that. It comes off as a lovely, creamy, almost “buttery” feeling, heady bouquet. The pepper is not detectable to me at all, and it’s not “too” green (although it is fresh.) I absolutely love it, and have been plotting to get a bottle ever since I tried a sample.
I see many people writing reviews on here have changed their mind after sampling this a few times, so this is one I would advise reviewers to wait to develop and even sample a few times before forming an opinion. It just gets more and more beautiful as it remains on your skin, and seems lovelier each time I wear it.
master1000 – :
I have been searching high and low for gardenia since Marc Jacobs Essence was discontinued. I have beaten myself up for years for not buying a bottle back then. The issue is that I am so incredibly picky about the quality of gardenia perfumes because they MUST smell like the gardenia bushes from my childhood home, and these days they simply don’t craft perfumes that well anymore. I tried so many others–Michael Kors, Songes, Un Matin d’Orage, the new Kate Spade…nothing pleased me enough to buy a full bottle. Honour Woman, at long last, is the closest modern perfume I could find to a true gardenia. It is creamy and heady, with a hint of green. If I scrutinize, I can smell black peppercorns, but it blends so well that it does not bother me at all. I am very happy to have found this and to have received a small bottle in a swap.
PayK – :
I put this on blindly this morning without knowing the notes. I wore Epic yesterday and had assumed this one would be similar.
I am quite picky when it comes to white florals, since Fracas was my first love and the standard by which I compare every other white floral. This opened with a very loud green gardenia. Since I work with sensitive co-workers I thought I would have to wash it off. Yesterday’s Epic lasted well over 12 hours on me with a gorgeous frankincense that kept me enraptured all day long.
The heart got louder and louder, but then quickly settled into a gauzy veil of gardenia, tuberose, and jasmine. The gardenia is the star, and the tuberose is the co-star. I like my jasmine dirty, and I was hoping it would deepen the composition, but it didn’t showed up until almost the end.
The whole composition wears very cold, and feels very distant and formal. I like my tuberose either warm & sunshiney like in Balenciaga Michelle, warm and green like the hothouse smell of Carnal Flower, or warm, creamy and glamorous as in Fracas. This was cold and formal, so it’s not for me. My wallet is very happy.
Kudos to those who can pull it off.
MOISEY – :
White florals, fine green notes, carnation, spices and amber in the perfect amount and combination so that nothing would hurt anybody’s senses.
One of the finest things I’ve ever smelled in this category.
Mixan – :
Had high hopes for this, but I’m disappointed in this one….and I’m a white floral lover. I get no gardenia. I do (just!) get a lovely, indolic jasmine, a good muguet and tart green rhubarb but then to my nose the rest is swamped by too much coriander and a salty, dirty melon note which I hated so much that I had to scrub it after wearing it for 4 hours (at which point the grungy, seawater-soaked melon hadn’t even begun to subside!); after that, in the remains of the perfume on my wrist, I could at last smell sweet tuberose and resins, with a little frankincense, which was quite lovely.
To be honest, I haven’t “got” any of the Amouage perfumes I have tried so far, so for me the search continues.
kolesnik_i – :
Honour (def) high respect; esteem. I’d say that about sums up this beauties place in my wardrobe.
Despite the white floral holy trinity notes(gardenia, jasmine, tuberose) nestle snugly in the heart of this creation, Honour Woman’s beauty is more of an expression of notes not so overtly endearing.
For me,it is the coriander…the pepper….the tart rhubarb which pull me back, time and again. They take on the role of celebrating the white florals, uplifting them and preventing the thick, sometimes suffocating effect of strong florals. Here the white floral notes are not allowed to be too creamy. They have been made slightly dusty and a tad spicy by the coriander and pepper and bittersweet by the juicy rhubarb. Perfect, really.
Honour Woman stays on my skin forever and if you are really lucky, and some days I am, Honour Woman’s beautiful combination of notes become ever so animalic on the skin. I love how it smells on my skin mixed with my day. My skin, but better….indeed.
naro92 – :
I got a sample of Honour from DaisyM (thank you :)) and OMG, I fell in love right away. This is THE fragrance for us who loves white florals. Honour is not the big ballsy one: It’s soft like a silk veil, wonderfully balanced and blended, sweet, powdery with moderate notes of incense, balsam and fresh rhubarb.
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