Amouage Lyric Woman is one of the creations of Amouage artistic director, Christopher Chong. Launched. Amouage Lyric Woman is a dark, spice-filled rose oriental and makes me think of a Flamenca dancer, full of passion and fire, smoldering with sensuality, but absolutely all woman. The incense base grounds this flirt-machine, providing the ground on which she does her dance. Notes of cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, bergamot, rose, geranium, ylang, angelica, orris root, jasmine, incense, sandalwood, musk, woods, tonka gean, oakmoss, patchouli, vanilla and vetiver.
Luca Turin - "Great fragrances move me (and, I imagine, many others) to a sort of musical resonance. And in perfume as in music, progress largely consists of getting used to one novel dissonance after another. In this context, I can safely say that I have never smelled anything like the chord at Lyric’s chore. It is a rose, to be sure, cleverly extended at one end by a dry, dusty, woody accord in the manner of Lyric’s land of origin, Oman. What happens at the other end if a complete surprise. Where one expects a spicy, earthy uplift in the contemporary manner, there comes instead a plangent, overripe note, the exhalation of forgotten fruit in a sealed room. The effect is initially almost unpleasant but soon becomes celestial. Thelonius Monk would have understood this fragrance instantly."
Basenotes - "Like a high priestess of some ancient cult,this feminine potion of mystery is immersed in the smoky trail of incense via liturgical notes.But the lapping of floral(rose) notes and the dry opening provide the necessary balance,shifting it far off the ecclesiastical and into the boudoir. The final notes of powdery warmth radiate from the skin for hours on end.the scent reminds me of mature love.it is perfect for a classy night.maybe one of those dinner and a movie dates.if you want to seduce a special someone's sense of smell,this is the perfume that will leave a lingering and lasting impression of you on whomever is fortunate enough to experience it!"
Basenotes - "Lush dark roses, indolic muguet, dusty wood spices, sweetly fragrant incense. That's probably half the tale for this enchanting storyteller doesn't reveal the plot in a single wear. Lyric is an opulently gilded rose oriental, straight out of the pages of A Thousand and One Nights."
Fragrantica - "Hands down, the most beautiful and sexy rose perfume I have ever smelled, in my entire life. I own a sample of this scent and every time I remind myself about it and decide to retest it I think to myself, "Huh, I guess it's not as special as I remember". And then it dries down. Once it does that I'm intoxicated, powerless, nose glued to the wrist for the next several hours."
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| Perfume Name | Amouage Lyric Woman |
| Year Introduced | 2008 |
| Perfumer | Daniel Maurel |
| Gender | Feminine |
| Strength | EDP, eau de parfum |
| Notes | bergamot, cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, rose, angelica, jasmine, ylang ylang, geranium, orris, oakmoss, musk, wood, patchouli, vetiver, sandalwood, vanilla, tonka bean and frankincense |
| Country of Origin | Oman |
