In the same way I found Amouage Interlude and Amouage Beloved perplexingly beautiful, Amouage Bracken Woman goes in that same spot. As Anita noted, it has the half-life of weapons grade plutonium. It reminds me of something or a memory for like a second and then it turns. This is uniquely beautiful and not really like anything else I’ve smelled.
She says, “the whole thing coalesces into what I can only describe as the smell that comes from bringing in florists’ carnations from the chiller and setting them in a vase along with garden Dianthus – it smells of carnation but only in that way that carnation smells of Spring.” I read Anita’s review of Amouage Bracken Woman after I tried this like three times, hoping she would help me out, but no. But a great shoe leather pulled out of a great bog. Just about the time I want to stick it over in the floral with a funky and uniquely great dissonance, I get the leather and I guess bracken? Like shoe leather pulled up out of the bog.
The birch is an unusual and discordant riff off of the florals. I am trying to sort this into some olfactory category or another, and Amouage Bracken Woman is refusing to square up to go into that round hole. Not sure the date? Notes of bracken accord, wild berries, lily, narcissus, camomile, smoky leather, patchouli, vetiver and birch are the listed notes. Amouage Bracken Woman is due to be released in early 2017.