i just sent an email to wendy
requesting a sample, but before that i stupidly ordered a sample of 5 of their colognes from another website for 30
dollars because i couldnt find wendys email
i just sent an email to wendy
requesting a sample, but before that i stupidly ordered a sample of 5 of their colognes from another website for 30
dollars because i couldnt find wendys email
Is wendy's email still
wendy<at>amouage.com? and have you heard back from her?
Last edited by CptKipling; 12-22-2005 at 03:45 PM. Reason: removing email to stop spam-bots
yes thats still her email, and i
just heard back she said she would send me the male samples
Thanks. I love the smell of this
stuff.
Originally Posted by DrSmellThisCan DrSmellThisOriginally Posted by cookiemonster
comment on this? Since he was the original poster?
I was interested in Amouage Gold until I saw this - did they
change to synthetics or are they still truely using real animal fixatives like musk and just covering their ass?
Seems unlikely...
Still seems weird for them to be using synthetic ambergris - when as far as I can tell their is
no international restrictions on the import and export of Ambergris - especially when it is certified “flotte” -
from floating.
Where did you see this?
I
check the Amouage site and cant find it.
Amouage.com > Perfumery Heritage >
Complexity of Creation.
Yeah,
I see it now.
Thats
strange, I think that they boasted some years ago that only had natural ingredients.
I actually still have
some Gold samples left (I got them before they started to charge for them and helped Wendy with a virus problem as
well, which prompted her to send me more samples as a thank you...I even got a Christmas card one year...) and the
musk in there doesnt seem to be artificial muscone, but I may be wrong.
IMHO Gold is not my type of scent
anyway and the musk scent reminds me somewhat of urine...
I think they just made the switch
away from animal ingredients about 1 to 2 years ago, based on when their public statement changed.
I've been really getting into
fragrences lately (thanks to Basenotes.com, well my bank account isn't exactly thankful).
I once thought
that Amouage was the best (I still think its great), but now I've discovered L'Artisan, Lorenzo Villaresi, Porfumi
De Firenze, Bond Number 9, Etro and others which are in the same class as Amouage
Now its over 5 years old and still good reading. As usual DrSmellThis
provides interesting and worthwhile discussions. The thread is quite long, but has a host of good info if you have
an hour to browse it.
Thanks bivonic for posting the link.
I've been wearing Amouage "Gold" and "Dia" for a
few months now. Gold really is quite remarkable, and I don't know of another scent like it (two understatements).
Dia is dryer and less intoxicatingly rich.
If you're under 40, you might get away with Dia, but probably not
Gold.
Gold is a masculine floral scent, like Doc said in his opening post, and it opens so brightly on the skin
at first application that even the shiniest 25 yr old blonde smile is dim in comparison. But don't be fooled by
the first 5 seconds, it takes about that long for dozens of seamlessly blended ingredients to start messing with
you. On those nights when I plan to wear it, I feel good just thinking about spraying it on.
The drydown lasts
forever, and changes ever so subtly from bright, to rich to sultry. Its incredible how the rose works with the musk
and even softens the animalic civet in its powdery way. Make no mistake, this is a deep and sexy damned
fragrance.
It smells like your wife wants you to smell walking along the shore on an August night after a lobster
dinner with strains of Miles Davis drifting from the beach-house just ahead. Even better if that's the house where
you're staying.
Other than Gold and Dia, I've tried Ciel and Jubilation (their newest). Not much to
report. Ciel is brash, and I'd rather wear pure Oud than Jubilation, maybe with a dab of Sandawood or
Musk.
There are other truly great fragrances, and as Doc said, what's best for you may be different. From a
perfumery point of view though, Amouage Gold is a high standard against which other compositions can be rated.
Other fragrances want to be something completely different, to achieve different goals. Many of those are great in
their own right.
A light summer daytime everyday fragrance I'm really enjoying these days is Hermes Eau
d'Orange Verte. Works great over SoE and C7.
I have tried the samples, very
nice scent.
After doing more research at basenotes, I ended up
getting:
Millésime Impérial
by Creed
I like that one a lot bivonic, I
only wish it had more staying power.
Basenotes is an invaluable
resource.
http://www.basenotes.net/
Where is a good online place
to buy Amouage Gold for a good price?
I got a good tax refund and decided to buy
Reflection with some of the proceeds.
I'm pretty impressed with the smell, my advice to anyone considering
buying Gold is to get the sample kit first and compare some of the other scents first.
Reflection in my
opion is a better option and ranks up there with Dia.
DCW
Wholeheartedly agree with DCW,
try some samples first. You have to live with a scent for a while before springing the big bucks on something like
Amouage. I've bought very few scents "blind".
davidskch, you just have to look around the net to find a deal,
if you can even find one. Even on ebay Gold goes for US$200 or better. Try a search and look around a LOT before
you buy ANY fragrance.
My first post
since reading this forum for less than 2 months!
I recently bought a sample kit of Amouage and Gold smells the
best. Women's Gold smells like baby powder, but nice too!
You can get it from:
http://www.classyperfumes.com/
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