Composed by Alexis Grugeon and Hamid Merati-Kashani, Opus XV King Blue joined Amouage’s Library Collection in 2023. Conceived as a surrealist work, it opens on a luminous mandarin, pink pepper and blackcurrant, moves to olibanum and amber, and reveals an animalic base of Oud Silver, sandalwood, oak wood, patchouli and leather.
Alexis Grugeon and Hamid Merati-Kashani first give voice to a bright mandarin, made to sparkle by pink pepper and sharpened by blackcurrant. The heart pairs olibanum with amber, whose sensual tones extend the mandarin, running against the so-called blue fragrances, polite and conventional by nature.
An animalic oud
Oak wood brings its woody facet, and Oud Silver soon takes over, almost ferociously animalic yet remarkably refined. Sandalwood, patchouli and leather surround it in this base, which the house classifies among the fruity ambery woody fragrances.
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