Signed by Annick Ménardo, Overture Woman was released in 2020 as the feminine counterpart to Overture Man. Amouage pays tribute to the modern woman and to the emotion of the opera: bergamot, saffron and a calvados accord with apple give way to centifolia rose, myrrh, geranium and cinnamon, over incense, labdanum and leather.
Persolaise sees a strange and unfathomable creature; Lauryn Beer, for ÇaFleurBon, a smoky bombshell fuelled by calvados, the most overtly boozy of Amouage’s fragrances.
What critics say
Persolaise, September 7, 2020
For Persolaise, Annick Ménardo has fashioned “a strange, opaque, unfathomable beast,” setting apple, tinged with calvados, against rose and leather. The leather threatens to pull everything into Arabian clichés, “but that never quite happens”; a worthy counterpart to Overture Man.
Lauryn Beer, ÇaFleurBon, July 30, 2022
Lauryn Beer describes “a smoky, calvados-fueled bombshell,” the most overtly boozy of Amouage’s fragrances. In the hands of Annick Ménardo, saffron “smells compellingly delicious,” and calvados brings brandied pippin apples, both sweet and tart.
She compares Overture Woman to Rossini, “a boisterous, boozy frolic,” and perceives a smooth, genderless leather, a smoky incense and a resinous base of benzoin, myrrh and labdanum. Her conclusion: “it’s going to be grand.”
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