INTERLUDE MAN - AMOUAGE
🕯️ Interlude Man – Amouage (2012) 💧 Eau de Parfum | 🔥 Oriental Woody 👃 Perfumer: Pierre Negrin 📂 GCMS Club Collection – Archives Gilbert Bendoni 📦 Molecular Count: 70+
💨 The Chaos Accord
Interlude Man isn’t a fragrance — it’s a burning cathedral in a bottle. Created by Pierre Negrin for Amouage, this 2012 release is a smoky, resinous, and orchestral composition, inspired by the idea of harmony within chaos. It opens with a blaze of oregano, pepper, and bergamot, then plunges into a heart of incense, amber, and opoponax, before settling into a leathery, woody base of oud, patchouli, and sandalwood.
This GCMS reconstruction reveals the full molecular drama: cedar in triplicate, resins layered like stained glass, and musks that hum like low organ notes. It’s not a scent — it’s a ritual.
🪞 The Vibe
- 🔥 Incense storm: Olibanum, opoponax, styrax, cade, thyme
- 🌲 Woody cathedral: Cedarwood (Virginia, Atlas, terpenes), guaiacwood, sandalwood, vetiveryl acetate
- 🪔 Ambered glow: Ambercore, ambrox, ambrocenide, vanillin, heliotropin
- 🧂 Spiced tension: Cardamom, black pepper, allspice, cumin
- 🧬 Musky smoke: Galaxolide, exaltolide, habanolide, L-muscone
- 🌿 Herbal lift: Bergamot, lavender, rosemary, neroli, red thyme
- 🧪 Fixative finesse: Dipropylene glycol, triethyl citrate, pyralone, suederal
🎩 Collector’s Capsule
This version is part of the GCMS Club Collection, decoded from early 2012 batches and archived by Gilbert Bendoni. It preserves the original orchestration before later reformulations softened the edges. Negrin’s signature is unmistakable: layered density, earthy tension, and a refusal to dilute the drama.
It’s not a perfume for everyone. It’s a statement for those who burn slow and speak in smoke.
🎬 Ready for scent reels, incense edits, or olfactory storytelling
INCENSE. ORDER. DISORDER. This is Interlude Man — and it doesn’t whisper. It engulfs. 🕯️🔥🧪🖤⛪