THE LIBRARY COLLECTION OPUS X - AMOUAGE

Opus X – Amouage 📆 Launch Year: 2016 💧 Concentration: Eau de Parfum 🌹 Olfactive Family: Oriental Floral 🧪 GCMS Club Collection – Archives Gilbert Bendoni 📦 Number of Ingredients: 53

A scent of blood and varnish — if tragedy could sing, this would be its concerto.

It opens with a crescendo of rose facets: Rose Oxide, Phenylethyl Alcohol and Geraniol 900 bleed together into a red-petal metallic accord, as if iron-laced blooms were dipped in scarlet lacquer. The effect is almost pictorial, evoking the violin’s lacquered surface in The Red Violin.

🌿 In the heart, green-toned molecules—Citronellol, Linalool, Nerol 900—meld with Hedione to form a dense, waxy tapestry. Canthoxal and Labdanum Absolute lend a resinous, metallic echo, like varnish drying on aged wood.

🔥 The base reveals smoked cedar (Virginian and Atlas), Ebanol and a whisper of synthetic civet, underscored by Vanillin and Ethyl Vanillin’s soft sweetness. These warm resins and dry woods conjure leather-polished chords and the faint glow of amber, never suffocating but endlessly dramatic.

🧍‍♀️ Not just floral or woody. A metallic-rose epic—dark, opulent, and hauntingly unforgettable.

✅ GC-MS interpreted ✅ High-fidelity formula ✅ A rose painted with blood, music, and memory.