Basmah Amouage

Basmah Amouage is an Amouage composition marketed as unisex. It opens resinous rather than fresh: French labdanum first, sticky and dark with a faint leathery sweetness, and amber beside it adding a warm, powdery resin, so the first impression is of balsam rather than of any top note in the usual sense. The middle softens and turns floral, rose deep and slightly jammy, musk skin-like around it, the two making a cushion between the resin and what follows. What stays is oud, medicinal and dark, with sandalwood creamy beneath it taking the hardest edges off the wood and carrying it quietly for hours. The character is warm, sweet-resinous and close-worn, a rose and oud arrangement with amber sitting over the whole of it. It suits cool weather, the evening, and formal or celebratory indoor settings.

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