Fate Man 2013

Fate Man by Amouage
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7.3 / 10 316 Ratings
A perfume by Amouage for men, released in 2013. The scent is spicy-oriental. Projection and longevity are above-average. It was last marketed by Sabco Group / Oman Perfumery.
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Main accords

Spicy
Oriental
Woody
Smoky
Resinous

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
CuminCumin SaffronSaffron AbsinthAbsinth Mandarin orangeMandarin orange GingerGinger
Heart Notes Heart Notes
Copaiba balsamCopaiba balsam Everlasting flowerEverlasting flower Frankincense resinFrankincense resin RoseRose CistusCistus French spike lavenderFrench spike lavender
Base Notes Base Notes
LiquoriceLiquorice LabdanumLabdanum CedarwoodCedarwood SandalwoodSandalwood MuskMusk Tonka beanTonka bean

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7.3316 Ratings
Longevity
8.9256 Ratings
Sillage
8.2266 Ratings
Bottle
9.2272 Ratings
Value for money
6.686 Ratings
Submitted by Merlina, last update on 07/05/2025.

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Wusubi

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Wusubi
Wusubi
Helpful Review 8  
Do you like cumin?
If your answer is yes, you'll probably enjoy Fate Man. It's discontinued, but the search was worth my time and money. Ignore the exaggerated reviews - while the opening is aromatic, it's not repulsive in any shape or form.

Overture Man ventures into body odor direction as cumin blends with grapefruit, but Fate Man keeps it rather clean. The opening focuses on freshly-ground cumin mixed with saffron and wormwood. This gives it herbal and medicinal nuances.

As someone who hates medicinal notes with a burning passion, I can assure you that it's actually pleasant. It doesn't smell synthetic and it doesn't remind me of cough medicine. The sweetness manages to balance out the pungent spices.

This phase lasts for about 90 minutes with moderate projection. Afterwards, cumin lingers in the background, while the medicinal facets morph into a fougère-ish structure of soapy lavender and tonka bean. I also get a bit of tobacco from the mix of immortelle and tonka.

Similarly to many Karine Vinchon-Spehner's perfumes, you can expect superb sandalwood. In this case, its smooth woodiness is complemented by warm qualities of copaiba balsam and labdanum, along with a delicate touch of slightly sweet and spicy licorice.

Fate Man is a complex blend with three stages where contrasting notes work in harmony. The performance is adequate; it lasts for 8 hours with 2 hours of projection before drying down to a creamy skin scent. Try to find a bottle before it's too late!
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Gold

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Helpful Review 5  
Cumin-immortelle couple
If you don't like the smell of cumin and immortelle, "Amouage Fate MAN" will probably turn out a "difficult fragrance" for your nose - as it is for mine. Cumin, ginger and hints of saffron make this perfume extremely spicy, and the "sweaty" aspects of cumin can be felt up to the dry-down. "El Attarine" by Lutens springs to my mind, although the Lutens fragrance is even stronger on the cumin than "Fate". The heart of "Fate" features immortelle coupled with licorice, and merged with sandalwood and musk. The spiciness is still there, although subdued. All the chords are blended seamlessly, the fragrance becomes more rounded and the pungent, sharp notes vanish. "Fate" is a high-quality blend, but unfortunately, it features several components I don't like, no matter how well they are integrated into a scent. Amouage's latest fragrance is neither particularly exciting nor daring, it is a cumin-immortelle couple with a deep, spicy (and rather foody!) feel to it. Contrary to other Amouage fragrances "Fate" is neither dark nor mysterious and it is far from being experimental. Btw, the bottle is gorgeous, if only the fragrance was more interesting for me...
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INDIGOSPHINX

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INDIGOSPHINX
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ABSOLUTELY REPULSIVE
Man.. I know some folk maybe upset with me for this review so please hear me out.
We all have different taste

I enjoy classical men's fragrances. Amouage offers some really nice solid daily drivers : interlude, memoir, and dia are amazing in my opinion.

When I sprayed this the first time, it is really extremely reminiscent of fresh vomit.
imagine you just ate a spicy meal and then your stomach turn and then you vomit that out. There you go.

Some people may think that it is the cumin that's bothering me. I think it is more than that. The combination of cumin and something very aldehydic makes the impression of fresh vomit.

As this dries down it becomes more of a B-O- impression scent.

LOL, I hope this helps some people. Please sample this first before you buy. Also, I didn't grow up in the west, so for me to find this fragrance disgusting says a lot.

If you do have a goal of getting people away from you, spray this 10 times before you go to work, I think it would do.

(a review before me mentioned this induces nausea, +1 here)
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ColinM

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Meh...
To my supercilious nose, Fate Man reveals itself from the very first minutes as one of the dullest and cheapest Amouage offerings for men, and sadly the evolution does nothing but reinforcing this impression. The opening is pretty much a mathematical layering of a ton of drugstore cumin with a fairly cheap Iso E-infused cedar-vetiver-guaiacol accord (we’re in the same territory of countless inexpensive woody scents here; I thought of Chopard Noble Cedar, Azzaro Visit or La Martina Secret Wood, but options are really infinite) and a darker, thicker shade clumsily emulating some favourite chords of several “dark Oriental” niche scents of the past years – an agreeable, albeit derivative and a bit nondescript blend of musk, rough spices and smoky balsamic-resinous notes (labdanum, mostly) with a sort boozy-tobacco flower note (immortelle – think of Histoires de Parfums’ 1740) tinted with a sort of oily licorice vibe and a robust base of something like birch tar with a hint of dry oud. So basically a moody Oriental rework of a conventional woody scent. All finally wrapped together with a polished, dry texture, quite on the dark-spicy side, and sadly (if that wasn’t clear enough) quite cheap too for me. By “cheap” I mean that I personally don’t get anything different quality-wise from several inexpensive designer woody scents, the woody notes smell clearly “average” with no nuances or richness or whatever may indicate a sign of a higher quality; and I also don’t get any other added value – nothing creative, or particularly refined. No surprises during the evolution as well. A really bland Oriental dry woody scent with a dark shade and a bit more thickness than usual in the unsuccessful attempt to bring Fate closer to a niche quality (if that ever existed). Still something you’ve to keep smelling to remember how it smells. It’s nice, but a true joke for the price.

5/10
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Ovaissaleem

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Ovaissaleem
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Spices
This is a lovely fragrance even though the opening is harsh after couple of hours as the cumin settles down this fragrance changes just like a chameleon changing it's colors, i get rose, Incense, Sandalwood, Tonka Bean and Woody notes.

This is another masterpiece from Amouage if you love Interlude you will definitely love this one too.

My Favorite from the line (the ones i have tried so far.

1- Interlude Man
2- Fate Man
3- Lyric Man
4- Memoir Man
5- Imitation Man
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ScottMcArronScottMcArron 1 year ago
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The last page of Chong’s 1st chapter at Amouage. IDKWTF is going on. lol. I’ll get back to you after my 1,574th wearing…
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MrMoustacheMrMoustache 8 months ago
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Just wait… and you will be rewarded! Very beautiful mid and drydown that tends to be remarkably different depending on temperature.
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MfaridMfarid 17 days ago
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Most fragrances shine on top then leave something less beautiful.
Fate is the opposite, cumin bomb @ top, then leaves santal trail for days
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TheDunkPapaTheDunkPapa 4 months ago
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A well worn wooden drawer that's been marinating in middle-eastern spice for decades. That + extremely clean feeling resins = masterpiece.
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Rmf1112Rmf1112 5 years ago
Much better, well rounded, and less offensive than I would have assumed from the reviews.
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EstbienlaEstbienla 3 years ago
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Not bad! Soapy/spicy cumin. Well done
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INDIGOSPHINXINDIGOSPHINX 4 years ago
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cumin, spices, amber
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BoBoChampBoBoChamp 5 years ago
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Challenging! A heavily dry-spiced (Cumin!!) and slightly smoky oriental Winter fragrance slowly shifting to a more gentle earthy-woody base.
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JoaoMartinsJoaoMartins 7 years ago
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Cumin bomb! People around me don't lilke it. I like it. It's funky and only for the brave ones.
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JMWeedJMWeed 4 years ago
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A tough fragrance to really pull off. It's just not my taste, but quality is there and it is unique, masculine and heavy on the cumin.
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