Honour Woman Amouage 2011 Eau de Parfum

Yes, I know it says "woman" above. Yes, I also recognize the female symbol. And no, I don't mind the fact that I like to wear a more feminine touch with my polo shirts sometimes. Quite the opposite, in fact. When I received this and some more fragrance samples in a swap (THANKS to the dear Parfuma at this point), my explicit wish was that, if possible, there should be many fragrances that tend to be feminine.
I rummage around very gladly in all scent areas and wear also gladly to change - according to prevailing opinion present definition - feminine scents. Because quite honestly: If you like the fragrances on women anyway, why not just wear them yourself?

I actually have a good relationship with Amouage, although this can be described more as a short liaison. I like to wear them, but usually only very irregularly and in temporally longer intervals from each other. Mostly leave me the flacons also again briskly and me is enough a filling.
Nevertheless, I like the brand very well. It has very complex as well as thoroughly simple, linear fragrance concepts in their repertoire.

Honour Woman has the odd twist, didn't always sit well with me and even annoyed me at times. At the end of the performance, however, this is a really great fragrance.

The beginning I find even after some "test" annoying, unround, just not hamonierend. I have described it in my statement as a catfight and I want to stick to that. Tuberose and gardenia don't quite know what they are supposed to do together in the still quite early hours of the perfume. Immediately I have to fight again and again with pepper, which I see already in the food not too gladly / like.
As soon as this combination is something and the fragrance progresses in its development it becomes more pleasant. I now perceive jasmine and lily of the valley, the association "white flowers" I sign. It becomes softer, a very harmonious picture surrounds me. Again and again garden carnation blows through my olfactory center. The fragrance now clearly plays out its strengths and knows, despite my opinion of difficult start, to convince.
The previous speaker spoke of a simultaneously warm and fresh charisma. This I can share. I also perceive amber in the finish and think that this is due to this. This deliberate combination of fresh but also warm flair, I feel anyway as a very exciting interpretation. I know the same from Enigma. Although a completely different direction fragrance, also combines this perfume the strength to create a fresh as well as warm impression.

The durability was surprisingly good, he has kept with me almost 10 hours. A little more power to the outside I would have liked, but so he is a quiet, authentic, introverted fragrance. Elegant is probably the right keyword here.

I can only repeat myself: Yes, it is a fragrance assigned to the category "woman". Nevertheless, I wear this myself from time to time quite gladly!