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Interlude Man 2012

Interlude Man by Amouage
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Ranked 76 in Men's Perfume
7.8 / 10 1775 Ratings
A popular perfume by Amouage for men, released in 2012. The scent is smoky-spicy. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is being marketed by Sabco Group / Oman Perfumery.
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Main accords

Smoky
Spicy
Oriental
Woody
Resinous

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
OreganoOregano PimentoPimento BergamotBergamot
Heart Notes Heart Notes
FrankincenseFrankincense OpoponaxOpoponax AmberAmber CistusCistus
Base Notes Base Notes
LeatherLeather OudOud PatchouliPatchouli SandalwoodSandalwood

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
7.81775 Ratings
Longevity
9.31617 Ratings
Sillage
9.11618 Ratings
Bottle
8.81548 Ratings
Value for money
6.9842 Ratings
Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 02/05/2025.
Interesting Facts
The fragrance is part of the "Main" collection.

Smells similar

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Oro Nero

Reviews

87 in-depth fragrance descriptions
8
Bottle
7.5
Sillage
10
Longevity
9.5
Scent
Drakecito

14 Reviews
Drakecito
Drakecito
Top Review 8  
The Best from Amouage
It has finally come to my hands this Amouage fragrance that had never been able to tried and had quite parked for comments he had read about his character smoked, etc .. that is not going with my taste.

It was a big mistake not have smelled before this magnificent perfume. I thought it was a simply stunning fragrance. Very resinous, with notes of incense, woody, spicy and ambered. Too oriental.

I will not make scrutinizing the notes because the amount of notes coming out is really important and everyone can see its components apart from reading some previous reviews that commented very well. Also you can clearly smell a note of Oud. It is a very complex fragrance.

The point is that despite not liking anything smoked perfumes, this can not find anything over and found, to my taste, the perfect balance between the smoky-spicy and sweet perfect touch for portable fragrance.
Caution, is not nothing sweet perfume, just has a masterful touch at the base, just to sweeten it.
Again, close to perfection.

The quality feel, is spectacular and not feel so linear that at times gives you a dry and spicy smell sweeter and ambered sometimes more and sometimes smell the wood and resins. Obviously, this is a matter to appreciate nuances, the fragrance has a clear core and a very definite style, from start to finish.

Comment on the bottle I have is the "modern" or "reformulated" with magnetic closure, commenting that has been lightened version.

The sillage is very noticeable and impeccable longevity with 2-3 sprays, exceeding 12 hours with ease. In a drying, I'm smelling sharply after 24 hours.

The best I've had in quite some time, which I liked most so far this brand and perhaps the best smoked perfume character I've tried so far.

Magnificent and memorable !!!
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jtd

484 Reviews
jtd
jtd
Very helpful Review 7  
Interlude Man
God knows Amouage have done the 'go big or go home' style masculine fragrances before. In fact they are some of the line's most successful perfumes. Hybrid vigor, Amouage's implicit goal, has led to beautiful fragrances that highlight traditional Eastern materials and Western compositional methods.

The sensibility that results from this hybrid has seldom been timid and Interlude Man is a beast, but a lovely one. Contemporary men's fragrances, niche and mainstream alike, often use a particular set of woody notes to imply masculinity. This limited vocabulary has drawbacks. Firstly, these notes are usually created from a range of aromachemicals that, when left alone, smell like chemicals. Secondly, without padding, without other notes to fill the empty spaces and round out the angles, men's fragrances often smell alike and lack nuance. Interlude avoids this mistake and is aromatic, expensive, nuanced, complex and capital-B Beautiful.

Line up Interlude with Amouage's other classic masculines (Dia, Ciel, Epic...) and the family resemblance, based largely in their use of incense, is easy to see. The real point of comparison for Interlude, though is the best of the men's Power Fragrances from the 1980s. They're sometimes referred to as knuckle dragging simpletons, but the best of them were simultaneously loud, beautiful and subtle. YSL Kouros was an orange-flower beauty. Hermès Bel Ami wrapped leather in violet and gasoline. Chanel Antaeus had aromatic top notes and lunged at you like a coke-head on aldehydes. Dior Jules and Caron Third Man emphasized the ruggedness of the fougère by smothering it in aromatic and floral notes. Lauder for Men hid its gruffness behind a very pretty muguet note.

Interlude is most similar to the BFFs of the time, the Big Fucking Fougères. It doesn't share the genres defining lavender/coumarin mix, but it balances bass and baritone notes with durable higher pitched notes. Like the BFFs it has a broad spectrum harmony that lasts from start to finish. You don't just hear the high-pitched notes in the top notes, and you don't get the lower register notes only in the bass notes. The harmony last from top to bottom. The similarity to the fougère genre lies in its aromatic quality. Where an aromatic fougère might use geranium or some other leafy green, Interlude uses oregano.

Oregano! Maybe not the greatest selling point points in a list of notes, but extremely successful in bringing a green expansive quality to a woody perfume. A bit of patchouli seems to integrate the oregano, so that it doesn't suggest pizza or a sore thumb. Incense jumps out from first sniff, but the rest of the woody tone is an interesting blend. Oud? Sandalwood? There is a warm, leathery, dusty quality in the basenotes that just purrs.

Interlude's combination of boldness and complexity differentiates it from the dull crowd of most contemporary woody fragrances and links it to the best of the 1980s. Vive le power frag
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10
Bottle
7.5
Sillage
10
Longevity
6
Scent
Drseid

821 Reviews
Drseid
Drseid
6  
Amouage Needs To Take A Breather...
Interlude Man opens extremely briefly with just the faintest dash of fresh bergamot before transitioning to its primary heart accord of very smoky burning incense and what is most likely synthetic rubbery Oud. Underneath the two co-stars that dominate most of the scent's development are supporting notes of mild basil, relatively sweet opoponax and musky rock-rose. During the late dry-down the smokiness of the incense slowly dissipates but the rubbery Oud, opoponax and rock-rose remain through the end, now joining just detectable sandalwood to sweeten the scent further as it fades out. Projection is above average and longevity is exceptional at well over 12 hours on skin.

Interlude Man could have been great, but it just isn't. It's primary problem is the synthetic smelling Oud that just is too strong, and when coupled with the equally ridiculously potent smoky incense and underlying sweetness from the supporting cast it becomes a bit too much. That is not to imply Interlude Man smells bad; it doesn't. It just never lives up to its potential and just smelling "good" is inexcusable at the prices Amouage is charging. While the scent may be a bit disappointing (somewhat reminding me of Arso which I disliked but this smells a lot better) the performance is outstanding with the scent lasting for what seems like forever. I don't know whether that is a good thing as it is just barely pleasant smelling, but at least it shows that Amouage did not water down Interlude Man for sure. Performance aside, the relatively disappointing Interlude Man gets a "good" rating of 3 out of 5 for the scent and a very tepid thumbs up. I recommend passing this one over for purchase as it is *way* overpriced.
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9
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10
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10
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9
Scent
Smora

155 Reviews
Smora
Smora
Very helpful Review 6  
Eccentric Perfumery
Scentrack: Basement Jaxx - Red Alert

Absolutely crazy. Cacophonous notes of nuclear blast strength. By all odds Interlude should be a fiasco, instead it's a bizarre perfection.
Strong kick of pepper and oregano followed by lunatic sweet resins, amber and incense. Base burnt wood ash is completely complementar with resin madness.
Master Negrin absolutely nailed with this novel construction. Interlude will be a base for many Amouages to come (Journey has inherited a part of Interlude's legacy). An eccentric piece of perfumery.
People who claim perfumes are no art should definitely smell it.

Rating: 9/10
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hedonist222

26 Reviews
hedonist222
hedonist222
Helpful Review 5  
oppoponax
Smells like oppoponax.

Burning oppoponax.

Dry down is a copy/paste of Ambre Fetiche.

I give it a neutral rating because it's not bad.
Nice oppoponax based perfume but it could've been more complex.

I see a lot of notes mentioned but in reality it smells crammed.
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MrFumejunkieMrFumejunkie 7 years ago
10
Bottle
10
Sillage
10
Longevity
10
Scent
you don't wear interlude. interlude wears you. the beast called 'the master choker'. you feel suicidal? wear it in august in a 35c heat.
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Rmf1112Rmf1112 8 years ago
8
Sillage
10
Longevity
8
Scent
Like carrying around a burning stick of the most magnificent incense. Stunning.
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MaksyMaksy 2 months ago
8
Sillage
9
Longevity
10
Scent
An oregano aroma that transports me to age 8, helping my mother plant it in the garden.
Transportive, organic, and herbal.
Pure confidence.
2 Comments
Zebra782Zebra782 2 years ago
10
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10
Sillage
10
Longevity
10
Scent
Smoky this, smoky that: everything labeled "smoky" is child's play compared to this, this is Smoky with a Capital S and I fucking love it!!
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TheDunkPapaTheDunkPapa 6 months ago
10
Bottle
8
Sillage
9
Longevity
10
Scent
Deep, thick vanillic sweetness unites with oregano, incense, smoke and leather in one of the most memorable and unique fragrances around.
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DylanbluemanDylanblueman 4 years ago
10
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8
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10
Longevity
2
Scent
for me one of the most off putting fragrances
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GabrielCEGabrielCE 6 years ago
7
Bottle
9
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8
Longevity
8.5
Scent
Nice scent but I think there is better, especially since this smells to me like a more incense-heavy johnsons & johnsons baby shampoo. :)
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JoaoMartinsJoaoMartins 6 years ago
10
Bottle
10
Sillage
10
Longevity
10
Scent
The first 10/10/10/10 I gave to a perfume. Absolute dream.
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WusubiWusubi 1 month ago
10
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10
Sillage
10
Longevity
9.5
Scent
French elegance and bold Omani ingredients. A manly scent that envelops you in a cloud of herbal and resinous incense. Rough but comforting.
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ArkangelusArkangelus 1 month ago
10
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10
Sillage
10
Longevity
10
Scent
Dark, resinous, amber incense casts an aura which will deter some and intrigue others. Powerful, peculian, uniquely addictive Masterpiece !
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