The Odyssey Collection

Decision Amouage 2025

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7.8 / 10 201 Ratings

A new perfume by Amouage for women and men, released in 2025. The scent is spicy-woody. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is being marketed by Sabco Group / Oman Perfumery.

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Main accords

Spicy

Woody

Resinous

Smoky

Fresh

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Bergamot

Pink pepper

Cardamom

Heart Notes

Frankincense

Juniper berry Myrrh

Myrrh

Base Notes

Atlas cedar Vanilla

Vanilla

Patchouli

Perfumer

Quentin Bisch

Ratings

Scent

7.8201 Ratings

Longevity

8.8181 Ratings

Sillage

8.2179 Ratings

Bottle

8.8168 Ratings

Value for money

6.2133 Ratings

Submitted by Sveti, last update on 07/26/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the "The Odyssey Collection" collection.

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Reviews

11 in-depth fragrance descriptions

05/07/2025

1
Pricing 6
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 1
Scent

Bryan35
8 Reviews

Bryan35

7

Amouage is a joke

I was such a diehard Amouage fanboy but these new releases , especially in collaboration with Quentin Bisch are absolutely disgusting. They put so many synthetic aromachemicals, amberwoods and musks into these new releases, just to increase the performance to try and justify the stupid prices they are asking. But MORE is not always better. Decision lacks personality, lacks concept, it's just your mainstream fragrance at the mall, synthetic , full of amberwoods, vanilla, some citruses and frankincense. NOTHING intresting, nothing to justify a purchase, i cannot see any place in anyone's collection for this fragrance. It lacks everything about it, character, concept, artistry, vision..the only thing that it's not lacking is the performance, this is so strong that it's gonna make you sick. Amouage is now Parfums de Marley 2.0 , synthetic raw materials, designer level releases, no vision and no concept. Au revoir, Amouge..it was nice meeting you

06/18/2025

4
Pricing 8
Bottle 5
Sillage 6
Longevity 6
Scent

NicheOnly
85 Reviews

NicheOnly

7

NO NEW TRICKS

Do you remember the Amouage before COVID? It might feel like a distant memory, but in the aftermath of the pandemic as Amouage's house direction continues to go more and more mainstream, the gap between what the Omani brand does now relative to where they were under Chong or even in Renaud's first few years has never been bigger. Decision is yet another example of that gap widening.

Review written off 1 wear with an official sample I got from Jovoy.

One aspect that I dislike about contemporary Amouage's creative direction (or the lack thereof) is the heavy cross-application of notes/accords from product to product. If you were to read my review of Reasons which came out in 2024, you'd see me highlight how the scent uses many of the raw ingredients from scents like Lineage and Jubilation XXV Man. The same was true of Lustre and the same is also true with Decision.

On my first time smelling Decision, the initial notes that I wrote down state that Decision features the same sweet licorice-like opening of Opus XIV - Royal Tobacco, the same spicy notes like Lineage, the same aromatic-synthetic woody structure like Purpose with a very clear reference to one-trick-pony Quentin Bisch's akigalawood DNA. The actual transition of the scent is smokier and when I first smell the scent up-close, there is a prominent woody tonality contrasted by moderate smokiness. Decision smells a bit like woods charring next to a live campfire with the atlas cedar having a light leathery quality to it as well. In the ultimate dry-down around ~1.5-2 hours in, the scent leans more heavily into the various notes & accords visible in both Lineage and Purpose as the smokiness/depth dissipates into a mild spicy-woody scent with aromatic quality.

Overall, there's just nothing special about Decision overall as the composition is very simple in nature once all the other notes fade away after the top. The various parts of Lineage and Lustre that I can smell in the dry-down are mild-to-moderate with the core scent being a one-two of atlas cedar and incense. I'd say this scent is woody-smoky-spicy with some resinous/leathery qualities. Performance wise it feels average: I am not getting anything more than average sillage, but I'd expect this to be in the 7-8 hour range for longevity (which I'd rate as a 6). The blending and execution are the only things pushing this above a median ranking, but besides that there really isn't anything else here.

06/09/2025

9
Pricing 10
Bottle 9
Sillage 9
Longevity 9
Scent

Ygnlcm
1 Review

Ygnlcm

3

This is a good fragrance

I feel like this is getting a lot of unnecessary hate… Yes, this is a ‘safer’ addition to the Amouage lineup compared to what they’re usually known for, but Decision still has a lot of character and the wearing experience is incredible. It’s not blind-buy safe and by no means mainstream. I own 11 Amouage fragrances and honestly I’m loving this.

I would highly recommend ignoring the hate (seemingly built up off the back of the recent L’Oréal minor acquisition and Bisch’s participation) and try it.

06/01/2025

Mike212
7 Reviews

Mike212

3

Did private equity buy Amouage? Because this is a generic nothing.

This is a blandly sweet, fruity thing in the vein of Kurky. It evokes a vape pen more than a perfume. It smells perfectly nice in a synthetic fruit candy way, but there’s nothing unique, interesting, or refined about it. Tested from a hand decanted sample from Nordstrom, an authorized retailer (they do this if you buy something).

07/13/2025

7
Pricing 9
Bottle 9
Sillage 9
Longevity 8
Scent

Majid114
109 Reviews

Majid114

1

INCENSE & VANILLA

Decision of the Arab House of Perfumery Niche High Luxury Amouage together with Existence is part of the Final Chapter of the Odyssey Collection, it is a Woody Vanilla Aromatic Spicy Unisex perfume. This is a new fragrance that has been launched in 2025. And the nose behind this fragrance is Quentin Bisch. The perfume is not difficult or challenging, a delicious perfume and easy to please. Perfume for mild temperatures, too much heat will go downhill, and too cold there are darker and heavier options.
Decision opens with a squeaky burst of fresh spicy pepper with a green cardamom... it is like an olfactory "lightning", a vivid and clarifying mixture of a fresh green and slightly mineral Hojari incense, it has citrus bergamot with a striking and very present resinous myrrh and aromatic juniper berries. All this creates an initial impression of accentuated clarity and an effervescent freshness, that's right, this exit reminds you of those effervescent tablets of Vitamin C. That initial whirlwind begins to dissipate quickly and the fragrance begins to evolve and its ingredients are distributed more clearly in its layers.

The heart of the fragrance unfolds with the woody, clean and luminous woodiness of cedar, adding a dry woody structure and a sense of elegance, juniper and myrrh arrive adding an aromatic resinous depth and a balsamic touch, revealing a smoky oriental heart with an incensed hint of frankincense. These elements intertwine to create an incensed aromatic resinous core.
The base provides a warm and deeply welcoming effect with a good dose of a soft creamy vanilla, the woody patchouli and the long-lasting resinous and smoky quality of the incense are key for the perfume not to be extremely sweet vanilla. Decision is for those who like vanilla; and even with oriental elements in the composition such as frankincense and myrrh, it is very far from the DNA of Amouage. The perfume is well built and has Amouage quality that no one doubts, but it is not an olfactory work of art, or something very original, but it will easily please even the least fanatical users of Amouage.

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