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The Library Collection

Opus XVI - Timber Amouage 2025

7.8 / 10 112 Ratings

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

Woody

Spicy

Resinous

Sweet

Smoky

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Juniper

Cardamom

Cocoa

Cypress

Pink pepper

Heart Notes

Omani green frankincense

Fir balsam

Provençal lavender

Base Notes

Palo Santo

Sandalwood

Bourbon vanilla

Cedarwood

Patchouli

Perfumer

Alexis Grugeon

Ratings

Scent

7.8112 Ratings

Longevity

7.995 Ratings

Sillage

7.595 Ratings

Bottle

8.694 Ratings

Value for money

5.676 Ratings

Submitted by Omrfrq, last update on 11/14/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the The Library Collection collection.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Reasons

Ébène Fumé Eau de Parfum

Lustre

Reviews

9 in-depth fragrance descriptions

09/05/2025

7.5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

MrIDK
14 Reviews

MrIDK

Helpful Review 4

Barely a Twig

Amouage has released yet another entry to the Opus lineup, this time centered around Timber, aka wood. Mister Salmonhead decided to lend Grugeon himself, the creator of Search and King Blue, the job of producing its scent. And I must say, it is a pretty great, complex composition. Here’s the thing… It's barely woody.

It starts out with a little zap of spice, which cardamom, pepper, and juniper provide, along with the initial fleeting, faint woody aspect. This smell lasts for quite some time, working together with a tinge of incense to make it a little more interesting than it was.

Yet at around the 2-hour mark, the scent flips around completely. It suddenly nearly exclusively smells like coffee from the cacao combined with sweet, burnt caramel. This caught me off guard, as it almost smells like a completely different perfume. Though this still accompanies the feel of the opening well.

Timber lasts a decently long time but isn’t the strongest projecting perfume. Its title contradicts the scent quite a bit, which is a shame, but it’s still a fairly pleasant wear. And in terms of price… Really?!

09/21/2025

6Scent 7Longevity 5Sillage

NicheOnly
116 Reviews

NicheOnly

4

Not exactly innovative

Another shorter review for Amouage's latest offering in 2025, that being Opus XVI - Timber. This is only off one wear and Timber doesn't really offer anything of interest to make me want to wear it again.

I get a spicy-woody-sweet open with some resinous and aromatic qualities. The spiciness feels more fresh spicy than warm, and some of those nuances at first reminded me of Lineage. This is also why you see people comparing it to Lustre since Lustre took some of the notes/accords from Lineage and Lustre is the most recent Amouage product to feature them. As it exits the immediate open, those touches actually steer more towards scents in the Le Male family, e.g. Reflection Man and Darley. A prominent aromatic quality starts to come through that begins to push it closer to a classic designer DNA, i.e. the scent has an aromatic & fresh spicy, somewhat clean feel to it the same way that Reflection has those warm spices opposed by light white florals and musk.

However, in the on-skin dry-down, the scent has a very clear direction with the designer-style lavender and/or fir coming out more. These notes are opposed by cardamom and the scent ultimately settles in the same family of products like Nishane's Papilefiko and Penhaligons' The Blazing Mister Sam. It's the same style of classic sweet masculine aromatic. In the deep dry-down, the scent has the same type of woody-spicy feel like in Lustre, likely driven by the sandalwood. For me, this was around the 8 hour mark or so.

While that profile fills a gap within Amouage's lineup, it definitely doesn't bring anything of value to the broader market. Opus XVI - Timber retails for €365/100ml, a price point where it gets completely outclassed by Penhaligons' (and Amouage could never compete with Nishane in grey market pricing either). The performance has no upside, but the blending has no shortfalls either. It's just been done a couple times too many and as a result, I'm not moved by the product.

11/07/2025

8Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Majid114
127 Reviews

Majid114

3

Smoky Woody

Opus XVI-Timber from the Arab House of Perfumery Niche Haute Luxury Amouage from the Sultanate of Oman is part of the Library Collection, it is an Oriental Woody Spicy Aromatic Amber Unisex perfume, with masculine inclination. This is a brand new fragrance which launched in August 2025; and the nose responsible for this creation is Alexis Grugeon. Timber is powerful and striking at first with a strong and woody aroma. But it quickly becomes more complex with fresh and light notes, this duality is both powerful and welcoming, like a huge tree towering over us, Timber is an ode to wood!

Its opening reveals a vivid and photorealistic green nuance of a pine and cypress forest. Which blends quickly with a warm spicy aromatic accord and a spicy facet, a light sprinkle of cocoa adds a sweet warmth, offering an unexpected yet harmonious olfactory ensemble. Cypress gives a clear botanical freshness; cardamom with pepper brings a spicy heat; The juniper here has an anise vibe reminiscent of something boozy more precisely a gin, bringing a modern touch, creating an undeniably bold opening.

In the center of the composition things start to get serious; a steaming infusion of Amouage's iconic traditional Real Hojari de Oman incense emerges, with the mossy green balsamic woody of spruce and a subtle herbaceous hint of lavender in the background. The frankincense brings a smoky and resinous density, almost ritualistic, this is my favorite phase. This trio is as if they were guiding those who use it through a forest full of coniferous trees. The fragrance is populated by various woods in all its layers and evolutions. It is not an invasive bombastic Amouage, far from it, but if it is present, it will be noticed.

Towards drying, the perfume finishes with more wood: with a woody blend formed by the meditative esoteric wood of palo santo with its slightly sweet aroma, with the creamy and relaxing softness of sandalwood, the very dry woody character of cedar, the woody earthiness of patchouli bringing a slight dirt and vanilla that, like cocoa at the beginning, appear very discreetly just to soften and give a polished and ambery finish the fragrance. Timber is not a difficult or challenging perfume, it is an elegant fragrance of easy pleasantness and even a certain versatility.

The perfume is very good, very tasty, it has the DNA of the new Library Collection present, it has the smoky character of its older brothers, but it is the easiest to please, I understand the complaints and expectations created and frustrated by its predecessors. The Timber can easily be an elegant woody signature scent... I would venture to say [with due differences] that perhaps Opus XVI-Timber is to Amouage what Imperial is to Boadicea, even though they are not similar, I just made this parallel as an example. I liked the proposal, often less is more, but make no mistake Timber has complexity.

08/10/2025

5Scent

Chrixus86
8 Reviews

Chrixus86

4

Dissapointment

Where are the woods? This feels like syntethic lavender with some spice.
Sampled an original sample.
I was expecting some resins, typical needle tree aromathics. Given the name "Timber" this would have been supreme wood scent. It could have been better without the bourbon vanilla and lavender. Instead there should have been some chaparral, clary sage, at least atlas cedar and pinyion pine resins, Ponderosa pine.
The recent releases are just all not as great as the Chong Era classics. For someone looking for woody/forest scents. Havenhollow and Pineward are the houses to go to! Full spectrum high end artisinal perfumery with amazing photorealistic scents.

09/02/2025

6Scent 8Longevity 6Sillage

LucianB
28 Reviews

LucianB

2

Aromatic designer fragrance

Another Salmon release, another disaster (obviously). I was hoping the Opus collection will still remain a contested territory, not a place to release designer fragrances under the name of Amouage.
The opening is creamy, little bit spicy, reminding me of a combination with Reasons (without the hazelnut note) and Lustre. It calms down quite fast, and the fir and frankincense start to appear and it becomes very aromatic, maybe due to the combination of the juniper and cypress as well.
In the dry down it settles more into the aromatic notes combined with vanilla and very (but very) little woody notes, despite the name "Timber".
To be honest I am really disappointed, it does smell good, definitely, but not something worthy to pay this price. It is more into a designer type of fragrance or some room fragrance, but not something you can call it niche perfumery.

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