Amouage Dia Woman EDP

Dia Woman EDP Amouage Dia the Greek word for divine. And divine is precisely the quality that Dia Woman by Amouage achieves with a completeness and assurance that is rare in any era of perfumery. Launched in 2002 and composed by the incomparable Jean-Claude Ellena the master of transparency, restraint, and what he has called “the art of leaving out”, one of the most celebrated and philosophically distinctive perfumers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Dia Woman is a floral of extraordinary luminosity, the Amouage house’s characteristic opulence expressed not through density but through light. A fragrance of divine clarity, composed at the summit of a great perfumer’s powers. The opening is luminous, airy, and of an almost ethereal beauty: Aldehydes the synthetic molecules that Chanel N°5 made famous, with their distinctive clean, soapy, slightly waxy effervescence that lifts and illuminates every note around them, giving a composition an almost photographic brightness open Dia Woman with a radiant, champagne-like sparkle that is immediately, unmistakably of the great classical floral tradition. Cyclamen adds its clean, slightly watery, delicately floral freshness; Violet Leaf contributes its cool, green, metallic freshness of crushed leaf; Bergamot sparkles with refined citrus luminosity; Sage adds a cool, slightly herbal aromatic depth; Tarragon the culinary herb of French haute cuisine, with its distinctive warm, slightly anise-like, subtly green aromatic character adds an unexpected, quietly sophisticated herbal complexity; and Fig brings a warm, slightly milky-green fruitiness that completes an opening of seven materials, each contributing a precise facet of Ellena’s luminous, layered vision. The heart is one of Amouage’s most beautifully composed floral accords: Peony opens with its fresh, slightly citrusy, delicately rosy-green beauty; Turkish Rose Oil among the most prized and expensive rose materials in all of perfumery, cold-pressed from the Rosa damascena of Turkey’s Isparta region, with a depth, richness, and naturalness that no synthetic rose can replicate forms the warm, honeyed, deeply beautiful floral heart of the composition. Orris Root the powdery, rooty, slightly violet-like material extracted from the dried rhizome of the Iris pallida, requiring three years of curing before it yields its precious orris butter adds its classical, refined powdery elegance. Orange Blossom contributes its honeyed, waxy white floral sweetness; and Peach Blossom the delicate, slightly fruity-floral blossom of the peach tree, softer and more transparent than the ripe fruit adds a final, tender luminosity to a heart of five florals of extraordinary refinement and depth. The dry-down is warm, woody, and of a quietly magnificent complexity: Heliotrope the beloved almond-vanilla, slightly powdery floral note of the heliotrope plant bridges the floral heart and the woody base with gentle, sweet warmth. Sandalwood provides its signature creamy, meditative warmth; Cedar adds clean, dry, structural woodiness; Guaiac Wood the smoky, slightly rosy, tea-like wood of the Bulnesia sarmientoi tree from South America adds an unexpected, quietly beautiful smoky-woody dimension; Incense rises with its silvery, meditative sacred depth; Vanilla closes with golden, creamy comfort; and White Musk draws the entire, magnificent composition close to the skin with feather-light, clean intimacy a base of seven materials that carries Dia Woman’s divine luminosity into a dry-down of enduring, quietly transcendent beauty. Fragrance Family: Floral For: Women Launched: 2002 Perfumer: Jean-Claude Ellena Top Notes: Aldehydes, Cyclamen, Violet Leaf, Bergamot, Sage, Tarragon, Fig Middle Notes: Peony, Turkish Rose Oil, Orris Root, Orange Blossom, Peach Blossom Base Notes: White Musk, Heliotrope, Sandalwood, Incense, Cedar, Vanilla, Guaiac Wood Concentration: Eau de Parfum House: Amouage Dia Woman is divinity made wearable luminous, transparent, and endlessly, magnificently radiant.