![]() ![]() It smells like rose oxide, but I’m wondering if it is in fact aldehyde. ![]() Then that metallic note rings through like a gold bell. “the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.”Īfter a time, the rose becomes sharper, thornier in contrast to the chilly, powdery orris that turns up. Gold Woman starts to become lusher and sultrier, less party girl and more lady of the house.Īmouage Gold Man and Woman, ad by Amouage Soon, truly lovely frankincense weaves in like a silken thread. But then a rather stately rose makes her way through. ![]() The muguet is spritely, heady, dizzyingly pretty, like hundreds of tiny wind chimes ringing all at once. The top spins out of the bottle like a ballerina’s fouettes, with so much lily of the valley spilling into the Dom Perignon aldehydes that it feels like a giddy homage to Diorrissimo. But returning to it now, it puts me in mind of Daisy Buchanan’s voice the perfectly timed rise and fall of the glittering notes, the entrancing glamour, the underlay of something enigmatic. The first time I encountered Amouage Gold Woman, Glitter and Be Gay from Candide filled my ears, Barbara Cooks’s lyric coloratura bubbling along with Gold Woman’s initial shower of sparkling aldehydes. “A promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour” But it has a diamond-like effervescence, and a lusher rose and frankincense heart, than its handsome sibling. Like Gold Man, which was to be Robert’s final creation, Gold Woman is built around a heart of frankincense, myrrh and rose. And at the center of it all is a distinct impression of something metallic but warm, like molten gold. It is a scintillating, heart-flutteringly beautiful fragrance, a confection of champagne bubbles, glinting resins, and tendrils of incense, all fluttering like jeweled hummingbirds around each other. Perfumer extraordinaire Guy Robert was lured to create it with promises of creative freedom and a bottomless account with which to make what Robert himself would consider his masterpiece. It is Amouage Gold Woman.Īmouage, founded in 1983 by the royal household of Oman, launched Amouage Gold Woman as its inaugural fragrance. And over the echoes of Bye Bye Blackbird floats a scent of money, an airy glitter of golden resins, cut-diamond aldehydes and expensive flowers that Nick Carraway will remember looking back on this night. ![]() He watches, captivated, rueful, and in love all over again. So what if it’s all for show? Tonight is a party like no other the pool shines glassy under a silver moon as perfect as a song lyric, the jazz is fizzing, and gorgeous creatures shimmy and kick to the Charleston. Her glittering happiness bubbles like a fountain, and her singsong inflection enchants as surely as a siren’s song. It was full of money-that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it … an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered “Listen.”ĭaisy Buchanan (Mia Farrow) The Great Gatsby 1974ĭaisy Buchanan’s voice draws men like eager moths to a dancing flame. ““Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. Amouage Gold Woman photo by the brand apped by Emmanuelle ![]()
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