AMOUAGE Ashore Mackenzie Reilly 2020 Feminine Sometimes it’s difficult to find a realistic review of some Amouage’s perfumes. I think the reason for that is that people who love Amouage are always used to get something extraordinary, something special and/or something artistic. That’s why technically great is not enough and on the other hand some amazing scent is not so popular because it doesn’t meet the right people. When I bought Ashore (blindly) I was thinking that it’s too cold weather for it. It didn’t really make any wow effect on me but mostly people like it in hot weather so I was thinking to wait next summer. Anyway I was spraying it on me the other day and I fell totally in love with it. Beautiful bright and soft Jasmine which is not heady at all. It’s somewhat transparent and minimalistic, it’s even quite linear and easy. It feels fresh and warm and I feel that I have worn some Jasmine scent during the day, spent a beautiful sunny summer day on the beach and been swimming in a salty Mediterranean Sea. That’s how it smells - Jasmine with sun and clean sea water - solar notes and salty feeling. It’s beautiful. It’s like a scent of a mermaid. 🧜♀️ I think I will wear Ashore a lot during the next summer. The longevity is easily 12 hours and it’s not too strong, absolutely office safe. Top: Pink Pepper, Cardamom Oil, Turmeric Leaf Oil Heart: Jasmine Sambac Absolute, Solar Accord, Rose Absolute Base: Ambergris Accord, Olibanum Hyperabsolute, Sandalwood Oil Thank you for reading and if you want to follow me on IG: @ninamariah_perfumes
Beautiful jasmine and resin. I get elemi from this, or perhaps it's the olibanum, but it's the same lemony type I love in Myths Man. Eveyone is bashing the newer Amouage but, while I love the Chong-era perfumes, some of the newer ones are sneaking up on me too. I absolutely love this. Update: there's a fleeting moment in the opening when I catch a scratchy woody amber, but it passes and the beautiful salty jasmine takes over. It feels fresh and briny, with a vibrant lemony shimmer. The dry down brings out the cardamom and an absolutely devestating sandlewood accord, absolutely top notch. It's very addictive and dynamic. I feel like this is underrated, maybe due to the bad direction they went in with packaging/branding. The curcuma here is in the mid and drydown unlike what the pyramid suggests, and it reminds me of Cuir Cúrcuma in its creaminess. Update: like a jasmine version of Encens Mythique.
Very strange, especially for a Salmon era Amouage. It's very spicy and aldehydic, with a monstrous, woody, musky, ambergris base. I left it a few months and it's really changed in the bottle. Every time I smell my skin I get something different. One minute there's huge turmeric, the next it's gone, but overall the thing I get least is the rose, then the jasmine, whereas when I first sprayed from the flacon it was jasmine-forward and much more gentle. I'm glad it turned out like this, and I'd say contrary to the bottle shape and packaging design this will be one for days when I want to wear a masculine scent.