Amouage
Opus 9
Oriental Resinous
Longevity
Long
Sillage
Strong
Occasion
Romantic/Evening
Seasonality
Winter
Jasmine and camellia soften a base of beeswax, leather and civet, with ambergris and vetiver adding an animalic warmth. Dense and slightly raw, it wraps florals in skin and hide for a provocative leathery oriental.
Taste Profile
The Original
The Considered Statement
Makes a statement worth asking about.
Unusual enough to stop someone mid-thought. Considered enough to keep them there. The question it raises is the point.
See your own Taste Map →How Opus 9 smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Opus 9 leaves its components exposed, shifting as it wears, and carries across a room and announces itself.
Opus 9 sits temperate, built on woods and soft musk rather than amber. That is 68th percentile for warmth across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Opus 9 carries across a room and announces itself. That is 91st percentile for projection across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Opus 9 sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available. That is among the highest in the catalogue for risk across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Opus 9 leaves its components exposed, shifting as it wears. That is among the highest in the catalogue for texture across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Opus 9 carries sweetness without letting it define the scent.
Projection, risk and texture describe how a fragrance behaves in a room and on skin. Where wear reports are thin, those scores rest near the middle by design, so a mid-range reading here is a statement about the evidence as much as about the scent. Warmth and sweetness are derived from composition and do not carry that caveat.
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