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MimosaAmarige
Givenchy Amarige Eau de Toilette 100ml is one of the few fragrances from the early nineties still recognised across a room on the strength of a single flower, and the flower is gardenia.
The note row here is short, just two materials, and it is better to say that plainly than to pretend at complexity. Gardenia leads and it is the loud, creamy, slightly overripe kind, a white floral with a tropical weight to it that fills the air rather than waiting to be noticed. Mimosa sits beneath it and softens the edges, bringing a powdery, soft yellow sweetness with a faint green bitterness behind it. The two together are the entire composition, and the effect is deliberately big.
It was composed by Dominique Ropion and released in 1991, and it wears like a fragrance from that decade: generous, confident, and not interested in being discreet. Even as an eau de toilette it projects strongly, and it lasts far longer than the concentration would suggest. One spray is genuinely enough. Two is a decision, and three will be remembered by everyone in the lift.
Because there is no long development to follow, what you smell at the start is what you wear throughout, with the gardenia loosening slightly and the mimosa coming forward as the hours go on. That makes it an easy fragrance to judge quickly, either in a shop or on the first wearing at home.
It reads as feminine, it suits evenings and cooler weather where its weight makes sense, and it has a loyal following among people who find modern florals too thin and too cautious. Givenchy has been a Paris house since 1952, when Hubert de Givenchy opened it, and it sits within LVMH today, where the fragrance arm runs as a maison of its own.
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