Reviews of Journey Woman by Amouage

The warm honey and vanilla dry down on this is beautiful. A real comfort scent that also has amazing longevity and sillage.

Jasmine almost smothers the apricot and osmanthus notes. Sometimes, they are barely there. I get something nutty, underneath... Jasmine turns almost boozy, with hints of honey. This, is one of the better jasmine scents I've smelled. It's a note I can take or leave usually.

I enjoy it. I would've like more osmantus, more apricot. Anyway, the base is mellow, with a smattering of vanilla-musk and bits of a smoky spice... Jasmine sambac lingers forever.

I've finally found one! A peach/apricot fragrance that smells exquisite. Teamed with honey & osmanthus, this smells a bit similar to this house's Sunshine, but this is more fruity.

I'm in love with a $200+ perfume that smells
like peaches & cream/honey and I am not ashamed to admit it! This is absolutely amazing, there's a depth to it that I can't find in any designer or cheapie frags I own that showcase such notes. I can't get over how good this smells. I wanna take a nap in a hammock in the sunshine surrounded by this fragrance but I might wake up surrounded by bees... and their knees, ha!

Sillage and longevity are amazing with this one, with all the Amouage fragrances I've tested I can say you honestly are getting what you pay for not only with the well executed note pyramids that smell of high quality ingredients, but killer performance as well.

One last thing: is this discontinued? I couldn't find it on most retail sites that sell Amouage, only grey market discounters... if it is, it'd be a real shame and I'll need to purchase a FB immediately before it goes away. I could honestly see myself wearing this all year, including the hot weather that's about to be here any day now. Maybe applied lighter in the summer and saved for the more fancy occasions, but I'm worth it and this fragrance brings me actual joy from smelling It.

On me, Journey is like a more refined, less brash version of Alien Oud Majesteux. I've enjoyed my sample of Journey, but I don't think I'd want a full size bottle. Very nice, but for me, a once-in-a-while fragrance.

On my skin, this is a beautifully spiced warm honey. If there were walnut added, I would smell like the best baklava ever made.

I love food. I also love the smell of good food. And so I'm not embarrassed to say, I like to smell like food. Amouage Journey (for Women) opens with a citrusy smell, quickly joined by HONEY. Sticky sweet, yummy, raw honey. Oranges and honey, lots o' honey. Did I mention the honey? There is a drydown scent that I cannot name - smells like the drydown in John Varvatos, and I like that too. Kind of incense-y. I like that the cap of the bottle is magnetic. The bottle itself is nice and sturdy, and squat, and therefore unlikely to tip over. Sprayer worked well too.

There aren't many non-citrus fruity notes that l enjoy, but the golden, apricot-like note of osmanthus is an exception. Here it serves to enhance what for me is mainly a tobacco fragrance, laced with mimosa & spiced with nutmeg. ln the heart there's a honeyed sweetness to the tobacco, suede-like in texture, that reminds me more than a little of Chergui. The fragrance doesn't so much project as surround me with a fuzzy, golden haze, giving off divine little wafts as l move. lt's quite intoxicating, but not at all overpowering. There isn't much progression, except for a suggestion of vanilla, & a soft musk deep in the drydown eight hours later. A beautiful fragrance of exceptional quality, it's perfect on a sunny autumn day.

One gets the feeling that Amouage were aiming for the cool, shaded, limpid feel of their earlier Reflection Woman with this offering. However, Journey Woman is somewhat lacking in that indefinable just-rightness that characterizes good perfume and joins the middle ranks instead.
The honey-osmanthus pairing has been making quite a few appearances recently – Journey's interpretation is less cloying and syrupy than some and the apricot notes are a plus in lifting the opening, and giving it a lip-smacking tartness. When the jasmine emerges from the heart, it's a watery one – the aim was probably for something light, gracious and cool, but it comes across as Amouage skimping on its budget. The leather accent is similarly banal and synthetic and does the whole no favours – the creators probably leaning too quickly on the tried and tested (in this instance the sympathy between osmanthus and leather tones).
Journey Woman is no stinker, but it fails to scale any heights. The best thing about it for me is its juicy apricotty fruitiness which it holds through its evolution.

With some exceptions made, I generally prefer Amouage feminines to masculines but surely not in this case. I'm aware I'm gonna swim against the stream here but I honestly don't get JM. This has probably more to do with my personal tastes and penchant than to the fragrance itself but as a matter of fact, I just find Journey Woman a barely decent fruity floral.

The opening is too sickening sweet for me. A blast of honey and fruity-floral osmanthus with pale yellow floral facets. There's a shy jasmine note trying to claim its presence but it's overwhelmed by the apricot-y osmanthus. I rarely refer to fragrances as *feminine* or *masculine* but in this case this is really too gender-oriented for me. It gets a little better during the middle phase where sweetness is somewhat more balanced but still nothing that's able to hold my attention. In fact I had to scrub it off as I really couldn't find a single aspect to appreciate.

Now, I'm sure this does better on the right wearer but on me, I'm afraid this was 100% perfume-hell.

Ew. Sorry.

Oh my, the opening is indeed something special. Maybe I was subconsciously drawn to the mimosa of my childhood memories but this is one delicately spiced floral I wish I could smell on more women. Journey Woman may have shied away from the house's customary ostentation but it retains a presence nevertheless, the scent oscillating between the mildly intoxicating floralcy of jasmine sambac and the drier aromatics of tobacco leaves.

Someone once asked me if I could choose to be with either a beautiful woman or an attractive one, whom would I rather pick? My answer is always the same: the attractive woman. Journey Woman is no ravishing beauty but she is undeniably attractive.

Osmanthus is bidding us welcome from the start, aided by a pleasant cardamom. The middle is pleasantly floral, with sweetish notes like honey and vanilla developing over time. A bit of light tobacco is thrown in towards the end. It is never really very sweet or cloying, but on my skin it never really develops into an impressive or convincing composition, in spite of being very well blended, it remains too flat and colourless Adequate silage and projection, with six hours of longevity on me. Overall not in the top shelf on me, but I can imagine this being better on someone else's skin. Try before you buy.

This is one lovely perfume! I've been sniffing for a perfect, rich osmanthus and this one definitely works. There is a rich, apricot-laden osmanthus heart with lots of spicy goodness. All the sweetness and honey and fruit does not become cloying, however. The tea and that hint of tobacco keeps it quirky and interesting, and dries out the composition to some extent. It changes while wearing, shifting from the warmer, richer facets to the drier, more pungent aspects, then back again. Longevity is very good, sillage is surprisingly minimal. It's entertaining and intelligent.

Genre: Oriental

As with the Interlude and Memoir scents, Journey Woman is the more interesting and original of the Journey pair. Journey Man is a perfectly pleasant, well-made, and ultimately very conservative sort of scent. Journey Woman is an altogether different kind of animal. “Animal” being the operative term. Indeed, Journey Woman's sweet, intensely animalic top notes are real wake-up call! They announce from the start that this is not necessarily going to be a comfortable fragrance. Journey Man may be all gentleman's club nostalgia, but Journey Woman looks backward to provocatively animalic classics like Paco Rabanne's La Nuit and the original Rochas Femme.

Osmanthus is normally a “clean,” even rather soapy floral note, but here it is paired with a profoundly animalic honey-propolis that reveals it in an entirely different perspective. A marvelous olfactory idea! In time the honey and osmanthus are joined by indolic jasmine, smoky leather, and tobacco, and the scent takes on the sultry aura of an oriental nightclub fantasy, straight out of a 1930s movie set. With its smoke and its big dose of fruity tobacco, Journey Woman feels at times like a sweeter, fruitier Fumerie Turque; at others like a throwback to the animalic chypres of a bygone era. It is at once beautiful and decadent, sweet, yet never foody or “edible.” All and all, an intriguing fragrance, and a worthy extension of the Amouage range.

I feel like this is *my* Amouage (although I also have Ubar Woman, and Lyric Woman)...this is a stunning floriental that follows the note pyramid above, in a delicate and lightly whispering way. An astonishing elixir.
Although they smell nothing alike, to me this *vibe* is similar to a Fleur Oriental by MIller Harris, only the Amouage is better. This is a must own for a lot of people, I am sure, but for osmanthus lovers especially, this may well break your heart.