Generosity and Time Captured in a Quartet of Amouage Exceptional Extraits

Renaud Salmon, Amouage’s Chief Experience Officer, said, “The Amouage Exceptional Extraitscame to life from our ambition to craft the very best perfumes we could offer.

They started as an instinctive experiment because, although Amouage has created Extraits in the past, none of them had been aged to this extent at such concentrations, containing between 43% and 56% pure oils. These Exceptional Extraitsrequire both humility and patience.

Humility is needed in the face of living natural materials which are the result of the work of both nature and man, with no guarantees about how they develop and what the result will be.

Patience is necessary to reflect, to age and to question, to blend components, to go back and start again, to choose a better path or to wait those long hours before the perfumes see the light of day…