AmouageGuidance 46 Exceptional Extrait de Parfum
Guidance 46 Exceptional Extrait reinterprets the original Guidance Eau de Parfum with greater depth, richness, and intensity. This extrait transforms the fragrance into a more enveloping and sensual experience, balancing luminous florals with creamy woods, warm resins, and addictive amber notes.
Enthralling and beguiling, Guidance 46 Exceptional Extrait is a study in light and shade, fragility and strength, subtlety and ostentatiousness - paradoxes brought together with an immediacy that can be achieved only by the art of perfumery. Dosed at a staggering 46% concentration.
The fragrance opens with juicy pear layered against rose water, bitter almond, hazelnut, pink pepper, and frankincense, creating a contrast between softness and spice. As it develops, an opulent floral heart of sambac jasmine, rose, saffron, and osmanthus blooms with velvety warmth and radiant depth. The dry down becomes richer and more magnetic as sandalwood, vanilla, ambrette, ambergris, cypriol, and akigalawood leave behind a creamy, smoky trail with extraordinary longevity.
Fragrance Family: Floral Amber Woody
Top Notes: Pear, Frankincense, Hazelnut, Rose Water, Pink Pepper, Bitter Almond
Heart Notes: Saffron, Rose, Sambac Jasmine, Osmanthus
Base Notes: Cistus, Sandalwood, Akigalawood, Ambergris, Vanilla, Ambrette, Georgywood, Cypriol
