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Amouage<\/a> gives us two takes on Myths Woman. The first is the one-liner describing the fragrance: “Inspired by surrealism, Myths for Woman paints its floral and green facets with an expression of dark nuances shaded with an ambivalent tone.” (If you can decipher this, let me know.) The second is this video<\/a>, loaded with swirling red fabric and music that reads as \u201cAsian tribal.\u201d<\/p>\n I agree that Myths Woman tells a story, but to me it has nothing to do with surrealism or swirling fabric. My impression is of Barbara Stanwyck in the pre-code classic, Baby Face<\/em><\/a>. (Here\u2019s the film\u2019s trailer<\/a>. You can consider it my take on a video clip for Myths.) In the movie, Stanwyck plays Lily, the good-hearted daughter of a tavern owner. After having been prostituted by her father, she decides to leave town and use her power over men to get ahead. Like Lily, Myths Woman is heartbreak and smoked cigarettes over girlish hope. (And that is my one-liner for it.)<\/p>\n Amouage classifies Myths Woman as a green floral and lists among its notes narcissus, violet leaves, galbanum, carnation, patchouli, ambergris accord, leather, moss and musk. In a nutshell, it smells like a powdery narcissus wrapped in a velvet cloth spritzed with Jean Patou 1000<\/a> and Mona di Orio Cuir<\/a>. I want a bottle.<\/p>\n After spraying Myths Woman, for a split second I smell diffuse, tart green. It\u2019s almost instantly overtaken by sepia-toned leather, hay and dirty ashtray with a hint of soap hanging around its edges. I\u2019m not one of those people who automatically sees colors when she smells something, but a sniff of Myths Woman as it begins to settle unspools a black-and-white movie in my head. We\u2019re in a dark bar with men wearing fedoras and women who don\u2019t get enough sunlight. Dangerous things are happening.<\/p>\n Slowly, the fragrance\u2019s narcissus rises, pivoting Myths toward a more classic feminine fragrance, but still with lots of composting violet leaves, moss and animalic funk hanging over it like a stained chiffon scarf. Now we\u2019re in the heroine\u2019s boarding house room, and the elevated train rumbles nearby. Her dressing gown needs mending. It\u2019s seen better days. So has the heroine. You can tell that she was beautiful once, and she cleaves to her ritual of bath powder and perfume, but the years have been rough on her.<\/p>\n Eventually, the narcissus takes full stage, and the cigarettes and leaf mold retreat to just a whiff. Myths Woman\u2019s narcissus will never have the joyful prettiness of, say, Parfums de Nicola\u00ef Le Temps d\u2019Une F\u00eate<\/a>, but now it smells much more like a straight floral. Myths Woman wears all day long and while I wouldn\u2019t call it quiet, it isn\u2019t an attention-hog, either.<\/p>\n Maybe because it\u2019s so unlike my life, I\u2019m drawn to the drama in Myths Woman. I like it that it doesn\u2019t pander to the crowd who takes its beauty easy to swallow. I don\u2019t want to be Lily in Baby Face\u00a0<\/em>\u2014 who would? \u2014 but I sure enjoy the movie.<\/p>\n Amouage Myths Woman Eau de Parfum is $280 for 50 ml and $330 for 100 ml. For information on where to buy it, see Amouage under Perfume Houses<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read the rest of this article »<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amouage<\/a> gives us two takes on Myths Woman. The first is the one-liner describing the fragrance: “Inspired by surrealism, Myths for Woman paints its floral and green facets with an expression of dark nuances shaded with an ambivalent tone.” (If you can decipher this, let me know.) The second is this video<\/a>, loaded with swirling red fabric and music that reads as \u201cAsian tribal.\u201d<\/p>\n I agree that Myths Woman tells a story, but to me it has nothing to do with surrealism or swirling fabric. 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