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Givenchy Amarige
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Amarige

Citrus
Floral
Rose
White Floral
Fruity
Aromatic
Woody
EDT · 1991 · womens

Givenchy's Amarige launched in 1991 as a romantic floral for women, arriving during a golden era for the house's fragrance division. It became one of the brand's defining scents, representing the opulent florals that dominated the early 1990s.

The fragrance opens with a bright, fruity burst of mandarin orange, neroli, and peach, supported by Brazilian rosewood and violet. The heart is densely floral, layering gardenia, jasmine, tuberose, and mimosa with red berries and black currant adding juicy sweetness. The base settles into a warm, creamy finish with tonka bean, vanilla, amber, and sandalwood, creating a rounded, slightly powdery drydown that keeps the composition grounded despite all the floral activity.

Amarige suits someone drawn to full-bodied florals with serious sweetness and staying power. It works best for daytime wear in cooler months or as an evening fragrance year-round, though its intensity means it projects generously. This is a fragrance for those who want their florals unapologetic and indulgent. Explore similar scents through The Romantic, The Hedonist, and The Heirloom.

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Main Accordsreported by community
Citrus
28%
Floral
100%
Rose
18%
White Floral
100%
Fruity
80%
Aromatic
22%
Woody
50%
Musky
22%
Powdery
18%
Amber
60%
Warm Spicy
22%
Vanilla
43%
Sweet
80%
Gourmand
43%
Creamy
22%
Fragrance Notesbrand verified
Top · 0–30 min
Brazilian Rosewood
Brazilian Rosewood
The heartwood of Aniba rosaeodora produces an oil once used extensively in fine perfumery for its warm, woody, slightly rosy, and faintly camphorous character. Brazilian rosewood is now endangered and heavily restricted, making it extremely rare. Synthetic alternatives are used today, but the original had a unique beauty that modern substitutes approximate.
Mandarin Orange
Mandarin Orange
Neroli
Neroli
Distilled from bitter orange blossoms, neroli sits at the intersection of citrus and floral, bright and slightly waxy, with a honeyed depth that other citrus notes lack. It's one of the most complex natural ingredients in perfumery, simultaneously fresh and rich. A little neroli makes almost any fragrance feel expensive.
Orange Blossom
Orange Blossom
Sweeter and more honeyed than neroli (both come from the same tree), orange blossom is a floral note with a warm, almost edible quality. It floats between citrus and floral families, adding richness without weight. A signature note of classic Mediterranean and Middle Eastern perfumery.
Peach
Peach
Ripe, juicy, and velvety, peach has a warm, slightly creamy sweetness that feels lush rather than childish in the right context. It adds a fruity sensuality to floral and oriental fragrances, and its slightly fuzzy quality can even play into tactile, skin-like accords. A note that feels like high summer.
Plum
Plum
Dark, slightly tart, and warm, plum has a wine-like depth that makes it more serious than cherry or peach. It adds a fruity darkness to oriental fragrances, with a slightly fermented quality that bridges fruit and leather families. Used to add drama and depth to floral-oriental compositions.
Violet
Violet
Sweet, powdery, and faintly green, violet sits between floral and earthy in a way that feels distinctly old-world glamorous. The leaf and the flower smell quite different: the flower is sugary and delicate, while violet leaf is fresh and slightly vegetal. Together they create a note that feels both nostalgic and current.
Heart · 30 min – 3 hrs
Black Currant
Black Currant
Black Locust
Black Locust
Carnation
Carnation
Spicy, clove-like, and slightly powdery, carnation is one of perfumery's oldest floral notes, with a warm, almost peppery character that distinguishes it from softer flowers. It has a vintage, slightly old-fashioned quality that is coming back into fashion. Think pressed flowers in an old book, warm and complex.
Cassia
Cassia
Chinese cinnamon bark with a sharper, more pungent, and slightly more medicinal quality than true Ceylon cinnamon. Cassia is often what most people mean when they say cinnamon in a fragrance context, as it is more commonly used. It has a dry, woody warmth with a spiced directness that suits oriental and autumn compositions.
Gardenia
Gardenia
Intoxicatingly creamy and white-floral with a waxy, almost narcotic sweetness. Gardenia shares the heady indolic quality of jasmine and tuberose but with a fresher, greener edge from its glossy leaves. A challenging note to use well, too much overwhelms, but a well-handled gardenia accord is memorably beautiful.
Jasmine
Jasmine
Intoxicating, heady, and slightly animalic, jasmine is one of the few flowers that smells as rich in a bottle as it does climbing a garden wall at dusk. It has an almost fleshy, indolic quality that stops it reading as purely 'clean.' Jasmine is a workhorse in both feminine and masculine perfumery, adding depth and soul.
Mimosa
Mimosa
Powdery, honeyed, and softly floral, mimosa has a warm, golden sweetness that feels like sunshine in a bottle. The yellow puffball flowers of the mimosa tree produce an oil that is simultaneously floral, woody, and slightly animalic. A quintessential note of the French Riviera and romantic Provençal perfumery.
Orchid
Orchid
Exotic, slightly sweet, and airy, 'orchid' in perfumery is usually a constructed accord rather than a direct extract, designed to evoke the flower's mysterious tropical beauty. Depending on the perfumer, it can read as vanilla-like and warm or cool and green. A note that suggests luxury and rarity.
Red Berries
Red Berries
A mixed accord of red fruits including raspberry, strawberry, and red currant, producing a bright, sweet, and slightly tart freshness. Red berries read as summery and cheerful, adding an accessible, crowd-pleasing sweetness to florals and orientals. One of the most broadly appealing fruity notes in mainstream perfumery.
Rose
Rose
The queen of floral notes and the most-used ingredient in fine perfumery. Real rose is simultaneously velvety, honeyed, and slightly spicy, nothing like the synthetic candy version. Depending on the variety used, it can anchor a composition or drift through it like a ghost, adding warmth without dominating.
Tuberose
Tuberose
One of the most intensely floral natural ingredients in existence, rich, creamy, and almost narcotic in its sweetness. Tuberose is polarizing by design: it's meant to be enveloping, not background. It has rubbery, vanilla-like facets that make it feel both sensual and slightly retro.
Ylang-Ylang
Ylang-Ylang
Base · 3–12 hrs
Amber
Amber
A warm, resinous accord rather than a single ingredient, amber is typically built from labdanum, benzoin, and vanilla to create a rich, honeyed, almost solar warmth. It's the quintessential base-note family, adding a comforting richness that makes fragrances feel complete. The difference between a fragrance feeling cold and feeling alive.
Cedar
Cedar
Musk
Musk
The base layer of almost every modern fragrance, a soft, warm, skin-like scent that extends longevity and bridges other notes together. Natural musk was once derived from deer (now banned); today's musks are synthetic and range from clean and soapy to dark and animalic. The right musk makes a fragrance smell like 'you.'
Sandalwood
Sandalwood
Creamy, smooth, and milky with a soft, skin-like warmth that clings beautifully. True Mysore sandalwood is one of perfumery's most precious ingredients, simultaneously wood and skin, never cold or sharp. It rounds off sharp edges in any composition and makes the wearer smell subtly, irresistibly warmer.
Tonka Bean
Tonka Bean
Sweet, powdery, and almond-like with hay-like, slightly tobacco undertones, tonka bean is one of perfumery's most useful base notes. It shares coumarin with fresh hay and freshly cut grass, adding a warmth that feels nostalgic and comforting. Essential in gourmand and soft oriental fragrances.
Vanilla
Vanilla
Warm, sweet, and universally appealing, vanilla is to fragrance what salt is to cooking. Real vanilla is complex and slightly smoky, though most perfumery vanilla is synthetic and reads as clean, sweet, and creamy. It slows the evaporation of other notes and is the reason certain fragrances feel like a second skin.
Woody Notes
Woody Notes
Who Wears ThisScent DNA matches
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The RomanticBest match90% match
Your fragrance is a love letter you never stop writing.

Warm roses, vanilla, amber, creamy musks. Soft, evolving, intimate.

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The Hedonist85% match
More is more. You've always known this.

Opulent, rich, long-lasting. Vanilla, amber, dense florals, gourmand warmth.

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The Heirloom84% match
You carry something beautiful that most people have forgotten.

Powdery, soft, classically sweet. Iris, aldehydes, gentle florals, quiet vintage warmth.

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Scent Profile
Citrus28%Floral100%Rose18%White Floral100%Fruity80%
Fragrance Family
Floral
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Givenchy Amarige— Prices, Coupons & Buying Guide

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Cheapest price for Givenchy Amarige? +
$57.95 at Perfumania. Gush compares 47+ retailers updated every 2 hours.
Is $57.95 a good price for Amarige? +
Yes. The current best price is $57.95 and MSRP is $79.00. At $57.95 you save 27% vs retail.
What does Givenchy Amarige smell like? +
Givenchy's Amarige launched in 1991 as a romantic floral for women, arriving during a golden era for the house's fragrance division. It became one of the brand's defining scents, representing the opulent florals that dominated the early 1990s. The fragrance opens with a bright, fruity burst of mandarin orange, neroli, and peach, supported by Brazilian rosewood and violet. The heart is densely floral, layering gardenia, jasmine, tuberose, and mimosa with red berries and black currant adding juicy sweetness. The base settles into a warm, creamy finish with tonka bean, vanilla, amber, and sandalwood, creating a rounded, slightly powdery drydown that keeps the composition grounded despite all the floral activity. Amarige suits someone drawn to full-bodied florals with serious sweetness and staying power. It works best for daytime wear in cooler months or as an evening fragrance year-round, though its intensity means it projects generously. This is a fragrance for those who want their florals unapologetic and indulgent. Explore similar scents through The Romantic, The Hedonist, and The Heirloom.
What are the notes in Givenchy Amarige? +
Top: Brazilian Rosewood, Mandarin Orange, Neroli, Orange Blossom, Peach, Plum, Violet. Heart: Black Currant, Black Locust, Carnation, Cassia, Gardenia, Jasmine, Mimosa, Orchid, Red Berries, Rose, Tuberose, Ylang-Ylang. Base: Amber, Cedar, Musk, Sandalwood, Tonka Bean, Vanilla, Woody Notes.
What fragrance family is Amarige? +
Givenchy Amarige belongs to the Floral fragrance family. It is an EDT.
What other fragrances smell like Givenchy Amarige? +
Based on shared notes, Valentino Vendetta (Amber, Cedar, Carnation, Jasmine), Donna Karan DK for men (Amber, Cedar, Carnation, Cassia), Donna Karan Donna Karan for women (Amber, Cedar, Carnation, Cassia), Lancome Lancome Variety (Amber, Cedar, Jasmine, Mimosa), Lancome Poeme (Amber, Cedar, Jasmine, Mimosa) may smell similar to Amarige.
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Grey market retailers sell authentic fragrances sourced through unofficial distribution -- typically excess inventory from authorized distributors. The product is real and identical to retail. FragranceNet (est. 1997), Jomashop, and MaxAroma are well-established with millions of verified reviews.

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