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Amaranthine (EDP)

2009

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Versions Timeline

2009

Amaranthine (Original Release)

Price Range
$395 – $550

Estimated price range, including all bottle sizes

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Perfumers

Bertrand Duchaufour

"Amaranthine is an unconventional floral oriental created by Bertrand Duchaufour for Penhaligon's. Its opening combines green tea, banana leaf, cardamom, coriander, and white freesia for a fresh, leafy, lightly spiced introduction. The heart becomes richer and more sensual, blending jasmine, ylang-ylang, carnation, rose, orange blossom, and clove. A creamy base of condensed milk, musk, vanilla, sandalwood, and tonka bean gives the fragrance a lactonic, sweet, and intimate character. The contrast between green freshness, indolic florals, warm spice, and milky woods makes it distinctive and deliberately polarizing. Amaranthine is now regarded as a sought-after discontinued release from the house's early twenty-first-century catalogue."

Ideal Environment

Best Seasons

Fall
Winter
Spring

Ideal Weather

Mild
Cold
Cloudy
Dry

Moods

Adventurous
Alluring
Sensual
Mysterious
Creative
Confident

Occasions

Date
Dinner
Night Out
Formal
Cocktail Party

Fun Facts

The fragrance was promoted with the provocative description “a corrupted floral oriental.”

The fragrance's intimate character led fragrance enthusiasts to give it the unofficial nickname “Amaranthigh.”

AI Generated

Aromatic Profile

0m/8h
Top Notes
1x
GreenSpicyFloralFreshOrientalSweetCreamyWoodyAnimalicPowdery

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

0–1h 12m

cardamom absolute
banana leaf
green tea
coriander seed
white freesia
Middle Notes

1h 12m–3h 36m

clove
egyptian jasmine absolute
ylang-ylang
carnation
rose
orange blossom
Base Notes

3h 36m–8h

condensed milk
musk
vanilla
sandalwood
tonka bean absolute

Performance

Longevity
80%

Long-lasting (6-8h)

Sillage
70%

Strong

Reviews Summary

“Amaranthine is widely regarded as complex, audacious, and polarizing. Its green tea and banana-leaf opening develops into a heady spicy floral heart, while condensed milk, musk, and sandalwood create a creamy, intimate, slightly animalic drydown. Admirers value its originality and sensual warmth; detractors may find its lactonic and carnal facets challenging.”

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