PG10 Aomassai Parfumerie Generale for women and men

It smell like eggs.

I should declare from the outset that gourmands are a genre of fragrance I feel unable to embrace. The desire or need to feel edible has never been one of my priorities. That said, Aomassai is undoubtedly an interesting and intelligently constructed scent, I can admire it from afar.

Beyond the thick children’s dessert opening, which is a heavy caramel and hazelnut combo, it actually settles into something light and soothing. There are no sharp edges, and the initial excesses are reined in significantly to leave something accessibly sweet and cool on the skin.
This is certainly not for those with a diabetic palate, but for others, this will be high quality comfort food.

Sharp spicy resin and incense plus licorice. And right after the opening something goes wrong on my skin. It smells like a burning wood for me (I've been expecting to get cozy scent from hazelnuts and my favorite notes vetiver and resin), but I guess, it is licorice and incense that ruins the whole composition. I'm glad I've tried it but I would suggest sampling this before buying the whole bottle.

WOW! I just smelled this today and I am in love. I MUST save up my money to buy a full size of ths fragrance because I always want to have it with me. always. I have FINALLY found a licorice that I love. Oh, it's so good. Wait I have to have another sniff...mmm.

Yes, it is very sweet, but there is the incense in there to change from bubble-gum Barbie to let me nibble your neck.

In a way, it smells like christmas, but the part of Christmas where you are in a Catholic church filled with pastries for after the service, while the priests are swinging that incense burner. It also reminds me slightly of a cross between pfefferneuse cookies and mexican wedding cake cookies. both of those are sold around christmas.

But don't fear that you will be smelling like the christmas tree and pumpkin pie. This is a sit in front of the fireplace with your sweetie, sipping a hot spiked beverage, nibbling sweet cookies kind of fragrance.

If you don't like sweetness in your fragrace, you may not be able to get past it with Aomassai, but if you do like a little sweet with your spice, give this one a shot.

Aomassai is a voluptuous, musky gourmand scent that generously wraps around you its warm sweetness. Initially, the sweetness can make you think of burnt sugar, more so than caramel and toasted hazelnuts, but don't be put off by this association I am making. It is an original creation. The spices, vetiver, and orange, which are all very well blended by the way, give it quite a bit of an edge. It's an unconventional blend of sweet and warm notes with aromatic piquant notes. I'm not a massive fan of licorice, and it is yet another note that is blended seamlessly. Not a huge fan of vetiver either. I certainly did not expect to like it as much as I did. I just wanted to get an olfactory experience because it was on my list of "must try" and to my surprise it was love at first sight.
Doesn't develop much, long-lasting, unisex.
Aomassai is not a streamline sweet fragrance. The closest association that I have with it is jazz music. Now, go try it!

This is a great unisex scent!! Honestly perfect for men or women with the perfect balance of all those notes. I smell all of them, except maybe veyiver and it's blended perfectly. I'm not a fan of resin or licorice much and they are here but neither are string enough to make me hate it. I definitely get the gourmand caramel but it's not cloying or overly sweet. It's not my favorite scent ever but really well done.

Be not mistaken about 'sweet' or 'gourmand'! On my skin, Aomassai is very masculine. After a nice opening that reminds me of Poison, I smell a woodsy, soapy licorice, with indeed a hint of toasted hazelnuts... Smells like my former boyfriend's atershave, or old-fashioned Gilette shaving foam.

When I dabbed this on I was a little taken aback - it smells like a candle! The licorice note helps to keep it from being burningly sweet. It's delicious but something I would perfume pillows and curtains with in cold months rather than myself.

Anyone into gourmandic fragrances should try Aomassai as it's one of the most complex, original and compelling compositions in the genre. Caramel, nuts and vanilla represented in their roasted/smoky side. Burnt sugar, hints of incense and "sweet" liquorice join the party in the drydown. Dark, deep and very distinctive.

While I'm usually not into gourmandic fragrances I believe Aomassai brings this genre to a brand new level that's far from being cloying, overly sweet or simply "appetizing", introducing some darkness and mistery to a cathegory that too often is an end in itself.

Rating: 8/10

Another skin chemistry problem for me but I can imagine this being delicious on someone else. A promising opening of caramel and hazelnut quickly morphed into something like Friar's Balsam, and my skin even felt hot where I had applied it! Now, half an hour later it has mellowed out and that bitter herbal smell has disappeared, leaving behind a repeat of the opening notes, caramel, nut and a trace of incense. The interesting start and bottom notes do not cancel out the medicinal middle for me, and it's a thumbs down. Glad to have tried it though.

I do not get any coffee at all! None! Nor licorice, that I've noted. (It's got to be a chemistry thing) But I definitely do get caramel, and when I say caramel, I mean hot butter and browned sugar. And with this is the smell of wood smoke. As a rule, I'm not a huge lover of gourmands, but when I want something sweet and warm and comforting, this is one of the ones I like. It's not just sweet, it's got depth and it is interesting.

Also, when I wear this, I get compliments. I've even gotten compliments from friends who don't like or wear perfume.

It lasts all day and it's got some throwing power.

The entire experience of wearing Aomassai is not unlike being 'owned' by a rather slinky black cat.

The opening feels a little shaky and rough like a cat circling your lap, looking for the ultimate comfortable spot of your skin to make its own; there is milky coffee and something ashy, maybe charbroiled liquorice root.

Once it settles, like a cat it slowly relaxes into slumber. At first, it is still conscious and twitching; here some liquorice, there some soft spices, a few wooden nuances, dry hazelnuts and some truly delicious hazy incense.

As it loses its grip on consciousness, you are left with a slumbering, warm, silky wooden caramel incense cloud. The constant purring will keep you enchanted for at least 6 hours.

well, having read the reviews, i must confess, this is more like a gourmand scent on my skin. I do not get anything medicinal, spicey or much of the woods/vetiver/incense.

I like this one being cosy, reminds me of a coffee-flavoured chocolate i used to have back when i was a child with a wee bit of nutty upbeat.

One me it opens extremely medical. Sniffing from the vial is way better than applying to the skin. At least - my skin. In the vial it smells like chocolate and licorine a tiny bit, but on my skin it's just pure medicine. Actually I think I'm smelling something like eucalyptus, very similiar to PG's Bois Blond at the beginning. It slowly changes, but is not loosing the "medical" note on my wrist. It get's warmer and more likeable, but I still don't have the "coffee and milk" or any other food-like scents.

Ah, damn that skin chemistry. Test before buy. Based from all the reviews one could expect something ultra beautiful, but it's really just the chemistry. Mine does not work with this one.

When first applied, this smells to me like cream soda. Then it dries to a stickier cream soda smell then finally a woody, creamy melted carmel. Not bad, but I much prefer Bois Blond if I were getting a bottle from this house. (Not that I find the two the least bit similar) I was hoping this would be a more affordable substitute for Guerlain's Gourmand Coquin, but I personally don't think it comes close.

At first I could only smell burnt sugar,luckily after half an hour that did change and something green came out on the surface,you had the feeling that you were taking a walk in the Amazon!wonderful!

The notes in this scent intriqued me so I had to get a sample. When I first put it on, all I could smell is something like a very good dark maple syrup with a hazelnut flavor. Is that bad? No. But as a perfume I dont think it works. I get all these food notes like coffee with milk. On me it smells like I just finished a shift at starbucks or IHOP.

I first tried Aomassai about two years ago and my first reaction to it wasnt that positive so I put it in my purgatory basket and forgot about it. However, a couple of weeks ago I was trying out Cadjmere and I loved it but there was something in it that didnt quite work so well on my skin, I'm guessing the cypress. So I came to think about my forgotten Aomassai sample. I dug it out and tried it on.

I went downstairs and made myself a cup of coffee and a cinnamon bun then I sat down to read a book. What happened next was the weirdest thing. I got this sweet caramel like coffee scent off my skin. This persisted for quite some time untill it morphed into a incense cocoa scent laced with woods. I was smitten.

So I tried it the following day. This time I didnt get the caramel in the opening but a nougat. And no incence but something sweet hay like with coffee, cocoa and roasted hazelnuts. The dry down was a sweet vanilla wood.

I've been wearing it for a week now and everyday is a new experience. This is a very complex scent. I do get some Bois Blond like notes in the middle stages, but not as dry.
You should absolutely try this one, it's a gem but it seems to react diffrently to peoples body chemistry. So make sure to buy a sample and DONT do a blind buy!
I dont get any liqourice or vetiver except from the bottle but you might :)

Aomassai just feels like a scent that has been created by a genius. It has the most delicious notes of roasted hazelnuts, caramel, coffee and licorice that are tempered by the woods and incense in the base. I glow when I put this on and feel I am going on a journey to a very special place, where flames flicker on a bonfire and the forest is alive with sweet possibilities. Very few perfumes take me on an olfactory voyage - this is one of the best.

I have one thing on my mind lately; namely to ask my employer to transfer my wages straightaway onto Pierre Guillaume's account. I can hardly find a fragrance of his which I don't like. Aomassai hits the high lights, Drama Nuui is my bitter jasmin marvel, not to mention Jardin de Kerylos, Iris Taizo and Corps et Ames - a fig, an iris and a chypre interpretation (those are not in the Fragrantica's database)- all my favourites of the line.
If I had to describe Aomassai with a word I would say that it is the smell of the flame. If you have ever sit around a campfire I'm pretty sure you'd understand me. (Rebella's description is a spot-on)
I wonder that I see many reviews about the sweetness of this fragrance since it shows its dry woody face on my skin.
I can definitely smell the bitter orange, the licorice, the incense in the opening. The licorice note is vigorous first, but it disappears quickly (luckily for me; anyone who knows me knows I don'like it at all). While licorice fades, woody notes unfold itself and stay in the drydown. But no sweetness (which I don't really mind - secretly).

This is simply wonderful. It kicks off with a burst of caramel which never really goes away - it keeps playing peek-a-boo with the coffee and the cocoa. Sounds like a sweet, cloying gourmand, doesn't it? Well, it isn't really one. The edible notes are backed up by heaps of dry, exotic spices and a fair dose of smoky vetiver and incense that transport you to some quiet and peaceful faraway place where the sky goes red at dusk. The overall effect is comforting and contemplative, it's familiar and strangely exotic at once. With its wonderful evocative powers it really embodies niche at its best, daring to push the envelope.
The scent has presence, but is never overbearing or cloyingly sweet, with a nearly unrivalled staying power. I find it to be totally unisex, an open-minded man could easily pull this off and make women swoon over his exquisite taste.

Lovely woody, ambery. Dries down to a warm vanilla wood with foody tones; caramel, incense. Just edible.

Thank You rebella for showing Aomassai - it is absolutely fabulous fragrance!On my skin I can smell the scent of a strong espresso coffee that turns into the lighter scent of espresso coffee with milk foam on top and chocolate shavings and at the end it leaves the scent of hot chocolate (cocoa) - really luv it!Unfortunately I can't smell the sea and the pines which I'm sure are there. Our noses are so different but the fragrance is great anyway!!!

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Can you compare it to any other fragrance it reminds a bit?

P.S. Where are you ordering the samples of this one?

On me the licorice isn´t that strong. I noticed it, but not at all overwhelmingly. But I have also noticed that licorice never become strong on me, so if you know that licoricenotes have a tendensy to be strong on you, it might be in this one too.

Is the note of licorice strong in this fragrance? After your review i'm dying to try it out!:)

I have to admit that I have beaten around the bush (I hope thats what you say in english) about writing a review on this perfume.

Why? Because it´s so bad? No, because it´s so good!

Not far away from where I live there is a sandy seabay, wrenched pines grows there and the bay is a popular place for both sunbathing and picnics. When I put on this fragrance it is like being transported to an perfect imaginary image of that place.

I can see myself strolling trough the pineforrest, smelling the campfire my husband have make and my kids are roasting mashmallows over the flames. It is a sunny, crisp day in the autumn and the sea is calm, but very close. The air of sea and autumn makes the fragrance clear, hightuned and delicatly thin even tough the fragrance have so many heavy, warm and spicy notes. I havn´t a clue how Pierre Guillaume pull this off, but he sure do!

In a way it is like smelling on a soapbubble, without making it burst! A must try for everyone! Longlasting, elegant and both happy, tender and mysterious in the same fragrance. A masterpiece. I guess I must have a big bottle of this someday, even tough it is a very expansive perfume it´s sure worth the money. Until then I have to order a new sample, because this was my last drops of it!