Hello Beautiful !
This is a woody oriental fragrance evoking the many legends of the ancient Silk Road journey from China to Arabia. As the guiding light of the mystical journey he is the omniscient force of nature – the guardian of the Legend.
A blazing thrust of Pink Pepper and Nutmeg studs an aromatic and camphoraceous bouquet of Myrtle and Cardamom coloured by a suave touch of Saffron, Cumin and the citrusy tang of Mace.
While a Geranium, bursting with floral greenness, continues the clean and sparkly opening, the honeyed, bittersweet Myrrh preludes the dark and sonorous complexity of the woody base.
The animalic intensity of Musk and Castoreum responds to that of a barely tanned Leather. Between luminous strands of Cedarwood and Frankincense, Sandalwood whispers its milky sweetness before being eclipsed by a splendid and masterful, imposing and tenebrous: an imperial Oud.
A journey through light and darkness, Epic Man is a deep, woody composition evoking the might of the omniscient spirit of nature.
The Story
Epic Man is an eau de parfum that was created by Randa Hammami and released in 2009. The inspiration was two-fold: the legendary Silk Road and Puccini’s Turandot opera which is set in China but based on a tale involving a Persian princess and a deadly riddle.
The theme of this latest Amouage fragrance is the legendary aria from Puccini´s unfinished opera, Turandot. The legend says that one day the composer Puccini completed the opera and then buried the completed work somewhere in the sands along the Silk Road. The last act of the opera, it is said, was an incomparable aria, which could not possibly be sung by a human voice...
The legendary city of Ubar in Oman is the starting point for a journey in search of this missing aria, which leads us along the Silk Road through the Orient and over the highest mountains in the world – to China. The way of the ancient caravans, that carried silk and other treasures over many hundreds of miles, where tea, gold, pearls and jade from China where exchanged for precious silver frankincense from the Oman – a legendary land where the valuable raw materials can be found that were used in the composition of this new Amouage fragrance.
