98. Amouage Existence Review | Nectar Atelier

👋 Hi fragrance friend,

Crafted by Quentin Bisch, Amouage Existence wears like a meditative veil—angelic yet grounded. It opens like dawn: a breath of cool aldehydes, pale light, and calm air. Then comes the warmth—resin and Hojari frankincense weaving into something soft, luminous, alive.

Existence rests and lingers like a gentle pulse on the skin—reminding us that presence doesn’t have to be loud to be felt. As I breathe in those sacred drops of frankincense, I see the inspiration mirrored in the bottle’s soft green hue.

Some fragrances feel like more than scent—they feel like stillness, like a pause in the rush of things.Existence is for those who crave grounded clarity and calm.

As I revisit Wendell Berry’s poem The Peace of Wild Things, I am struck by how closely its quiet reverence mirrors what I feel when wearing this fragrance. Existence offers a soft veil from the noise of the world—a moment of luminous calm and grounding presence.

The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry | When despair for the world grows in meand I wake in the night at the least soundin fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,I go and lie down where the wood drakerests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.I come into the peace of wild thingswho do not tax their lives with forethoughtof grief. I come into the presence of still water.And I feel above me the day-blind starswaiting with their light. For a timeI rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

I’m deeply inspired by Berry’s words. His poem captures something I feel when I wear Amouage Existence—a return to stillness, to presence. Like the poem, this fragrance evokes a sense of surrender: the gentle clarity of lily of the valley and rose, the luminous breath of frankincense, the tender grounding of resins. 

Existence wears like a soft veil between you and the world—calm, radiant, and expansive, like standing near water at dawn, when the mind finally lets go and begins to feel peace.

💮 Shop Amouage Existence: Luxe Samples and 10ml Spray 

With kindness, 🕊 Flor