Amouage Search

The Bottle

Search combines a blue-green rectangular body with a cream cap that spreads out like a small fan. A gold-coloured neck band adds warmth between the two, while the pale front crest remains neat and centred. The cap is clearly the visual hook, but the cooler body colour prevents the presentation feeling too ornate. It’s an effective balance between a conventional perfume shape and Amouage’s theatrical instincts. Clean, unusual and easy to spot, this bottle gets its character from contrast rather than elaborate decoration or a complicated outline.

Original or Clone

The credited perfumer, Alexis Grugeon, is the clearest reason to take Search seriously as the original: that authorship belongs to this release, not to an interpretation. Its citrus, aromatic and fresh-spicy profile has also attracted attempts to reproduce it, with four interpretations from three houses currently tracked. That activity gives Search genuine reference status, though it does not tell us how closely any copy performs.