The perfume arrives on the market in September 2010 and belongs to leather-animalistic-chypre fragrances. Perfumers Daniel Maurel and Dorothée Piot built it around central note of absynth. Top notes are cardamom, mandarin orange, pink pepper and wormwood; middle notes are clove, incense, pepper, woodsy notes, jasmine, rose and white flowers; base notes are musk, french labdanum, oak moss, styrax and leather. It is a part of fragrant pair along with edition for men. Available as 50 and 100 ml Eau de Parfum. Memoir Woman was created by Daniel Maurel and Dorothee Piot.

His Highness Sayyid Hamad bin Hamoud al bu Said had a dream to restore the great Arabian art of perfumery to the region. Amouage is a luxury perfume house established in Oman in 1983 by the Sultan of Oman. Amouage uses traditional for the Middle East perfume ingredients such as agarwood, incense, musk, rose and spices, but the developers of the scents are perfumeurs from the major fragrances&flavor companies.