Par Amour Clarins 2005

Bottle Design Federico Restrepo

6.4 / 10 30 Ratings

A perfume by Clarins for women, released in 2005. The scent is floral-powdery. The production was apparently discontinued.

Main accords

Floral

Powdery

Spicy

Sweet

Oriental

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Blackcurrant

Cassia

Pink pepper

Heart Notes

Cardamom

Turkish rose

Vanilla

Base Notes

Amber

Benzoin

Labdanum

Sandalwood

Perfumer

Raphaël Haury

Ratings

Scent

6.430 Ratings

Longevity

6.216 Ratings

Sillage

5.313 Ratings

Bottle

6.320 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 01.02.2024.

Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

09/17/2023

6
Pricing 8
Bottle 4
Sillage 5
Longevity 5
Scent

MrsGuerlain
287 Reviews

MrsGuerlain

3

Cardamom and Turkish rose

The beginning of this is stunning. Blackcurrant, cassia and pink pepper in a really lovely mix. First time I sprayed it, I became a bit worried whether I had sprayed too much, because the impression is very fruity-sweet. But I must say: you can not overspray this scent. I guess “subtle” is its middlename.
I get vanilla from the start as well. The heart is full of cardamom, one of my favourite spices. The rose accompanies the note so well and with the vanilla it makes a beautiful whole. The base is not that outspoken, but a nice comfortable woody sensation.
The bottle is pretty. Today I have a very ordinary splash bottle but I have had the original as well. It seems to me that this might have been the inspiration for B de Boucheron from 2008, but that is my guess. I like the chunky feeling.
Par Amour is a nice, shortlived floral-sweet scent. Unfortunately, in my world, it does not have a lot of personality. When I spray it I think “oh yes, this is nice’ but I do not miss it, when it is gone, like I do with some of my favourites. This does not make it a bad scent, though. I just seem to pick this one very often.
68/365

07/14/2012

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

Very helpful Review 3

Sugar Frosted Wood Chips, but in a Good Way

Transparent rose, blackcurrant and cedar would make this sound like the recipe for a Lutens “bois de [insert note]” fragrance. But this doesn’t seem like any of the bois fragrances except for a shared sheer-but-sweet quality. This is more sugar-sweet than fruity-sweet, which would usually scare me off, but something in the undercurrent of this fragrance keeps it from getting too ditzy. I think it’s the peppery benzoin. As the scent evolves the sweetness and the blackcurrant fade and the cedar/rose combination wins out. The pepper lasts as well, enhancing both the rose and the cedar, and Par Amour ends up seeming like Barbie’s version of Parfum Sacré.

05/10/2012

7.5
Sillage 7.5
Longevity 6
Scent

Sherapop
1239 Reviews

Sherapop

Helpful Review 2

Not Romantic but Fraternal Love

Given the name of this perfume, I presumed in donning it that I was about to take a leisurely stroll down a rose petal-littered path. Instead, wearing Clarins' PAR AMOUR, I found myself in the midst of a dark forest of leafless sandalwood trees studded with thousands of tiny pink peppercorns! There are surely roses in this perfume somewhere, but they are very challenging to tease out...

As a rose scent, I'd have to say that PAR AMOUR doesn't measure up. However, as an oriental woody, it is really quite nice. This strikes me as another case where the marketing image and the product diverge rather drastically--with what must have been disastrous sales effects. All expectations of sweetness and light (and roses!) are swiftly defeated with the opening spritz. There may be a few people around who associate love with pink peppercorns and sandalwood, but I'd venture to guess that they are rare indeed.

Yet those who might genuinely appreciate PAR AMOUR would never find out--driven away as they would by a fear of everything that this fragrance is NOT. I'm thinking of woody scent lovers, men and women alike. From the peppery opening to the last fade of the dusty sandalwood drydown, this is a warm, woody scent. The love in question seems more fraternal than romantic to me.