Par Amour Clarins for women

I have lost count of the number of miniature bottles of Par Amour I have scored over the years included in gift with purchase initiatives I have accrued as the loyal devotee of Clarins skincare products that I am.

I have never cared for it to be frank. I just did not get it. Par Amour evaded me on all levels. Hence family and friends enjoyed the tiny little miniature bottles.

A few nights ago I was attending a Christmas VIP Event at my local Clarins salon and the regional rep was in attendance offering advice etc to the invited guests and she smelt exquisite. I found myself following her around like a hound (very discreetly I must add).

We started chatting and she assisted me with my purchases (life really is more beautiful with Clarins!) and before I knew it I had asked her the magic question: "What fragrance are you wearing?"

"Par Amour". With that she escorted me to the Fragrance tester bottles and started squirting Par Amour through the air on blotter and finally on my left wrist. My Tom Ford Voile de Fleur was on its last legs after a big day in the office so I didn't really mind.

Long story short I left the salon with numerous bags filled with goodies and a bottle of Par Amour! It smells beautiful on me too!

I wore this yesterday on clean skin and even this afternoon freshly showered and fragrance free Par Amour lingers with a memorable peppery cardomomy vanillary rose.

I`ve loved this scent so much for years! What a delightful combination of rose, benzoin and vanilla! But it`s discontinued, which makes me really annoyed... because I can`t have a signature scent that is already gone only available on e-bay...

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 pepper-like 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.

Quite sweet, nice and likeable - but not for me. I also had the impression that the staying power wasn't too good.

It is not discontinued yet in Laval, as I was just at the warehouse sale and they had it. It wasn't for me but definitly a more mature person.

Why only Clarins discontinued the fantastic lines of Par Amour and Par Amour Toujour?

I found my signature scent in Par Amour but had to change it for another as this one is not so easy to find these days. Cinema is a perfect signature scent too but Par Amour.... is just fantastic!

Somebody please make them bring it back in the original formulation!!!

The commercial text says that this is a fragrance for young ladies, strange, I think it is rather for mature wearers.
Par Amour opens with an almost cosmetic sensation: that of saturated, moisturized skin.
This opens my nose to the resinous-rosey-woody core notes. The resins are quite intense: sweet in a deep, spicy sort of way.
Wrapped around the composition is a nose tickling pink pepper accord.
The fragrance impresses me as calm and rich: full of good ingredients, well-blended. It can fill a room with its warm, sweet and somehow somber presence.
It keeps interest even in the dry-down, when it becomes spicy-woody. (good lasting power)
In my mind, PAR AMOUR projects the image of a well-groomed person. To be overall "bien soignee" as opposed to be "parfumee" is what I like when wearing this fragrance.
This-one I spray on clothes and hair, happens to work
much better than spraying directly on my skin.

Best perfume ever! It's definitely made for love as it named. Oh Gosh...it made me fall in love at the very first sniff. I feel beautiful, I love myself more than ever and definitely love how it glow on me. I keep sniffing myself over and over again like crazy. I take my words back if I ever talked about best perfume before because this is truely The Best!

Rosy Woody Sultry, no grandma's smell at all.
I'll love this till dead.

this is a wonderful soft scent - When I had it, I used it daytime at the office - perfect. Soft and a mild scent where roses, and vanilla stood out most. Longlasting power too - about 4 hours.

Härlig doft - som jag använde dagtid på arbetet (kontor) härligt mjuk doft där rosor och vanilj framträdde mjukt men tydligt. En doft som stannar nära den som bär den. Håller - på mig - ca 4 timmar, vilket jag tycker är bra.

wow. i am going to have to be the one to go against all the rave reviews...

i tried this today based on the ingredients all matching notes that i love (and the love, love, love reviews!!)... but i really don't love this at all...
:(

pros: it's well balanced. lasts pretty well... if u like the smell, then it's a winner all round...

cons: not my cup of tea at all... it has this woody pong note that is there from the start to the end. i don't know if it's the type of sandalwood, or the bezoin... really dislike it.

I love this! It's the only perfume i wear. I tried Par Amour Toujours as well but didn't like that as much. I am sad Clarins have discontinued it.

Very powerful, a very floral and powerful combination, I think is most appropriate for the office. Even if it is a very invasive EDP I find it a very attractive aroma, I think they would turn to see any girl who brought this perfume.

Wow, what a surprise! I'd thought that I was about to continue my leisurely stroll down a rose petal-littered path. Instead, wearing Clarins' PAR AMOUR, I find myself in the midst of a dark forest of leafless sandalwood trees studded with thousands of tiny pink peppercorns! There are surely roses here 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.

I often heard myself say "I don't do rose scents". Oh how wrong that statement is now.

The rose grounded in a combo of peppered warmth and woody resins is simply stunning.

Par Amour is deep soul embracing love not a flirtatious tease or fleeting romance.

Only Clarins could produce this complex masterpiece and retain the clean true to nature essence. No powdery dry down, No synthetic bite, No distracting floral additions - just gorgeous rose and soft wood.
(one gentle spritz is all you need - less is definitely more)

ps. I LOVE YOU
xoxo

The bottle is adorableand the box, with the the little envelop is utterly adorable if you're looking for a Valentine's gift or you're a guy looking for a special gift for a gal.

But I found the top notes not strong enough for my tastes, but I can't say that I don't like it. let's just say that the inside is not that special but the bottle is great to show off

As Janina already described it: this is an excellent and wellblended perfume and one of the mostloved in my perfume collection. As a member of the oriental floral family this scent is not too heavy and can be worn on a daily basis. In this composition the peppery-woody-musky notes are so well put together. Compared with music they evoke dark tones of a stringed instrument like a cello or viola da gamba. This scent is a bit similar to 'B' by Boucheron (which is another favorite of mine) but not as profound and rich, which makes Par amour easier to wear daily. Love it!

Par Amour is definitely one of the best perfumes out there. Excellent mix of natural components such as rose and woods accompanied by bensoin. Feminine, rich yet light with excellent fresh drydown, impressive sillage and great lasting power! Pitty they stopped selling it in Clarins shops within Ireland. Apparently it didn`t have enough fans here. I hope they will never reformulate or discontinue this one!!!

I got this as a gift and, since my mom has been using clarins cosmetics for several years now and they all feel and smell great, I opened the package without a second thought. Wrong!

I hate it. There is a woody smell in it I call"school pencils". Where are all these beautiful ingredients?

My brother brought this for me at duty free. I love the way it smells i mix it with my leave in conditioner and rub it through my hair

People tell me all the time that my hair smells great

I dont like it,i can smell something really green in it and i hate green scents..

I TRIED THIS PARFUME YESTERDAY AND I ADMIRE! SUDDENLY I CAN BUY!

I like par amour toujours more than this one,but this is lovely too.
though it's a florential fragrance,I don't consider it powdery.in fact the first notes are just spicy,with some hints of sweetness.
but the best part of it is the middle notes.the rose is very alive and present and the sweetness of vanilla makes it softer and a bit creamy.
as it remains on skin it becomes warm.the rose never disappears and the cardamon is well mixed.
I should agree with the reviewers.though it's lovely,personally I won't go to buy it.the bottle is a bit cheap and the fragrance is something between what the middle aged ladies like and what the young girls like,but don't satisfy neither of these groups.

this perfume is really long lasting but i am not 100%sure if i like it.....think that i dont:)

The bottle KILLss me. I love it. I love it. I have to agree with a mix of all the previous reviews. While I love the scent, it is fleeting, and not really worth the purchase.

its a beautiful scent i think, its not very strong, but feminine, and its true that its not for young, but not even a typical old lady smell, i think its ok

Grannies old socks,he,he.
It reminds me of my old job, which i hated.

It is feminine, lasting, clear and perfect for everyday use. Both men and women like it very much on me, makes them to relax.

beautiful bottle, unfortunately with nothing interesting inside. powdery and sultry.