Amoureuse Parfums DelRae for women

I think this fragrance is incredibly beautiful. If it were jewelry, it would be Schlumberger's Bird on a Rock with a Tiffany yellow diamond, and also Schlumberger's iconic Two Bees ring, with a diamond at the center. Amoureuse has curvilinear rhythms like Art Nouveau snakes, and it seems to blast white light, and white noise as it highlights the interconnectivity of natural and manufactured. A note that permeates throughout wear reminds me of waxy pollen on the anther of a clematis; sweet,and sticky. The animalic characters of jasmine and tuberose are intensified by cardamom and moss, and slight touches of honey warm this oddly chilling fragrance. I know this is classified as a Floral, but on my skin it's a musky-woody-chypre. It's incredibly heavy (think Aromatics Elixir-heavy), but its overall spotlight on linden makes it completely irresistible to me. I'd rather smell it, than wear it though, which doesn't make much sense. When we talk about fragrance "taking you to another place", it's perfumes like Amoureuse that inspire this reaction. Amoureuse has so much intensity, it seems like it could take over, like some changeling soul snatcher. Amoureuse has a power that seems almost supernatural, because its so very strong and evocative. It's undoubtedly a work of genius, and, to me, its even more beautiful than Perfume de Therese. Houdini would give this to Bess.

Because of my perfume history, whenever I smell tangerine in the opening I will always think of Parfum de Therese. With Amoureuse I thought "Ooh, Roudnista + tangerine=I will like!" But alas, there are a couple of missteps for me, and they are: too much white floral and not enough woody base.

I've now smelled the majority of Del Rae's fragrances and I"ve come to believe these are marketed to a very specific profile; just as Caron parfums are marketed specifically to myself.

The person who can wear Del Rae is someone whose chemistry sinks white florals. This person probably gravitates towards the fruities and has a big ol' jasmine garden outside their window.

I gravitate towards green woodies, deep orientals and dry spices. Amoureuse is interesting to me because of the opening, but as others are pointing out, there is a big sweetness factor here. keep that in mind when deciding to sample.

Super strong, mildly spicy floral vanilla up front, with notes of jasmine and lilac. I can also smell the tangerine that’s listed in the notes, more in the sillage than up close. It is slightly reminiscent of the honeyed scent of linden blossoms, but bigger and more of a white floral. I believe I detect a good bit of aurantiol, which bolsters up the citrus and gives it a bit of an orange-blossom note.

Amoureuse is a well-made perfume that’s too heavy on the florals for my taste. I think it’s the lilac note, whatever that is, that detracts from what would I would otherwise enjoy for its spicy, green, linden, honey character. Despite the roaring start, the scent only lasts a few hours, fading away into nothingness without much change on the way.

"YOUTH DEW meets BOUDOIR" is how I would describe Parfums DelRae AMOUREUSE, which is not necessarily a bad thing. It all depends on how one feels about the oily tarrish quality of YOUTH DEW and BOUDOIR's bizarre Dentyne-like minty freshness atop a soiled layer of lingerie. These unseemly notes combine in AMOUREUSE to produce a rather unique perfume.

Slightly more oriental than anything else--beyond sui generis--I would hesitate to call this a modern chypre, for it doesn't have the same delightfully addictive quality that I've found in my favorite perfumes from that category. AMOUREUSE is definitely wearable, but I don't find it compelling, and I do truly believe that anyone who wants to smell like this could achieve the very same effect by soaking in a YOUTH DEW oil-tinged bath and then spritzing on BOUDOIR.

I do detect a note in common with LP de Therese- but I cannot wear the Malle even though it is interesting. Amoureuse is incredibly warm and wearable on me even though the jasmine is a little dirty in the opening notes! Like the others of this line it seems to morph quickly and become a warm, intoxicating skin scent that is very tenacious. Impressive for sure ( Mythique is still tops).

Wow, a majestic and serious floral, with good fixatives-modern chypre if you like. I get a combination of jasmine and tuberose that could knock me out almost, yet they smell as beautiful as a gated garden in a country town-with the flowers overtaking the gate-There is a nice touch of honey and cardamom, but they smell as if they were added in very small doses to make this BIG WHITE FLORAL more interesting. Surprisingly animalic, reminding me of some (not big name) vintage perfumes I tried, but Amoreuse is modern enough to wear out. The roaring animalics are all-or mostly indole, according to the notes, but it's really quite amazing.I adore the smell, but it is quite perfumey-meaning I love the strong intoxicating aura at first, but I grow weary of it very quickly-a bit of subtlety means more addictive-less drunkening. I applied the normal amount I would apply when testing a fragrance-0.1 ml I estimate-If I ever want to wear this again, 1 tiny dab to 2 pressure points would certainly be enough.

At first application I was reminded of Alberto V05 Hot oil hair treatment. It just had a thickness to the opening that reminded me of oil. The tuberose is fine but I'd prefer a little less jasmine. Give it about an hour though and the honey is more evident which I prefer. Luckily the cedar is retiring but so are the florals and oak moss which is too bad. On the low end of like for me and that's only because of the appealing honey drydown. If the opening continued in strength, it'd be on the dislike list for me.

"Amoureuse" is a "modern" chypre. Roudnitska chose tuberose and oakmoss as the basis—those are big, challenging, opinionated smells going at one another. But the results are a symphony.

In wearing “Amoureuse,” I’ve recorded the following impressions: “sparkling pink tuberose and pale green cardamom bubbles;” “marvelous hot buttered Kettle Corn;” “the loveliest lightly-mulled chamomile tea and honey you ever tasted.” And finally, “the happy intersection where cinnamon meets champagne.”
I LOVE "Amoureuse."

Here we have some true flower power! I applied Amoureuse EDP to my wrists and the tops of my forearms approximately 12 hours ago, and the fragrance is still going strong in both spots. That is very impressive for a floral scent in eau de parfum concentration!

Amoureuse starts out juicy and subtly sweet, like slicing into a ripe melon. The sweetness here is very different from the sugared berries and buttery vanillas that are common in so many modern fragrances.

This gentle sweetness gives way (after several hours! These are some of the longest-lasting top notes I've had the pleasure of wearing!) to beautiful floral notes with a whisper of green. The usually-loud tuberose and jasmine present themselves as a gentle floral bouquet in Amoureuse, with neither one competing for attention. My nose doesn't detect the cedar, cardamom or oakmoss as individual notes, but the fragrance has a bit of a green undertone, like a new green twig snapped from a tree in Springtime. The green aroma becomes more detectible as the fragrance dries down.

I am not sure what accounts for this, but I also perceive a cooling sensation in my nostrils when I sniff this fragrance.

Amoureuse is beautiful, feminine, complex and modern, even though it contains many traditional perfume notes. It's a masterful blend whose whole is greater than its parts. At he same time, you could stop the evolution of this fragrance at any point and the aroma would be very pleasant and wearable. To me, that's a mark of high quality.

A beautiful mysterious masterpiece, a slow unfolding epic of honey infused with white flowers heady and sweet rests in the slender bark of a cedar tree. My husband love it, and it turns heads!

Tuberose and cardamom. I get mostly cardamom and my sister gets gorgeous velvety tuberose with notes of cardamom.

Herad it on Nowsmellthis that has similarities to Le Parfum de Therese (Frederic Malle) but having had samples of both I think the link is mostly psychological as the perfumers are fathers and son (Roudnistska). Commonalities include the fact that both are fruity chypres.