Amaranthine by Penhaligon`s

Catbiscuit

Top notes were very weak to my nose, I barely caught them at all.

It has since bloomed to smell like a twin to YSL Cinema, albeit without the rich oiliness. Admittedly my nose isn't very sophisticated so I compared the notes and aside from Jasmine, Musk & Vanilla (in almost everything anyway), they have nothing in common. I cannot understand where this is coming from but I find them virtually indistinguishable.

Of course I really like it but I already have Cinema so a purchase of Amaranthine would be redundant.

Noelia

I smell it right now on my skin and i can say that on me smells like Sensuous by Estee Lauder.It doesn't suit on my skin..unfortunatelly.it's a nice perfume though!

sabel

First of all, Songes! This so reminds me of Annick Goutals Songes. Which I love so naturally I really really like Amaranthine.

It's beautiful, can't stop sniffing it. One of those intoxicating scents that make you go mmmm.. and smile content. It has such a lush feel to it, like green plants freshened by rain.
A bouquet of addicting flowers and some tropical green leaves.

Besides reminding me of Songes, Amaranthine makes me think of a certain place in the north of Israel where the hot humid air is heavy with the scent of flowers.

Mellyhelly

I had great expectations for this. An oriental floral with such a beautiful name and packaging could be my new treasure! When I had tha chance to try it on my skin, not only on paper, I felt very disappointed. It smells disturbingly vegetale from start to end. It smells of green leaves, namely banana leaves and then I smell a metallic edge. Where is the beauty of african Orange flower, ylang-ylang, rose, musk, vanilla??? Milk? Maybe an acrid one. It has a nauseous rotten vegetal smell that it slightly reminding of Cacharel Eden, even if the whole scent is different.
I will test it again, you never know, but I had this scent on my wrist and on jacket sleeves for many hours and didn't like it at all.

KJanicki

It starts green and floral, like fantasy tropical flower. It reminds me of a lily but fleshier, like thick jasmine. As it dries the floral gets sweaty and creamier. It's absolutely gorgeous. It's a steamy island fantasy.

Elisabeth M.

Amazing how perfumers nowadays succeed to create such a rare and original fragrance while an inumerable diversity of perfumes already is on the market. This scent is unique in its composition as it is oriental but not heavy in the base and starts with quite unusual and surprisingly bitter top notes. It is this development from a fresh bitterness in the beginning which layers down to a woody-creamy slightly vanillic scent that makes it bold and unique. On my skin may be a bit too masculine and edgy, I certainly will enjoy smelling it on others.

Mals86

This is that rare thing, a transparent oriental floral. I've worn it several times over the last week, in our cold and rainy weather, and I think it might be even more wearable in springtime, or for the evening at the end of summer.

What Amaranthine reminds me most of is an orchid greenhouse I visited during a trip to the Big Island of Hawaii, where we'd gone to see the volcanoes. That side of the island lacks resorts and that "tropical paradise tourist spot" vibe. It's greeeeeen, sprinkled here and there with flowers, but less suntan-oil-and-bikinis-and-maitais, more plump Hawaiian grandmas in bright housedress-like muu-muus, gardening outside their modest houses. It's *real* in a way that Maui is not.

And Amaranthine is *real* too - I smell the green banana and the freesia most strongly in it, along with a bit of orange blossom. It's not marine, but it is a bit watery, so that you think of, say, a light rain that lasts half an hour, and then goes away. There is just a hint of spice; to my nose it's far less than I expected given the list of notes. This dewy white floral eventually fades into a light, but sensual skin scent that is mostly wood and tonka bean on me, with a smoothness probably from the milky note, and there's the suggestion of warm, moist skin - not quite sweaty, but that humid breath skin seems to give off in a warm evening.

It's beautiful.

kewart

I have only smelled this once, whilst visiting Penhaligon's in September, but I can still remember the sensual "meatiness" of it weeks later. It is a hugely attractive, womanly perfume that is incredibly addictive. The milky, musky, woody basenotes give it a creamy gravitas and the banana and cardamom only add to the feeling of burgeoning ripeness. I predict this will be very popullar.