By Dane
What would you expect when seeing these brightly coloured, biomorphic bottles? I thought maybe something wacky, something daring...I was wrong. What you get is the beautifully subtle Kenzo Amour.
Amour is an interesting contrast of edible and inedible notes. I'm not typically drawn to vanilla scents, they either veer towards the candy-sweet (Comptoir Sud Pacifique) or the boozy-bitter (Guerlain Spiriteuse Double Vanille). Amour is different. Opening with a faint floral note, followed by a slightly chemical, plastic-like vanilla and amber accord, then drying into a sweet musk, not unlike something you'd smell in a dryer sheet, Amour is unlike any other vanilla scent on the market (although Gaultier2 comes close).
Sound appealing yet? It didn't to me either, until I read the advertised notes. There are notes that will always appeal to certain people, whether or not they're actually incorporated into the scent. I've always loved rice pudding, and as soon as I read the word "rice", everything about Amour made sense. The milky texture is what first flew over my head, but now that I recognize it, it's the highlight of the scent for me.
Kenzo recently release Amour Le Parfum, an extrait version of the original. Is it the same? No. Is it better? To me, no. The raspy amber notes are intensified, which to some is a dream come true, but to me, lost the plot of the original entirely.
Year: 2006
Perfumer: Daphne Bugey, Olivier Cresp
Notes: Rice, Musk, Frangipani Blossom
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