Parfum Sacré (1990)
by Caron

This is a warm, rose-infused incense perfume. It avoids the very dry feeling of Comme de Garconnes' Avignon, but still invokes the note of olibanum or frankincense very well. The opening is sparkling lemon and slightly peppery. To me rose is the predominant floral in the midrange, but a rather dusky, spicy rose, combined with the resinous frankincense accord. The base is very warm and sweet, but not cloying; the entire scent is really very seamless and rounded.
This scent is not loud but it is long lasting. Just all-around wonderful!

15 reviews so far and ALL are thumbs-up! With good reason, Caron's Parfum Sacre' is absolutely gorgeous. I'm in complete agreement with every single commentary already posted. Parfum Sacre is the original incense rose and I can only encourage any perfume lover to sample this treasure, Parfum Sacre' will not disappoint!

delicate velvet flowers and honey musk.
stays close to the skin.
sensual and smooth like silk, but still a lady
i dab some behind my ears and under my chin
and i enjoy wafts of aroma throughout the day.

Oh, I do love Parfum Sacre'. I just bought a full bottle, my 3rd since getting seriously interested in perfume (after Diorissimo and JM Vintage Gardenia).

I picked up a sample of it because I was interested in the lemon and spices; I dabbed some on my wrists, and smelled... nothing. I dabbed a little more: still nothing. 2 hours later I could get only some faded rose essence and dust. Boooooring, I said. Scratch that one off the list. Later that day, I developed the mother of all winter colds, which persisted for the usual nasty two weeks.

I tried PS again a month later, in some nasty rainy cold winter weather... and smelled citrus! spices! warm elegant rose! incense! Wow. So that was what I'd been missing the first time. I am not a big rose fan, so I was surprised at how much I love the rose in this. It's warm, sexy, and glowing, and the incense provides a depth and richness I've not smelled anywhere else.

Husband loves it, which is a bonus.

This one is a little on the quiet side for me, too (okay, maybe a lot on the quiet side), but it's just so darned pretty that I can't help but like it. That thought sent me into a very slight emotional tailspin, as I couldn't understand why my heady, oriental-gourmand-woodsy-heavy incense-y loving self would actually like how softly and demurely Parfum Sacre played out on my skin. I go back and forth on this one-- at times it feels proper and refined. Then it somehow becomes terribly romantic.

This one is a gentle beauty, a little shy for me and the lasting power on me isn't great (sadly only about four hours). It is lovely and mysterious, though. I find it best for bedtime as a comforting whole body mist. My husband likes it, and it doesn't overpower him when we snuggle up together. I think it's very sensual. I get peppery, musky flowers that have started to wilt but are at their perfume prime. Dusky roses with heads drooping, one petal drops to the table...you get the idea. I get the slightest hint of aged cedar. I find it very womanly, though, don't quite know how a man could pull this one off although some say on here they can. To each his own I guess. For me, this has scent of a woman written all over it.