Amor pour Homme (2006)
by Cacharel

Notes: rose, "purple wood", vetiver
Ghastly stuff. Sweet, completely generic. I've smelled clones of this dozens of times.
Obnoxiously synthetic.
The rose and vetiver are missing in action.
On the other hand, this is the most ACCURATE rendition of purple wood I've EVER come across. :-(
"Igor, come to the laboratory and see what I've cooked up today..."
"Yes, master..."
An Avon catalogue reject.

18th December, 2010.

I have a housemate who wears this and I'm working up to telling him to ditch the stuff. Amor pour Homme is a hastily thrown together mixup of cheap soapy rubbish which quickly gives way to dreadful fumes of synthetic woody amber. A harsh, crass blend without a trace of nuance, it isn't even exceptional: it's patronisingly generic. I can only assume it is sustained by men making a perfunctory effort to smell good, not realising they would do better not to bother. Avoid.

18th January, 2010.

i don't agree with many people here : since first time the emplee sprayed it i felt in love with AMOR pour homme, A KIND OF FrESH MIx OF CITRous and sweet notes, i do found the famous rose note, in a twisted way, had very compliments with it and i tried the new AMOR TENTATION, EVEN BETTER!!!

21st September, 2008.

Tea for Two served in a lead cup. Dare you drink the tea from the lead cup and get ill or get a new cup and risk losing your tea? Well, no matter, the tea in this turns out bitter orange grown in a lab. Very synthetic which I mean to say ugly and tinny. Develops later into a sandalwood and amber drydown.

1st July, 2008.

Amor Pour Homme strikes me as urban in nature and delivery. The pyramid says citrus and tea, and I get those but the accord has a slight metallic tinge to it. I rather like it — it’s a bit sharp and it has and attractiveness about it. I don’t get much spice, just tea, citrus, and a bit of metal in a nonaggressive accord. The mid notes don’t offer me any spice either, and no rose—I get green in the middle level but nothing floral. Up to this point, the scent is pretty linear: tea, fern, and metal… It’s enjoyable in an abstract urban way. The base brings on a refined vetiver note along with some sweeteners—probably tonka; I don’t get a rosewood note and I find the whole base accord mostly generic anonymity and quite light. There’s not a lot to intrigue me about this fragrance: It’s not very interesting, but it’s an acceptably good scent. It’s nicely assembled, and it doesn’t strike me as particularly synthetic until the end of the drydown when the metallic note becomes too pronounced; but even this is not unpleasant. Amor Pour Homme is substantially linear and it doesn’t last very long. I don’t understand the name, because it doesn’t seem sensual or romantic. I think that it would work best as a day scent. (Edit of 16 October 2007 review.)

16th October, 2007. (Last Edited: 27th September, 2009.)

I do not detect any rose note in this fragrance, but do I care?

Scentemental wrote an eloquent review and obviously his nose is much better than mine, but I really like this fragrance very much.

"In its contemporaneity *Amor Pour Homme*, and Cacharel itself, assumes that those who will buy this fragrance will probably have never tried *Cacharel Pour L’Homme* nor will really want to."

I actually tried the original, owned a bottle in the 80's and loved it, because it wasn't that outspoken, cloying and powerful as other 80's fougeres (Drakkar noir, Polo, Paco Rabane, Trophee Lancome and even Lacoste original)

To my nose Amor is a very 'neutral' and extremely ordinary fougere.
It isn't innovative, doesn't smell different and is easily to dismiss as a generic, boring scent.
But I simply cannot come up with one fragrance that smells like this one.
I feel this fragrance, of all the fougere-like fragrances I tried, is the ultimate average, it seems to strive for an average of all good things.
Amor smells pretty timeless, whereas the original Cacharel Pour Homme is easily recognized as an 80's fragrance.

I want to make an analogy.
Some audiophiles have a certain auditioning rule: if the hifi-set audiotioned in the store doesn't sound that special, if it doesn't really stand out, it most likely will be the best choice.
The hifi components that did sound spectacular at first may irritate, cause listening fatigue when living with it for a longer period.

Not a strong analogy I guess, but what I am trying to say is that when I'm wearing a fragrance for a longer period the balance must be right, I have to feel at ease with it and not get annoyed by a certain distinctive note that is claiming its attention.

To me Amor is a great every day fragrance, nothing more and nothing less.

4th June, 2007.