Amor pour Homme (2006)
by Cacharel

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!!!

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.

Amor Pour Homme strikes me as quite urban in nature and delivery. The pyramid says citrus and tea, and I get those but it has a slight metallic tinge to it. I rather like it — a bit sharp and certainly not unattractive. I don’t get much spice, just tea, citrus, and a bit of metal in a non aggressive 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. The base brings on a refined vetiver note along with some sweeteners — probably tonka. I don’t find Amor Pour Homme very interesting — it’s a very nice scent, nicely assembled, and it doesn’t strike me as particularly synthetic until the end of the drydown when the metallic note becomes pronounced; but even this is not unpleasant. It is linear and it doesn’t last very long. I don’t understand the name…I don’t find it very sensual or romantic. I think that it would work best as a day scent.

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.

This is not bad, and it isn't goo either, it is more weird that anything. I read about the rose and it became clear that it is the source of weirdness with this frag. It isn't a must have for the collection. It last quite well. This should be unisex.

Walking with one of my twin daughters on a department store I found several advertisements about a recent release of Amor pour Homme on that place. I read about it 3 months ago that it was one of the first masculine fragrances using roses... so I decided to try how it was.

Testing it on paper, the top notes I felt was citrics, not in a fresh way, for a while... then middle notes of fouguere and green appeared and stayed. Didn't felt the rose notes nor vanilla or tonka like notes.

The result is very classic, so much for my taste. There's a note (the assistant who sprayed it said it was vetiver) that gives me the idea of seeing a 40+ years old man, dressed in an old fashioned sport style (brown polo shirt, white pants, white cordless shoes). I should preferred something different, more animal or sensual (and not so average) to deserve the title "Amor".

As a green, fouguere fragrance, it's suitable for all seasons except winter, for daytime use (for evening events I should preferred something stronger and I didn't dare to bore my wife with it at a romantic event). The fouguere notes raises the range of age to something upper 35 years old.