Amoureuse (2002)
by Delrae

This is potent love juice ! Quite beautiful floral chypre - old worldly charm .Very well blended florals ,smells strong and classical . Use with caution as this could easily overwhelm .

21st July, 2010.

Amoureuse is a big -- and I mean BIG -- incandescent white floral: strong open, massive sillage, buttery-soft finish. Superbly blended and well-thought-out. It's glamorous, romantic, womanly etc etc hypoerbole etc... but maybe the most important bit of information here is that it isn't exactly easy to wear. It's not a casual fragrance by any means. You have to be woman enough to wear this fragrance, because otherwise it will wear you.

21st July, 2010.

Very lovely and spirited. It's a girl-next-door kind of pretty, yet subtly sensual fragrance with a whole lot of white florals and a little bit of honey and sandalwood to skank it up in the drydown. The honey, while not sweet, prevents it from smelling like every other floral. I'm not a fan of white florals, so I can't stomach this. And exactly as a previous reviewer said--I didn't get any tangerine or tuberose like I had hoped--it was almost all jasmine and honey. But I do appreciate its composition and I think it makes an absolutely perfect scent for a very specific kind of person.

8th May, 2010.

Manuel Canovas makes a gorgeous candle that smells just like this scent. It' comes in a luxe blue shagreen-effect box, and is called 'Nuits de Serendip'. I loved it so much, for a while I actually saved my pennies to buy these extravagant candles to scent my home (before I discovered cheaper 'Goldleaf 'candles). So, when I smelled 'Amoureuse' today, I was a little dumbfounded by the nostalgia blast. It even seems to replicate the snuffed wick and wax effect.
It moreover reminded me of a quirky friend from then used to actually wear the pink shagreen Canovas ('Palas d'Ete) room spray as perfume, her rationale being that at 75 bucks a pop, it was basically a fine fragrance, so what? ...

Anyway, good times.

And for me, at least, this is more of like, a wearable fine room spray... or rather, I love it, but might like it even more as a perfect home scent. :)

18th April, 2010. (Last Edited: 27th July, 2010.)

Amoureuse's top notes are pure heaven for me - easily my favorite top notes of any fragrance I've ever smelled. For those alone, I wish Amoureuse a long life and greater popularity. The world needs more perfect moments like this.

The top notes are a seamless mixture of tangerine, tuberose, and cardamon, the last in particular adding a delightful twist on this fragrance. This accord is very intense, but nuances in the background include a certain nameless green quality and slight dewy note. Do not think the latter makes this as an aquatic; it doesn't. It merely gives a slight coolness, and places it somewhere between Manoumalia and En Passant, two florals that have a similar note hiding somewhere in their structure.

In the heart, the drama leaves and we're left with a fragrance in a more familiar territory: a mixed floral chypre. The florals are very realistic and only slightly powdery. I detect tuberose, jasmine, lily, lilac, and muguet at one point or another; a shimmering quilt of different flowers. In the way that CdG's recent release Daphne was a bit of an eye towards the mixed-florals of yesteryear with a nod towards orientals, the heart of Amoureuse has a similar tone of homage, this time to classic florals with a chypre base. None the less, like Daphne, Amoureuse is a modern fragrance. There is a distinctly modern greenness, akin to Carnal Flower, that livens up the mossy background.

The base is perhaps the least remarkable, but none the less still beautiful. On my skin at least, the lilac seems to dominate a little more and some of that peculiarly enchanting accuracy of the other flowers quiets down to accompaniment volume, while moss gives a pleasant if familiar encore.

Sillage and longevity are well above average on me, but this is no way coarse or brash. "Powerhouse" is too crude a term. Amoureuse is loud like an orchestra, not like a rock concert.

11th February, 2010.

This is the true "masculine" tuberose. Sort of what I expected when reading about Carnal Flower which disapointed me on the wearability domain. The opening is like putting tuberose and a LOT of grass in a blender. Actually an aetherial blender, a whirlpool, a hurricane. On mys skin it is not heady at all. It is bitter green with the accent on the fume quality of the tuberose, not the headiness. In this sense it is to tuberose what Sarassins is to jasmin. The bitter grassy character persists through the heart of the fragrance and then in the base honey and musk emerge. Only there I could find hints of sweetness ar anything that could point towards a feminine character.
In short, this is a unique tuberose and a must try for Carnal Flower lovers. Big thumbs up.

30th January, 2010.