Amor Amor Tentation
Cacharel (2008)

Summary: Unusual scent, sort of a woody fruity spicy aroma. I like it!

For some reason, this fragrance seems to behave very differently for different persons. On me it is smoky and bitter and not sweet at all. Other people find it sweet, however. Try before you buy.

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This fragrance is quite different from the usual when applied on me, as it does not evolve like the usual top -> middle -> base notes.

Instead, it sort of oscillates between different aspects from the beginning, and stays like that. Sometimes I smell something deep and fruity like some kind of bitter berries (I don't know exactly which), even though they are not listed in the notes. Sometimes the cedar comes on top with something smoky on it. Sometimes the spices, not sweet at all, peppery and dark. There's also something bitter and sort of mysterious, as I would expect in a dry drink.

A Fall scent.

While I love Cacharel as a fragrance house, I can't help feeling disappointed by its most recent perfumes.

I loved the original Amor Amor and when I saw the advertisements for this fragrance I hoped for something unique, dark and slightly dusty like Lou Lou or Eden. While this fragrance is nice it is no where near being dark and mysterious. I didn't find this fragrance seducing me like it was supposed to.

The scent is quite light, transparent almost. Amor Amor Tentation opens with the mandarin orange and a note that I believe may be plum. Sure it is rich and fruity, however it certainly isn't unusual.

The ivy, tiare and jasmine notes are hardly strong enough to make any real emphasis and the musk makes its appearance far too early in my opinion. Overall, this fragrance was quite linear, I didn't sense much of a change from the top notes to the drydown.

The only likable quality I found myself enjoying was the slightly smokey and musky drydown, however although the lasting strength is quite good the sillage is fairly poor meaning that I could hardly smell the drydown on my wrist at all, I really had to inhale deeply in order to smell anything.

Bleah. Another fruity/pink fragrance. It is so sweet that at first I didn't perceive the bitterness of tangerine. It doesn't surprise that after two years from its launch, mine is the first review. A useless product, too similar to many others.