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shulz1978 – :
The amaretto is the first note I detect but it quickly shifts into brown sugar, cherry goodness! It is warm but not syrupy. Sweet and grounded, with the bite of pepper and woods.
It reminds me of something but I can’t figure it out – a dessert, a drink… something specific and if it comes to me, I will add it.
This is beautiful, complex, deep and delicious!
Update: I’ve got it – it’s a drink. A hot alcoholic beverage in Switzerland called Kafi Lutz. It’s a very light-brewed coffee, the consistency of tea, with sugar and fruit schnapps. Many times, it’s made with cherry liquor. That is what this reminds me of and I love it.
djkeeper91 – :
Not a day passes that I do not think of all the perfumes I threw away or, in better cases, I gifted to friends on impulse, because I did not like them anymore, many of which are now for me difficult (if not hard or impossible) to find.
I learned from my mistakes even if for some it is too late now.
Gloria (and many others) i miss you!
I have only a faint memory of your sweetness, I only know that you smelled good.
vinifrag – :
Cacharel makes some amazing scents. I had the vintage Eden, which always drew me to it wearing it almost every single day. I have Noa, which I haven’t used much, just waiting for the right season, I bought Gloria during my holiday in Europe, it was summer at the time, this smelt sickly sweet at the time. I brang it back in my luggage tucked away, it’s winter now & I LOVE THIS 🙂
The juice is addicting, warm sweet & in a way delicious. My boyfriend loves it on me too.
Cacharel in my honest opinion makes some unique but different perfumes❤️
Your nose will love every single one. Mine has so far 😉
Longevity: 6 hours.
Matvei – :
After finally testing Gloria thoroughly, I’m going to have to join the chorus on this one: I also think it’s a terrible shame it was discontinued, and I can’t for the life of me imagine why they did that. It’s a lovely scent, and as I recall it was popular enough at the time – and that’s confirmed by the amount of mourning it gets here on Fragrantica.
When we were at university my close friend used to wear this, which gives it a nostalgic glow for me, but I’m sure I would appreciate it on its own as well. The cherry note is very well done here, and it goes together wonderfully with the nice amaretto note, softened by the base of vanilla, tonka and roses. It’s the kind of gourmand that’s rich and delicious enough to really make your day, especially in the cold seasons, without going far enough with the sweetness or the edible factor to make you feel conspicuous wearing it (at least if you don’t overspray).
As others have mentioned, there unfortunately doesn’t seem to be anything quite like Gloria widely available today. I tested and liked Eau Jeune’s Orientale a few weeks ago, and there is some similarity, but it lacks the balance of this one, it’s more straightforwardly sweet and in your face, maybe because it doesn’t have the cherry note that’s the corner stone of this gorgeous creation. So I guess I’ll just have to make my treasured decant of the real thing last…
prima1223 – :
Last week I found a vintage Gloria in perfect condition. It soooo lovely. Cherry, Amaretto, Almond, Vanilla and a hint of musk in background. Still very longlived and with a goood sillage. Sometimes I do find treasures and Gloria is maybe the greatest of them. Halleluleja-moment.
MrPrivatman – :
Since my last review a couple of years back, I can say this:
Nothing (not even Mon Guerlain which I currently have) holds a candle to Gloria except for Perfume Parlour’s Gloriaas (how imaginative?!). If you’re in the UK, you’ll be fortunate enough to indulge yourself in their spray but us outsiders must settle for the perfume oil.
Cherry-amaretto-almond-pencil shaving-vanillary goodness.
Oh how I wish the real thing would return to the shelves!!!
buren 4 – :
This one is a little “off-base” and unusual– just like the song. The amaretto note stands out from the other notes, and makes it kind of boozy and different. Great winter/autumn scent generating a sweet warmth. A super addition to your cold weather collection.
RomanFisher – :
So I received a mini of this 2 days ago.
This morning (after years of curiosity about this one), I gave it a trial run as my scent of the day.
2 Hours later and I have just bought a 100ml from ebay. It was a true “shut up and take my money” moment. I just had to have the biggest bottle I could find. All the people desperately trying to find a dupe – STOP. Just pay what you need to pay and buy it. There is nothing like this treasure. I LOVE it.
vorotakazan – :
Love this gem and found a place to buy it in Ontario: Enchante online 😉 I wear this on days where I feel particularly happy. Not sure why it was discontinued, it’s so lovely! It holds a very special place in my vast perfume collection, believe me.
accomfops – :
As sannuli78 said! Give the new mon guerlain a chance if you miss this one!
21vovchik21 – :
Gloria has been my absolute favorite since it was created 2002 and after it was discounted I haven’t found anything as fantastic as Gloria. Now I have found a new gem,Guerlains Mon. If you like Gloria you should try this one. It’s also oriental woody and very beautiful perfume.
oksi10lompa – :
Have anyone tried to mix Cartier’s Baiser du Dragon with Guerlain’s Mon petite robe to achieve the Gloria smell? I wonder if their mix could replace it.
demaTeams42 – :
I have not had the pleasure of trying the original 🙁
However, I have tried Perfume Parlour’s dupe oil – which is very nice, and pretty similar so they say.
And if you like that, would may also like Nabeel’s ‘Illusion’ oil, as it has the same warm vibe, perhaps a little more resinous and gooey 🙂
katrina460 – :
Why take out this perfume? It was truly a gem, like a precious princess that never really got to meet the world proper!! Im sure it would sell very good still cause it is a unique, smell so rich and creamy soft spicy exotic. Feels like they put “baby in the corner” instead of letting Her flow on the dancefloor with Patrick Swayze..
Глазик – :
I have a bottle in my collection but I’m not using it anymore, it reminds me of the old times. Nevertheless Gloria is a beautiful bourbon cherry perfume, but not for little girls! It’s very unique and there’s nothing similar to it!
winni puh – :
Finding this little gem was a real challenge for me and finally it’s here,as our wedding anniversary gift from my life’s true love,I can’t explain how much excited I am..
Initial spritz is bitter and sharp,it’s like a chemical blast of amber,cherry and boozy notes but let it settle down and unfold it’s notes,except first minute this is exactly what I’ve imagined
Cacharel Gloria is a combination of cherry and almondy amaretto in a sweet,warm base of vanilla,Tonka and amber..it’s very powdery in a unique way,it’s bitter-sweet and really sexy..it’s delicious but not in a childish cherry cake way,and it has an attractive spicy,woody undertone beneath it’s soft sweet base that really appeals to me
I can see why it’s compared to cartier dragon,they don’t smell the same,Gloria is waaay less woody,less boozy and also is the cherryish version of Dragon,and it’s much more charming and more feminine
Though cherry is mentioned as a base note,I smell it from the initial wiff but it calms down,almost fades away as it dries down. What lasts with me for hours is a soft powdery blend of vanilla, tonka,almond and a whisper of flowers, it’s drydown is my favorite part and it’s not a real oriental woody to my nose since it’s not that woody(fortunately)
I really try hard to not be a discontinue hype but this one is really amazing,it’s a combination of my beloved notes,a true unique feminine scent, a stand out fragrance without being offensive,with great Longevity(sillage is moderate on me),it’s a shame I can’t use it freely because I’m already afraid of running out of it
Cacharel is one of my favorite brands and I really wish that they bring this baby back..I’m sure there is a place in this huge world of
perfumes for this little gem
❤❤❤❤
P.s:
If you love fragrances with powdery almond and vanilla(comes to my nose as heliotrope) cherry,woods and pepper,this is the only choice that comes to my mind..there is no dupe as far as I know..nearest option is guerlain La petit robe noir edp,which has lots of cherry and vanilla and some almond and liquorice,but it’s too much cherry dominant,medicinal in opening and too plain sweet in Drydown and there is no spicy,woodsy undertone,but it can fulfill some of gloria’s need and is better than nothing.you also can try layering it with different perfumes
Edit:
Try layering guerlain La petit robe noir edp with mon guerlain,first time I did so Gloria was the first thing that came to my mind,first spray mon guerlain and give it some time to settle down, then apply la petit robe noir edp in smaller amount.Mon guerlain’s drydown reminds me gloria’s drydown
oum219Diobtetty – :
my favourite perfume!
gutara – :
Another great gem that has been discontinued. I understand the need of the brands to be new and fresh and all that jazz but to come out with a dozen of Amor Amor flankers and to stop making this one at the same time?? Why?? Having said that, my bottle is around 13 years old, I use it rarely and religiousely. An amazing blend of cherry, almond and amaretto with wooden accords. I feel cherry through all time I wear this fragrance. It is not overpowering but it has a character. Not gourmand, super wearable on multiple occasions. Pure cherry-amaretto perfection.
Infeneapy – :
Gloria must be my fave of all time… my sister had it as a teenager and I always sprayed some on a cotton pad and couldn’t stop smelling it… I think it’s the perfume that gave me my interest in fragrances until today… a quite fun story :).
I can’t believe they chose to discontinue it. I’d buy 3 bottles of it. Gloria is so captivating. I think it is still my prototype when shopping for perfumes. I found ‘Sexy Darling’ by Kylie Minouge and since I’m not sure how Gloria really used to smell except *great*, I find it to be an okay replacer.
I really loved the advertise and the bottle too, the pearl-ish and the colours, It really spoke to me. Its really went well with the fragrance, which has a very balanced character, not too nutty, sweet, woody or smokey. It really is that kind that mix with my chem awesomelly. It would still, 14 years later, be my signature perfume.
boriskkk – :
Oh man. Smells nostalgic. In fact, it smells like the women’s changing room of the indoor water park I used to visit with my family as a kid – wet wooden benches, a hot waft of some aromatic oil seeping out from under the sauna door, various women’s perfumes of the 90’s, hair spray, the heat of the blowdryers, a faint note of chlorinated water still lingering. Would I walk around smelling like this? Maybe… we shall see…
мобильный склад – :
Mmmm mmmmm good. What is this enchanting aroma and why didn’t I discover it sooner? This is an amber gourmand fragrance. It’s got a lot of amber so you have to really enjoy amber in fragrance. I can smell at different times each of the notes but some stand out more than others: amaretto, hibiscus, rose, almond, vanilla and styrax. This smells aromatic too, more like those fragrances that are strong because they lack the typical fruity floral scents in most women’s perfumes. Easily unisex, with a cool elegance and very summery, very nocturnal. It smells rich, decadent and just the tiniest bit sweet. Not bad and no one I know among my friends wears this so I’m the only one smelling of Gloria. Its also very sexy. I get compliments by guys at my Wall Street Rotary club calling it sexy. Dont know if it’s the amaretto! BTW I also equate this fragrance with 80’s night club dancing. The song Gloria by Laura Branigan comes to mind. Love it. Smells great.
oyn260InsuffBooni – :
Really the fragrance lives up to the meaning of the name of sports, is pure glory to feel that it can transmit from start to finish, in a linear fashion, imposing, grand and full-bodied. Almost impossible not to recognize the glory of this fragrance, yet extremely feminine, Amaretto can take a serious tone to it that leaves her with an air of innocence, but at the same time kind of dark, that’s very interesting. A fragrance so new, 2002, to be discontinued as quickly with excellent quality you have, this is unfortunate. Let the facts, its output is pure Amaretto being ingested in an environment where there is fresh roses and some Hibiscus fallen to the floor in a profundidos exhale Amber heated and dense ranging improving every minute; Here it is quite opulent, must be due to the Amaretto giving a heated in Roses petals and makes very dense thing. Over, she gives a mature becoming thicker, appearing floral nuances which are then humiliated by the presence of too much pepper general orientalizando fragrance and allowing its projection is intergalactic, absurdly beautiful the “dry down” Gloria, very much. In the base notes, the fragrance becomes very spicy with aromatic benzoin, with kilos of cherries in submerged tails highly sweetest ice cream cover and poignant, peeled and fresh almonds, zest of Cedar burning aromatizando the background, over the licorosidade Amaretto sewing masterfully late Gloria Cacharel. Definitely a licorosa fragrance where Cherry and Almond Amaretto assist him next to the protagonist, great performances they do together. Fixed and projects an impressive intensity. Highly recommended and indispensable to those who heroically manage to find one to call “my”!
Word of the Day: Christmas… (day 32)
SmOOvE178 – :
great amaretto, leading to cherry and almond .elegant. special. with its own identity, different from the ordinary fashionable perfumes
filka_123 – :
I discovered Gloria when shopping for fragrance for my mother’s birthday (she is a one-bottle-at-a-time gal). I remember Gloria being heavenly…totally unique and just so desirable. It was also one of the very few Cacharel fragrances that gets along with my chemistry and I was devastated to find that it had been discontinued. Huh?! So I had to enjoy Gloria vicariously through my mother as she worked her way through the bottle.
Gloria was released with a posse of gal pals (lotion, spray and wash?) who, like real friends, had notes in common and a few that set them apart. Gloria behaved differently depending on the friend she was layered with but in my honest opinion was a stand-out talent of her own.
I’ve no idea why Cacharel would pull Gloria from the shelf and could only assume that she wasn’t selling. Fragrantica feedback would suggest otherwise. Paris Hilton’s CanCan is a little reminiscent of Gloria but in more of a ‘little cousin’ kind of way. Siiiiiiigh.
Please, Cacharel, bring back Gloria. She might have been a little nutty, some would call her fruity, but she was a lot of fun to be around.
G-L-O-R-I-A Glooooooooooriiiiaaaaaa!
diablo6 – :
A cherry almondy scented tobacco juice with hints of hibiscus. I cannot smell any hint of “Amaretto”.Longlasting and perfectly unisex, I do not find it to be a gourmand but just fruity and woody. I find it to be the perfect more feminine leaning counterpart of Le Baiser du Dragon, which I prefer for the uniqueness.This latter yes, it does have a very strong Amaretto note…
atmo – :
Gloria is still alive within SDV of Guerlain! Don’t be like but in my skin, and with one on each wrist, the differences are minimal! It has no sense I suppose, may be mere perception but find it me incredibly similar…
Three hours after differences:
glory has somewhat less intensity (but can be by the years that you have).
Gloria pulls more red fruit and SDV more vanilla. Liquorice note is where the greatest difference noto, but minimally.
The differences in my skin are minimal, so much for my like for people in my environment.
Gloria sigue vivo dentro de SDV de Guerlain !!!
No se como pero en mi piel , y con uno en cada muñeca, las diferencias son mínimas ! No tiene sentido supongo , puede ser mera percepción pero me resulta increíblemente parecido …
Tres horas después DIFERENCIAS :
Gloria tiene algo menos de intensidad ( pero puede ser por los años que tiene ) .
Gloria tira mas a fruto rojo y SDV mas a vainilla .
En la nota licorosa es donde mayor diferencia noto, pero mínimamente .
Las diferencias en mi piel son mínimas , tanto para mi como para las personas de mi entorno .
trencho – :
A friend of mine brought home a small glass bottle of this EDP from France when it had just been released.
It was an intense love affair with me spritzing away and suffocating almost everyone I met. It ended in high drama when I dropped the bottle and it broke! I quickly bought a full bottle EDT (poor student) but it never could compare to the EDP version.
If you spritz a tiny tiiiiny amount it is the sweetest most darling scent ever. I’m sure Cacharel will bring this baby back! : )
Nrikesss – :
Gloria – Cacharel: saída bem docinha num fundo licoroso.
Sinto licor de cereja envolto em uma baunilha adulta.
Na evolução percebe-se amêndoas doces, isso faz lembrar um pouco o Cinéma.
Usando, me fez lembrar de um chá que uma pessoa do trabalho tomava p/ emagrecer há alguns anos, não era chá de carqueja, chá vermelho, nenhum desses, era um chá c/ cheiro que eu gostava, cheiro bom, o cheiro do Gloria me remete a esse chá que tinha um líquido avermelhado/vinho, agora não lembro o nome do negócio…rs, se não lembrar e perguntarei p/ pessoa e volto p/ dizer o nome da planta depois.
Sim, um bom perfume, mas acho que a descontinuação dele trouxe uma certa hipervalorização, porque já li que ele é único, insubstituível, etc, mas não o considerei nada disso. Sem razão p/ euforias…rs, apenas um bom perfume, nada excepcional p/ meu nariz.
Aliás, falando sinceramente, prefiro meu Cinéma.
Andrey60970 – :
I bought a bottle of this from boots for about £14 in 2006 when my son was a baby and dident really appreciate how great it was until I tried to buy more recently only to find its skyrocketed! my husband used to love this on me, and I was very fond of its sweet cherry almondness. you can buy copies from perfume parlour which I am going to do at some point, hopefully it will not be a disappointment because they do some very good desighner copies for very cheap
ZaFF – :
I can’t use this perfume without the Laura Branigan song “Gloria” running through my head (and I wasn’t even alive when it was made! it’s that catchy..) anyway..
I was pretty turned off by the opening on this one (I tend to judge fragrnces too quickly). The opening is very sharp and stereotypically “Bank of England”-ish. Smells very dated and musty, typical of a vintage frag.
However, it has grown on me a LOT since I’ve been using it enough to enjoy the drydown. Sweet dark cherries and soft vanilla. I like that it’s gourmand, but doesn’t exactly smell like a literal food – more of a perfumed artistic interpretation of sweets and not actual sweets. It’s gorgeous and delectable, seriously. Ordered a full bottle even with the ridiculous prices on ebay and couldn’t be happier. They need to bring this one back.. hard to believe loulou and amor amor have stood the test of time and this one hasn’t. I wonder if the marketing concept of “use all the products together for the correct smell” wasn’t a mistake?
Also, this is VERY similar to guerlain’s Spiriteuse Double Vanille. Gloria has a little more cherry, but the two could be dupes for each other.
Oh well. Speaking of dupes, I also ordered some of Perfume Parlour’s “Gloriaas” dupe so I’ll update this when I’m able to compare the two. I have high hopes for that one as well 😉
UPDATE- Perfume Parlour’s “Gloriaas” dupe is actually very good, I’m happy with it and think it smells great! Gonna use it for layering 🙂 Unfortunately the other 3 dupes I ordered (Midnight Poison, Tendre Poison and Tobacco Vanille) were all terrible, especially the MP lol. FYI, these were the oil versions.
cpq934Unlogrere – :
A lovely and original scent…so differnt from many others that in some way resemble other frgrances.
gosolo – :
i just tried Diptique “eau duelle” and it reminded me so much of this! i think it is worth a try if you would like a similar scent!
TezSerapSuSun – :
One of the nicest, yummiest gourmands I’ve ever smelled.
When I was a kid, my mom would make a homemade cherry dessert topping for special occasions that smelled like Gloria. She’d take a jar of maraschino cherries and dump it in a pan, add almond extract, misc spices, a healthy pour of amaretto, water and a packet of gelatin. After reducing in the pan, this mixture formed a sort of intensely sweet cherry-vanilla-almond syrup that was served while it was still warm over vanilla ice cream sprinkled with toasted almonds.
Gloria is a comforting, warm, sweet and boozy cherry almond scent. It is not particularly powdery (in case you are worried about that) and smells very literally edible to my nose.
Its discontinued and hard to find these days, very worth it IMO. Lovely!
toff35 – :
I noticed this when it [for a brief time] showed that it ‘smells like’ one of my very favorites, Xerjoff Dama Bianca. I went to my standby, the ebay, looking for a mini EDT or sample to try. The least expensive item I found was a sample set with the EDT, body mist, bath oil, and lotion. I was uninterested in the other items at the time, but this was the least expensive option, so I figured I would get the set and give away everything else.
So I get the set, and it says that each one brings out a different note. I find this interesting. I decide to try them each seperately, then all of them together, because this ‘different note but similar’ concept is interesting to me. So here comes a long review, will update as I go along.
BODY MIST – This one is supposed to bring out the ‘green’ part. I really like the body mist. It smells spicy and sweet at the same time. The spice is more of an actual cooking spice smell, as opposed to a ‘perfumey spice’. I would love to wear this by itself if it had better lasting power. It reminds me of the discontinued Ralph Lauren Hot, but sweeter and easier to wear.
EDT – ‘Oriental accord’. Okay, this completely reminds me of Guerlain SDV. I dunno which one came first but one of them is a ripoff LOL. It smells like powdery vanilla and rum. Nice and all but my least favorite so far.
BATH OIL – To use this, I poured some of it in with my bath. This one says it brings out the ‘cereal’ note. Sounded interesting. I tried it and have no idea what they are talking about. However, I LOVE the way this smells. This is where I smell the cherries. It reminds me of like, dark cherries and vanilla. I wish THIS was a perfume.
BODY LOTION – I put this on after my shower. I use unscented, organic body wash, for reference. I put this on my arms, and at first it was really promising. It smelled like With Love by Hilary Duff at first. This is supposed to bring out the woodsy accord, and I totally get that. After a couple minutes, the Hilary Duff thing goes out the window and it just smells like sandalwood. Like the EDT, I find this nice enough but not the biggest fan.
The final test, I tried them all together today. I took a bath with the bath oil, then put on the lotion, then sprayed on the body spray, then put the EDT on top. I am not enjoying the total combination. I am getting a LOT of sandalwood and powder. A very small amount of cherry is making it kind of sweet, but overall it is smelling pretty mature. It is like the lotion is taking over everything, very disappointing. For me personally, I think I still might get a bottle of the bath oil, that was lovely.
IIIMaNIII – :
I recently purchased a 30ml sample from Elena of Perfume Shrine (thank you, E!). Based on the reviews here, I was expecting cherries, Amaretto and vanilla. I was disappointed.
BUT THEN what I got instead was the most Glorious (sorry) cherry pipe tobacco scent – rich, mesmerizing and very long-lasting. This is how I’d hoped Tobacco Vanille would smell (but didn’t!).
I can’t stop wearing it and I’d love some more but it’s a bit too pricey, so a huge Thank You goes out to @madcowjo for telling us about the Perfume Parlour (UK). I’ve just taken delivery of their copycat “Gloriaas” and it’s perfect!
Exspawn – :
Le Baiser Du Dragon meets Cinéma, for me. Great!
Pira – :
Açıkçası Cacharel Gloria’yı biraz L’Occitane Eau de Bavx’a benzettim. Karakterleri çok yakın, Bavx’dan daha kalıcı ve bana göre Gloria kesinlikle bir erkek parfümü olmaya aday. Cacharel’in bu parfümü piyasadan çekmesine hiç şaşırmadım çünkü çoğu bayan bunu üzerine sıkmak istemeyecektir.
Benim çok sevdiğim bir koku ama dediğim gibi; meyveli, tatlı ve sonu ahşabımsı/tutkalımsı bir koku ile bittiğinden bayanlar için çok cazip olmadığını düşünüyorum. Keşke Cacharel bu kokunun formülasyonunda ufak değişiklikler yapıp erkek parfümü olarak piyasaya sürseydi.
ozzyw11 – :
❀ Another faithfull lover of Gloria!
At first I strongly Amaretto -which I personally love- then the scent develops in luscious cherries and creamy almonds! It sets on my skin with an ambery vanilla warmth…ahh…Hope it will be released again one day!
incokeererlop – :
Although it’s been years and years since I’ve smelled Gloria, inexplicably my nose became nostalgic for it today. Maybe I’m craving Amaretto? I LOVEed this fragrance…it was, by far, my favorite Cacharel. Gloria inexplicably wasn’t around very long…3-4 years? Yet Anais Anais (in its current tragic incarnation) still graces the shelves of every Target and TJ Maxx in the Western Hemisphere, and Amor Amor likely has the most flankers of any fragrance in the world…
I would think that with the popularity of La Petite Robe Noire and Burberry Brit (and so many other woody-gourmand-chypres) there would certainly be a market for Gloria. I peeked at Cacharel’s webstie and was stunned to see that Loulou, Promesse, Scarlett and Eden are still in production. I thought that Loulou was long, long gone, and that the others came and went as quickly as Gloria! I never even heard of Catch Me. The bottle is ADORABLE! I’d love to try the fragrance.
It is a terrible shame that L’Oreal’s greed squashed yet another unique, special company.
fmn239Unlogrere – :
I want to know one thing and one thing only about this scent.
Why has it been discontinued by Cacharel?
I bought this when it first came out and the idea was you had the perfume PLUS the body spray (pictured on the right) that went with it. The body spray came in a bigger bottle, shaded jade, with the same coloured plastic top on it.
The body spray had a slightly different aroma than the perfume which was the whole point, as they were designed to compliment one another. Believe me, the effect was awesome and the boyfriend I was going out with at the time couldn’t get enough of it (on me obviously)!
I get so upset whenever a unique scent like this is discontinued. I have seen it on Ebay but NEVER the two together. You can’t have one without the other, it doesn’t work the same.
I do think that perfumes associated with celebs (do you REALLY think Beyonce would choose to wear Heat..no, neither do I) are popular due to the celeb rather than the scent they are associated with…and that’s why they sell. I would love it if someone famous put their name to a fragrance that’s actually more classier than they are, then it wouldn’t be discontinued as sales would go through the roof.
Such a shame!
кэти91 – :
Apologies if I have posted this before but if any of you are missing Gloria and unwilling to opay silly prices on eBay DO try Perfume Parlour UK’s “Gloriaas” oil(it used to be called Glorify). It is spookily like the original and ridiculously cheap. I am now on my fourth bottle and get compliments on it every time I wear it. It lasts ages as well. Just check out the reviews on their website! I really don’t think you will be disappointed. I am in no way affiliated to Perfume Parlour by the way, just SO happy that they do a smellalike for this beautiful sadly discontinued perfume.
Ricco – :
this perfume is pure heaven. I can’t believe is discontinued and I fear to use the bottles I have left :'(
you can find it form time to time on sale on ebay for stellar prices, thanks god I still have a milk bottle, a bath oil bottle and a 50 ml edp to use but what will I do when they will be finished?? AARRGGH!!
🙂
it is charming, enchanted, warm and spicy in a young but still mature way, can’t describe how magnificent is!!!
I would recommend an evening use but to be honest I use this perfume day&night as I can’t get enough. People loves it too 🙂 the package and the bottle are amazing as well!
potenciya – :
Cannot believe that Cacharel have discontinued this beautiful fragrance. Have not met a person who has dislike it whilst wearing it. Went to Boots the other day to test out their other fragrances, its a wonder that they haven’t gone bankrupt, they are truly awful. Would the powers that be at Cacharel at least think about re-releasing this truly magnificent fragrance. Please!!
Lexa48 – :
Gloria is DIVINE, for a special girl for a glorious woman, i think it’s a perfect fragrance, high quality, lovely.
10/10
karrudo007 – :
One caveat before I start my review: the sample of Gloria that I’m writing about is probably old and may have been stored around heat or light. I say this because the first 2 minutes after spraying this fragrance has a distinctly “old perfume” smell. It starts off sharp and kind of dated. I am not sure if this is an intentional part of the composition (maybe the amaretto note?) or if my sample isn’t completely fresh.
After this fades away, Gloria quickly mellows out into a soft, velvety fragrance. The syrupy sweetness of maraschino cherries is tempered out by vanilla, amber, and rose. It still retains a mildly boozy, leathery tone from the amaretto and almond accords. You don’t see too many compositions like this in perfumery, and I’m glad to get the opportunity to try it out. My sample suffers from very soft sillage and poor longevity, but I won’t completely blame this on the scent, as my sample may be less powerful due to its age.
One interesting marketing trick that Cacharel used on Gloria was to have all of the accessory products emphasize different aspects of the composition of the original fragrance. The Gloria body oil draws attention to a wheaty-cereal accord, and the body mist bumps up the green notes in the composition. The body lotion brings out woody notes, and the candle version turns up the volume on spiciness. I admire the thoughtfulness that went into this idea, and the fact that Cacharel trusts its client base to be able to appreciate a concept like this.
alupaciy – :
A truly glorios perfume.im amazed .got mine today.so similar to SDV.to creat this perfume 50 years ago is miraclulous.i love all the notes.its a perfume after my heart.will never bewithout.now i know why its so expensive and worth every penny.a true elixir wonderfull.its timeless.almond vanille so edible yet sophisticated.i,m buying another one.
els91 – :
Gloria was discontinued. It belongs to a different era. It was an era, not so far ago, when mainstream perfumes were still perfumes in themselves, not just water with some mix of flavours.
It was not love for me then, but it would be now after all these years of confusion.
There is a sort of coherence in these older scents as if they were made with a purpose or at least a clear idea in mind. Who knows I will think the same in ten years about nowadays designer scents?
I kept a few samples and they still smell fresh and delicious. The perfume itself is very strong, luscious and sweet without being candish. It’s made of different impressions and accords put together. The Woody part is a wonderful strong creamy luscious heavy but never harsh base for the rest of the simphony. It’s very down-to-earth and thick yet balanced.
Amaretto, White pepper and tonka are very dominant.
Gloria is one of those epithomes of feminity that were the trademark of those years.
Not an easy one to wear carefully, but one you could make friends in time and become fused w