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soyz1964 – :
This is the pure spicy scent of Christmas– picture a warm, burning log fire– with roses strewn around the room! Deep and creamy with great longevity. Perfect for a dark, cold winter night, basking in the glow of candles and this rich, classy scent for the holidays.
prienseIndids – :
i got a decant of this from surrender to chance. they had 2 options, but i’m not sure which one i bought! they had the extrait and a more modern version, which now isn’t on the site so i can’t confirm, but i think it’s this one? it’s more rose heavy than the original seems to be from the description, so i hope i’m safe writing this here.
i smell rose and subtle cinnamon with musks and soft resins. it’s been fairly linear for awhile. this is very pretty and opulent and wraps you in it’s warmth. it’s voluptuous and a beautiful scent. i think i may need more than just my sample <3
kiberpank – :
I adore the original vintage masterpiece Parfum Sacre while I greatly dislike the ‘Intense’ edition. This newer edition is the eau de toilette form of the eau de parfum; as such much softer, delicate but potent. This is a beautiful floral Oriental spicy with myrrh, frankincense and exotic spices from the East. This is totally unisex on it’s own but this edition is feminine when compared to the more masculine ‘Intense’ and orignal parfum. A mature gentleman or lady can spray this cologne on a chilly winter evening and warm up with a blend of cinnamon, rose, and musk.
Parfum Sacre is a Christmas night fragrance. Like Caron’s Nuit de Noel, this perfume has the same sort of religious spiritual air, with a touch of the Near East Israeli Jerusalem vibe. This is a beautiful aromatic incense based perfume, smelling of floral incense and suggestive of either Jewish or Muslim incense. This can’t really be compared to other fragrances but shares some things in common with Middle Eastern indie designer perfumes (i.e. Al Rehab) and has a spicier kick than something like Aramis Calligraphy Rose or Jovan Secret Amber. If you’re into spices in your fragrance, this is such a spice bomb.
Opens with spices from the get-go. This is a spiced up cinnamon and black pepper. Not gourmand. Dry, not sweet, dark cinnamon and quite assertive in it’s aroma. The scent lingers for a while before softening into rose. The single floral note gives this scent the feel of a rose based incense from Turkey. This is a smoky rose, a rose that you smell in a church or mosque. The scent of the rose here is mysterious and complex. I don’t get any other floral notes. The original had jasmine in it but here the rose is allowed to bloom and warm up with incense. This is a beautiful absolutely beautiful rose perfume, though a much more mystic rose than your typical sweet powdery or garden rose.
The dry notes appear to be resins and incense. The myrrh and frankincense recall the Three Wise Men gifts to baby Jesus as I was able to get from Nuit de Noel. The myrrh in this one however is mixed up with leather and musk. The musk is soft and feels like a glove. Quite a wearable musk and warm, wintery, like putting on a winter coat and with the incense all around, it has a kind of Russian winter vibe. Smells of ushankas (Russian fur cap) and big coats, gloves, and leather boots which are worn to walk through snow. This is a warm wintery Christmas perfume and can even be worn with (as in layered with) Nuit de Noel. The notes match up. This is a fine fragrance mist and though not a dense sillage, it has a soapy and very lovely soft quality that is so lovely and so easy to wear – even to bed.
So much love for Sacred Perfume!
Merry Christmas
trolik66 – :
Opening smells like soft leather with cinnamon, but I believe I am really sniffing some musk and spices.
After the initial opening it turns to powder, leather and violets on me. The rose or pepper notes are hidden, but I suspect they are just well blended into the fragrance.
Four hours into this scent and I smell like dusty violets. It is nice, pleasant and safe, but I do not think I will replace my 2 ml sample. This is my second wearing.
The sillage is soft to moderate. The longevity is just okay at six hours or so then it is a skin scent. It did last longer, but close to skin and there 10 hours and still going strong.
sappoibia – :
Peppery, crimson rose. The new version is still good, perhaps a little lighter and thinner compared to the vintage version. A rose lover’s must-try.
Andpei – :
Lovely. I wish it was alittle more balsamic like coco by chanel but still lovely. Cinnamon,rose,smoky,musky,myrhh
shnur0ck – :
Recently I had been wearing the original vntage Parfum Sacre in the gold bottle. In the past I have tried the newer version in the peppercorm bottle, which I found to be more powdery and oddly older-smelling, although newer. I decided to blind buy this latest version because I didn’t want to gamble on another vintage bottle. There are very few reviews of this online… most are for the peppercorm bottle version or the ‘intense’ version (which I also tried at some point and didn’t like enough to buy). I am happy to report that this newest version is the closest to the original imo. The opening is identical – a bit loud, a bit spicy – it then morphs into a very Caron smelling fragrance, even more so than the original, which I found extraordinary… I felt like I was smelling vintage En Avion, but only for about 30 minutes, it then settles down into a linear but mutlifaceted fragrance that I recognise as Parfum Sacre – sometimes it smells a bit soapy rose, sometimes a bit spicy, sometimes powdery and always balsamic. Wondeful. It’s quiet on my skin aside from the opening, but so was the original. There is an aura of the fragrance around the wearer, but not a strong sillage. I love it and am so happy Caron are producing it. I ordered straight from their website and it came beautifully boxed along with some samples.
вася123456789 – :
The difference between the original Parfum Sacre and Parfum Sacre (2013)is, to me, this: this new version is much more “wearable” and pretty, for my taste.
I found the original version much more pepper and incense than I could endure. In this newer version I get a lot more plush Rose, a nice sprinkling of pepper and delicious creamy Myrrh.
On my skin both sillage and longevity are excellent.
I find the new heavy, rectangular bottle very elegant. Parfum Sacre (2013) is certainly worthy to wear its’ wonderful and fitting name.
ArmenBalu – :
I went on line to buy some of this, and Caron seems to have disappeared with “out of stock” all over. Where is it? What is going on?
maxvell_ru – :
On me this smells like peppery civet. There’s an overwhelmingly animalic smell that makes it a scrubber on me.
I’ve never smelled the original, so I can’t compare, but on its own, this doesn’t smell anything like the list of notes would suggest it should.
I get urine, pepper and the tiniest hint of myrrh. This went on for about 2 hours and I couldn’t take the smell any more so I scrubbed.
I should try to find some of the original because it seems to be well loved.
IonillUtido – :
Parfum Sacre was one of my favourites for many years, the peppered rose and incense combined to make zen in a bottle for me. Unfortunately most of the grand classics in Caron have been pretty badly reformulated, and the current Parfum Sacre in the rectangular bottle smells very far from the original vision.
I assume some myrrh is still there since it smells very much like face powder, but I cannot discern the rose or pepper anymore. It is also extremely weak, much more so than most reformulations. Pretty good longevity, but the drydown, again, is far from the original and smells like a vanilla musk. It’s actually quite a nice vanilla musk, but it’s not Parfum Sacre.
Caron disappoints yet again. Some time ago they were awarded with the recognition of Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant in France (along with Guerlain and Molinard), anyone smelling Caron’s perfumes these days would surely consider stripping them of that title.