Description
Pour L’Amour de L’Inde is a fragrance of a journey around dreamy India. Exotic nature, temples and gardens appear right in front of your eyes with just a sniff of this warm, exotic floral perfume. Temperamental Indian cardamom leads to the royal flower pair: jasmine and rose. The fragrance gets even more exotic as its composition develops; notes of one of the Indian trademarks takes place – sandal and its seductive companion vanilla. The bottle looks like a talisman, made of amber – colored glass of Gang river. Mysterious and funny stopper in three different colors reminds of a pestle of an exotic flower. It is available as eau de toilette with the matching body products. It was launched in 1996.
balchyk – :
I don’t care what the notes say, I can smell violets in the opening spritz.
As other reviewers have mentioned before me, this is an incredibly hard to define perfume.
It belches out a bouquet of flowers and spices, but then I can also detect a hairspray vibe, which for me, is an attractive feature of the notes. The hairspray type note, which probably comes from the spices, gives this gem a freshness, for without it, I suspect that this could be a little overwhelming.
L’Amour de L’Inde is an orchestra of beautiful flowers, jasmine being prominent in the heart with a touch of rose to complement it. This is the one bouquet in the florist shop, which compels you to sniff it above all the other flowers and it takes your olfactory senses on a beautiful floral journey, changing from flower to spice, to fresh to flower and then to spice again.
As a perfume weighted by the florals, one would think that this was a summer fragrance, but I think it can be worn all year round. The balance of heavy spices and floral accords are just perfect, everything balances out magnificently well.
This is a rare and discontinued fragrance, I was lucky to get a bottle on ‘the bay’. If you can get hold of it, I highly recommend this perfume.
soortlorneync – :
This one is too wonderfully and tricky crafted to describe in a way you can understand, how it smells.
It is like triple spiced, – from cardamom, (0,1% absolu of cardamom oil) from spicy tagetes (in a way carnation can be spicy) and – from pepper. Plus, it has 0,1% absolu of Indian jasmine. Which makes it smell more deeply aromatic and dry-spicy, than Kenzo Elephant, for example. It is like loud and multicoloured market in Marrakesh, full of hanged dried fruits, long rows of spices and exotic women in exotic dresses. Very good base, mainly from sandalwood.Hard to find, but well worth it, it is better, than majority of niche fragrances with spices and jasmine, that I have tried.
Olegbaitsaev – :
Strangely, it reminds me very much of my once and no-longer absolute favourite “Kashaya” by Kenzo. It is lovely in the first ten to twenty mins – definitely oriental and flowery – but on my skin the scent vanishes within around one hour…
vjrheiby – :
Reminds me very much of my favorite, Billet Doux, from Fragonard but even warmer.
ahiyamaloek – :
very different from what i normally wear. strong spice at first blast, then soft peppery warmth. this blend is lovely and wraps you in jasmine spice heaven. the dry down is soft vanilla heat. it just simmers there for hours. really lovely.
ion – :
Pepper and Cardomom are very dominant here, and that makes this scent really oriental and spicy without any sweet or too heavy or too flowery notes. After a while the jasmine is getting stronger, but never too sweet, because of that pepper/cardamom company. Really a great scent! I can’t find any roses in here (but that’s just my skin, I guess) and I don’t miss them. The dry-down is very earthy, authentic, pure. Although the eau de toilette itself doesn’t smell like that at all, the feeling it creates reminds me very much of the feeling that Yves Rochers Nature Millenaire evokes. Two scents I really miss…
Vatson – :
this is a pure paraphernalia of spices, mostly cardamom. The roses are almost absent but the tagetus is screeching. I am jealous of those who can smell any roses, wish I could, might be that i liked this fume still?
I must have been a bug in past life. And I know that cause the smell of Tagetus repells me (they plant in gardens so as to keep out bugs)
kareprost – :
This scent reminded me very much of “Shafali” by Yves Rocher. Since it’s the same house and “Shafali” is discontinued, I wondered if it is not simply the same scent? 🙂
neenlymidepet – :
Never tried this one just before a few days ago.
I could not stop sniffing it 🙂
It is so rich and sensual. It is rather soft and flowery, very good balanced. Actually, hard to describe how exactly, but it reminds me a lot about Vie Privée Yves Rocher. Lasting power is very good. I could smell it´s aroma whole day. Could be used as a romantic or everyday parfume.
vhv851elipseskism – :
Pour L’Amour de L’Inde goes in a similar direction of Chopard Casmir and Hanae Mori EDP. Thinking of those two actually helps me describing this one, a bit.
Pour L’Amour de L’Inde starts quite sweet. The jasmine is lovely, enchanting, accompanied by a velvet rose spiced up with cardamon. The spices are not overwhelming and barely there. As the fragrance develops, you get some lovely woody notes and a sweet, delicate vanilla base. This is not a fresh bouquet of garden flowers, neither is it a strong, oriental experience. Pour l’Amour is not something I would have associated with India in any way. It is quite sentimental, like Régis Wargnier’s film Indochine, but it is more of a “Travelling through world by looking at photos in an album” kind of scent.
Nevertheless, I still quite like it! I have a sweet tooth, and this is something Id like to wear on lazy mornings (which I dont have at the moment, but if I did, that’s what I would be wearing:))There are no fireeworks here, but it is very confortable, warm, elegant, quiet. Makes you feel at ease. Maybe not a must have, lovely enough if that’s the type of fragrance you are loking for.
dodeisonsiste – :
An interesting perfume. It has very roses and pepper, so, it reminds me “Art of Venice” (Monika Klink).
Segreysamedoman – :
This is an oriental in pure character as they were meant to be! I would categorize not as an oriental flower but PURE oriental. It does not take the easy way out like, put some vanilla in it and it would be just fine, noooo, this one is thought about carefully! It is saying, you want to be in India and feel right at home…? Wear this!
Good luck!
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vitaly5 – :
The bottle is beautiful, the fragrance itself is not my kind of scent. I don’t like the tahetes here, they make it too spicy and too specific. But I think this scent will be good for oriental scents’ lovers.
Xeroxbtvqs – :
The best blind-buy in my “perfumista” career! I absolutely love it! The opening is spicey, but not peppery (although pepper is listed among the notes), then it quickly settles down to a very pleasant jasmine (not harsh and in-your-face as it sometimes happens with it) and rose (weird – when I read that there IS rose in it I could detect it – if I didn’t knew I’d never suggest it’s a rose note). But the drydown is like a dream…woodsy vanilla (not the sugary type, mind you!). And it lasts and lasts…about 7-8 hours on me! And this is EDT! I wish all edt’s would last that long…Now I’m going to chase down all Isabel Derroisne scents (sigh)Ah, and one more thing – this is the only frag in my collection that was approved also by my 16.y.o. daughter and 67 y.o. mother;)Must keep a sharp eye on this bottle (LOL)
Ruslan9 – :
It’s too pity, but it is not my scent, on me it opens with strange mix of fir tree with sausages. I will buy it only to complete my ID perfumes collection.
Daredevil7766 – :
Beautiful parfume!Sensual and mysterious,very popular in London this season, thanks Isabel Derroisne.Also we have body lotion,parfumed soap and bath gel.
ayoguykdu – :
Have had the body lotion in this since given as a gift Xmas 2007, can’t find anywhere selling lotion or the fragrance in this range.
Love this soft but noticably fresh unique fragrance with which you seldom pass someone in the street wearing!!, also it is gentle on my fragile sinuses!
Sue