Par Amour
Clarins Par Amour opens with pink pepper and black currant — a warm, spiced-fruity combination where the pepper's bite and the currant's tart sweetness create an energetic opening.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Vanilla60
- Amber55
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Black Currant
- Vanilla
- Cardamom
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readClarins Par Amour opens with pink pepper and black currant — a warm, spiced-fruity combination where the pepper's bite and the currant's tart sweetness create an energetic opening. The contrast between the two is the composition's most interesting moment.
Vanilla and cardamom form the heart: a warm, spiced-sweet accord that transitions the fruity opening into a genuinely oriental register. The cardamom adds aromatic complexity to the vanilla without pushing it into gourmand territory. The base of sandalwood, labdanum, benzoin, and amber closes on a warm, resinous dry-down with good staying power — labdanum adding a cistus note, benzoin providing warmth. Compact and well-resolved.
Scent twins
In this family
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