Parfum Sacre Eau de Parfum Intense

well...I have arrived. ♥️ I received this as a gift 15 years ago, sprayed and couldn’t understand Anything about it. It was a huge powerful powder soft cloud filled with unrecognized notes to my nose, just too much of everything. Today, I opened this. 1 spray. A gush of pure luxury enveloped me. There was soft sweet myrrh, a huge peppered sweet rose, fluffy powdery cinnamon, warm spices. It’s exquisite and regal.

I dont know how to say this other than to say it, but I love Parfum Sacre Intense. It is all that I like, white floral, spicy and smoky (something I have now discovered that I live) with no (at least to my nose) vanilla. Perfect. A keeper. I am so glad that I have a bottle of this and not just a sample.

What a grand perfume! Honestly I cannot remember original Parfum Sacre, if not vaguely. This new one is very intense and a little old style, but in a good way. Very warm, spicy but not pungent, it becomes quite round on my skin and stays forever! I can smell a faint whif on my wrist after 9 hours! Listed notes are stunning! I love cardamom, cinnamon and spices and myrrh! Anyway I don't smell all of them separately rather as a well blended mix. Only flowers are a little bit shaded by other notes. I probably wouldn't like to wear Parfum Sacre everyday as it is a complex, sophisticated, velvety and intense perfume that whispers quietness and luxe, not rushing in traffic! I suspect that non perfumistas may not tolerate it in workplaces. It's one of those scents you need time to enjoy and savoury like a good old red wine. Would you drink a top quality Merlot at coffee break from machines among people chattering about the most boring, redundant and banal things? Oh, well, nothing is forbidden ;-)

If you like Aedes de Venustas "Oeillet Bengale" spare your money and buy parfum sacrè intense. A dark peppery powdery rose. High class!

As a Perfum Sacré fan I always wondered what the Intense would be. Today I got hold of a sample - finally. If you are a Caron fan and in particular of their florals, you should really hunt down the Intense. I find it heavier on the rose and really tamed down on the myrrh. The Caron floral signature shines through (something which is lacking in the "usual" version). I unfortunatly am a Caron fan, but only on their non-florals, which I find oustanding. I love Parfum Sacré for it's dryness, the heavy myrrh and the pronounced pepper. It is one of my favourites, it has a lot of personality and edge. Chic, french, mature, perfumery and dry like the desert. Intense, imho, lacks all which I long for in Sacré: It is lush, more spicy than resinious. I find an additional lipstick accord, which I never care for. But, as already said, it surely can satisfy the acquired taste of the usual Caron fan. I read reviews, in which Intense is praised for being closer to the vintage Sacré. I agree, that the vintage is not as dry and spicy, as the recent Sacré formulation (I surprisingly favor the recent one). But comparing these three I would say, that recent Sacré and Intense both are equal distance to the vintage - only from different directions.