Love Eau Intense

Love Intense is quite an intriguing creation. The original Love is one of the better designer scents released the past decade. An effervescent and easy going fragrance, composed of purple flowers and an elegant, powdery backbone. It is quite a shame that, along with its flankers, Love is discontinued. Even though I like the original a lot and would actually wear it, despite it's uber feminine status; it's the equivalent of wearing a hyacinth mascot costume which shouts "Look at me!', simply because of it's nuclear longevity and sillage - it's too much for me personally. I'd rather much wear the Intense flanker. It dials down on the sillage and soapy flowers, and replaces them with vanilla, tolu balsam and musk. The opening actually reminds me of Licor 43; I guess it's the iris and heliotrope combined with the vanilla. It's powdery, floral but also balsamic - it also has a nutty, almondy feeling, provided by the heliotrope. The vanilla in Intense is more of the vanilla extract kind, that gooey, brown liquid you would add to your cakes. It's dark, sweet but it also has a bitter facet. After the booze-like opening fades, a swooning trio of purple flowers shows up, with lilac being the most noticeable. It's not as hyper floral as in the original Love. I can also sense a bit of hyacinth, but the lilac is most prominent to me. It merges beautifully with the opening, balancing floral notes with powdery ones. It is never too sweet or overpowering, though. The drydown is the best part of the fragrance. The florals start to fade and the musk appears. It gives Intense it's fluffy and clean character, whereas the vanilla and tolu balsam increase the balsamic aspect of Intense. The end result is a powdery floral, resting on a cloud of musk and dark vanilla with leathery aspects. Longevity is good, around 6-8 hours for me. Sillage is considerably lighter when compared to the original Love (which is a good thing for me). It hovers around me for a good 4 hours, before turning into a skin scent. Somehow it actually reminds me of Gucci EdP, launched in 2002. It has that same sensual vanilla and floral combination. The Gucci is a lot more subdued, spicy and leathery though. You could consider Intense to be it's more upbeat, daytime sister; being more floral and clean. Love Intense is a really good fragrance, and I'd advise you to pick it up before it completely disappears and prices will skyrocket for this little gem.

I Looooooooove this fragrance!! Totally divine and a really sexy scent that makes me feel like the ultimate woman :)) It's a warm fragrance with a soft but intense luxury amber note, sweet vanilla/almond and a touch of iris. The powdery note is well balanced with all notes in the perfume, creating a gorgeous iris-vanilla/almond balsamic fragrance. Really long lasting and such a yummy scent. I'm a big fan of the hole Chloe Love line, but compared to the original Chloe Love this scent is more sophisticated, sexy and intense.... at the same time very modern!! It's a winner :-)) MUST HAVE AT HOME AT ALL TIME!! Jag äääääälskar doften! Helt gudomlig, en riktigt sexig doft som får mig att känna sig som den ultimata kvinnan :)) Det är en varm doft med en mjuk men intensiv lyxig ambernot, söt vanilj / mandel och en touch av iris. Den pudriga tonen är väl balanserad med alla delar i parfymen, vilket skapar en underbar iris-vanilla/almond balsamic doft. Sitter hela dagen och doftar gudomligt!! Jag är ett stort fan av hela Chloe Love serien, men jämfört med den orginalet Chloe Love doftar denna mer sofistikerad, sexigt och intensivt .... samtidigt väldigt modernt! Detta är en vinnare :) MÅSTE HA HEMMA HELA TIDEN!

I remember the first time I smelled it (I had a sample), it disappointed me a little bit: I found that the powdery dust that I loved so much in the classic Love here was a bit "ruined" by a slightly bitter note, annoying to my nose. So I gave the sample away! But now I've just received it in a swapping, and I could easy try it on my skin; so I realized that this note is very pleasant on my skin, and it gives to the entire composition an unusual(by my standards!)and refined touch. It'is perhaps balsam of Peru note that gives this light leathery effect. And that's why the Chloe fragrance recalled to my mind another scent in which the powdery notes are accompanied with the note of leather: Putain de Palace of Etat Libre d'Orange (although in this case the powdery notes are those of rose and violet, while in Chloe they're given by iris, hyacinth and heliotrope). I also found this Chloe a little bit similar to Malle Lipstick Rose, for its dust and "cosmetic" creaminess, even if in the Malle fragrance you can distinctly smell the violet rose. For me, this is an amazing fragrance, but not so more intense than the classic Love.

I recently purchased Love, Chloe eau Intense. I own and love other Chloe perfumes such as Chloe Chloe EDP, Chloe l'eau Chloe. Chloe EDP and L'eau Chloe are rose centered. Love, Chloe eau Intense in my opinion is a spicy floral. I wore it today for the first extended period of time and I am happy! I have been looking for a signature and this may be it. I sprayed about 5 healthy sprays total....one on each wrist, behind each ear and one spray on my decollatage. At first to me it seemed a bit over-powering but as I was leaving for work my husband commented twice on how good I smelled. Hmm...that's a good sign. My hubby usually doesn't tell me that unless I have some sickly sweet gourmand like Britney Spears Midnight Fantasy on, which I keep around just for him. I kept getting wafts of this perfume for about 8-9 hours at work. Again, a little overwhelming at first then spicy, almost Big Red gum, in the middle with lovely sweet spice and then dried purple flowers with a hint of sweetness for the dry down. Hopefully I have described it correctly, in my humble opinion anyway. I really like it so far....

As I am wearing this today on an autumn day I felt the need to share my story on this one. I got this bottle, which is almost empty, just before COVID on sale at Corte Ingles, 40 for 50ml bottle. I never owned any Chloe fragrance, and never bought any after, but this was love at first smell. It's beautiful! Sure not going to say anything that has not already has been said. It makes you feel clean, feminine, classy, calm. Love wearing this at night after shower, but this definitely can be worn just as much with a nice dress for a night out. I got this together with a bottle of eau Florale. Both are beauties on their own. After wearing it for a few days I discovered how much sought after this is and sadly discontinued, so I called the Cort Ingles, telling them to save the left over bottles as I needed a backup!! So here I am being spare with this beauty and 60% down on my first bottle, but wow I am glad I still have 2 hidden in a corner. I Thought I would sell them one day, but this is something that I cannot do ever!