Le Parfum Eau de Parfum Intense

Elie saab is one of my favorite perfume brands and I like almost all their fumes(my only exception is nuit version which I'm yet on the fence about it).my feelings towards most of them is strong like.I own couture version,rose version,edt version and original le parfum and I really enjoy wearing them all.le parfum is great for any dressy occasion,date,nights out,parties &... I love to wear it because it feels very elegant,rich,sensual and there's no chance you go unnoticed.it's pure feminity and charm.I mostly love to wear it because it's good impression on other people but even if I wasn't a perfume addict I couldn't think of it as my signature,there's something in it that makes me crave it just sometimes and not always.I hardly believe it's strong jasmine note in le parfum which sometimes I become tired of it Elie saab intense is exactly what I wished le parfum was.they have a lot in common but strong jasmine note in le parfum is replaced by a gorgeous orange blossom,my favorite floral note which I believe goes better than jasmine with honey and amber and my body chemistry I can't stop smelling myself when I wear intense version.it's like a golden magical potion too good to be part of this world,it belongs to world of stories,tales and myths.it deserves to become a classic.I wish elie saab to produce it until I live so that I can proudly introduce it to my grand children fifty years later as one of my top ten favorite perfumes,always and forever for me Le parfum has excellent projection,intense version is even better while it's even more rounded so don't associate the word "intense" with something sharp,invasive or cloying.in my experience even most strong perfumes have good sillage at first minutes of application,after half an hour there's a rapid drop in their projection but most elie saabs aren't like that.they keep their good projection for hours so if you test them at the same time with other perfumes,in most cases while other options become faint and only noticable by sniffing deeply and closely,le parfum and intense are still strongly wafting.quality and clearness is vivid in their scent,they're lively and have depth and never feel flat It's strange for me to see some people complain about it's strength! I'm into sillage monsters and it's very satisfying for me.if sprayed normally you can smell it's gorgeous scent wafting around you and as you walk,you will leave a lovely trail of honeyed florals behind you.if sprayed with a heavy hand it can fill a room! About it's longevity,after just one quick spray on back of my hand I can smell it's faint dry down after +12 hours.it clings on clothes until you wash them For me,intense flanker goes further than original le parfum in every aspect and is an improved version of it's sister. if orange blossom and honey are among your favorite notes like in my case,you will definitely love it.as mentioned honeyed orange blossom is the strongest,but I also can detect all the other notes in it's pyramid.what can accompany orange blossom better than ylang-ylang and rose?and amber and patchouli make this honey,floral combo even deeper,warmer and richer.honey is thicker in this version and it's spicy ambery kick make it a little sweeter than le parfum,but orange blossom can handle sweetness better than jasmine so it doesn't get cloying.a subtle patchouli,rose and something like a soft whisper of vanilla mostly show up in drydown and make it even more erotic. I can't detect dramatic changes through it's life.there's just tiney differences between different stages and all the stages of it are devine and yes,I'm gladly adding it to my top shelf.I'm mad at myself for buying it late.if I was not a perfume addict,just one bottle of elie saab le parfum intense for special occasions and one bottle of something simple for daily use would do the job for me If you like warm,sweet ambery floral scents,something rich and classy and sexy at the same time,something that guarantees complements and makes you shine like gold,give this one a try Longevity is +12 hours on my skin,projection is great..right now it's my favorite elie saab Highly recommended ❤❤❤❤❤ اگه با یاس الی سال له پارفیوم مشکل داشتیدحتما ورژن اینتنسش رو تست کنید.اینجا یاس با شکوفه پرتقال و کمی هم یلانگ یلانگ جایگزین شده که بنظر من شکوفه پرتقال هم خوانی خیلی بهتری با عسل و امبر داره.یکم شیرینتر از الی ساب له پارفیوم هست و به لطف حضور کمرنگ پچولی و رز تو درای داون،به مراتب محرکتر هست اگه عطری شیک،جذاب،اغواگر،خانومانه و قوی میخواید که باهاش مثل طلا بدرخشید و چشم ها بهتون خیره شه این عطر بی نظیر رو از دست ندید..من ک عاشقش شدم علاوه بر رایحه جذاب و خوش بازخوردش، پخش و موندگاری فوق العاده ای هم داره

This fragrance and I have had a rocky relationship. Think of a romantic comedy .... there I am strolling down the street whereupon I bump into a human form of this fragrance, Hugh Grant, and his obnoxious arrogance makes me slap him in the face which stuns him. Irony of ironies though I find out he is my cousins best friend and we meet at a family gathering ... my Aunt's and Uncle's 50th. He tells of this really clumsy girl slapping him in the face to this ultra sexy woman who treats him as a baby. Suddenly he catches my eye as I am about to sing. It physically hurts me to see him sway with this woman. I meet another man. Softer, sweeter, gentlemanly and kind. What could go wrong? HE is also married! Fast forward to the 3rd act. He finds out ultra sexy woman is actually married to big butch boxer type who then beats him up properly. He realises what a twit he was. He is in hospital and he asks to see me. I, meanwhile, am about to make a mistake of allowing the roguish and drunk Rufus Sewell seduce me into being his mistress when I get the call ... a little hesitantly I walk out of the mansion but realise I made the right decision when I see his wife sitting on a step crying. "You could do better!" I kindly say. She does not respond. I am at the hospital bed seeing him lying there sad, neglected; as I find out he was orphaned that day we first met... he had just heard his father died. That he did not mean to make me feel insulted. A flicker of the eyelids, a small brush on the hand. I see him for the first time, properly see him. This is the man I need in my life, one who can smile through pain. We end up talking the whole night through in the hospital room (in a rom-com that is allowed!) I wake up, he is still asleep but as I watch him my heart grows ... I realise I love him. This has been my third try of this particular fragrance from a sample ... yes, after the third act ... I want this fragrance that I so sorely misunderstood before. I guess it was because it was unlike anything I have tested before but now I own Alien, I get it now. Elie Saabs Le Parfum Intense is definitely a scent for the late twenties onwards range. Very strong, warm and intense floral that does indeed need time to grow but once it does ... you will never look back again at an almost blind buy to one you have tried and smelt. The only sweetness is from honey adding the strength and anchoring down the stronger florals onto your wrist. Elie, forgive me for 'slapping you in the face' metaphorically and almost being one of the very hates. I love you, Elie.

This is syrupy seduction in a bottle. Wearing this I feel like I'm eating basbousa that's been soaked in orange flower water and rose water then drenched with the sweetest, thick orange honey and topped with pistachios or almonds. It's just after sunrise. I'm sitting in a backyard of a beautiful villa in a Beirut suburb, staring at the cedars in the distance and the jasmine flowers that are blooming through the fence. My gaze shifts between them and the single rose laying on the table, the rose my lover left me with last night. I can hear the birds humming with me to Fairouz classics. I can smell the neighbour's argileh (shisha/hookah). I'm on my third cup of cardamom flavoured shai (tea). I'm daydreaming of my travels, my nights in Casablanca, in Algiers, in Damascus and in Riyadh. I feel like a basbousa. There's your Lebanese/Arabian picture, I hope I painted it well for those unfamiliar lol. As you can see I'm obsessed with this perfume. It's intoxocating, dreamy, elegant. A lot call it powdery but I disagree. I'm not one for powdery scents, and if you look at my past reviews you'll see that for all my favourites, one of my most used adjectives is creamy. It's also incredibly unique. Orange blossom is the most prominent scent on me, but post drydown rose and honey are strong but in the most modern, sexiest way possible. There's a Iraqi quote, "As if the clay you were made of, was kneaded with rose water". I feel like the living embodiment of this quote when I wear this :) I want to thank Elie Saab and Francis Kurkdjian for this fragrance, and I wish I could do it personally. Give this perfume a chance. Also editing to say I love this in the winter. Most reviews say it's more spring to them, but to me it's very fitting and comforting for my cold Canadian winters.

This is THE ONE! When I got this and sprayed it for the first time, my thought was: "I can swap all my other bottles. This is all I will ever need!" How is that for strong love? I have over 40 full bottles but this would be what I would keep if I had to pick just one. I do own the EDT, EDP and L'eau Couture. I love them too but the EDT&EDP versions are a little more stinging and sharp. I crave them and wear one or the other several times a week but lately, I had been layering them with a sweeter base like Lolita Lempicka Fleur Defendue just to soften them up a little. Well now, with the Intense version, it's all in one bottle! The orange blossom and honey is still predominant and is the classic ES signature, but the addition of the amber just smooths it all out, rounds the harsher edges. It also gives a very little hint of powder which is a characteristic I enjoy when done well. Even though this is warmed up, it is still what I think will be very versatile as far as seasons go. And because I'm a skirt instead of shorts and dresses layered over jeans kind of girl, I think it will suit any occasion/outfit of mine. I want to bathe in this, I love it so much. I luckily ordered two samples of this and the L'eau Couture but didn't even wait to order this in a full bottle because just reading the notes and reviews here. I knew I'd adore it. I'll save one of the samples for my hand bag for on the go refreshers. Because I'm an Elie Saab fanatic, I have back-up bottles of the EDP too. If anyone is interested in swapping their Intense for an EDP, let me know. And I'm also lucky to have started the swap process for a fb of Couture too. My life is complete. <3

Now, going towards winter Elie Saab Intense makes a lot of sense. Too much for my budget. I love it, simply put. In my previous review I wrote that this smells like amber intimacy. It's still true for me, but today Elie Saab Intense (from a big sample) really bloomed on my wrist. This is the kind of perfume that I can call PERFUME. Here we are. Forget about all the stingy plasticky florals around. Here we have the Floral in all its due richness, glory and feminity. Is this sweet? Yes, it is sweet, but here you need to forget all the factory candies and sugary perfumes of this world. The orange flower is lovely and it is so well blended with the warm base, that ESI eventually manages to be true to its nature from start to end. In many cases floral-woody perfume have a very bright, almost fresh-pungent opening, but after a few hours you only smell a plasticky woody drydown, quite harsh that has no relation with the first part of the scent. Here every stage is linked to the other ones. It also reminds me of the oldest thick Neroli from L'Occitane. This ES smells powerful and rich in a very Middle Eastern way and it blinks the eye to old-fashioned lady perfumes, but at same time it is definetely a modern one. I smell the honey, too and it's not obnoxious. For me ES Intense is a perfect example of a good marriage between modernity and old-world extravagance. I wouldn't suggest this Elie Saab and no Elie Saab to someone who doesn't love orange blossom. You need to love orange blossom for this. And I do.