Amore Mio Garden of Delight

It started as beautiful saffron with sweet citrus (sweet like clementine/mandarin, not screechy like lemon) and hint of jasmine, after 30mins all I can smell is burnt sugar, still some citrusy sweetness with bit of saltiness from ambergris. Very beautiful fragrance especially for it ́s price, definitely can see myself wearing it in hot summer nights. Edit: Second time testing this and 20mins in I can clearly smell fir, don't know where it comes from but in Baccarat which was inspiration for this one is fir resin.

I'll start off by saying I don't love Cloud. I do like its sweet lavender, and that clean, medicinal note in the drydown, but the opening is just not for me. Too fruity (synthetic), with no resemblance to coconut at all to my nose, more like canned lychees and pineapple, just like Thank You Next, but way less of that accord. So I gave up on Cloud as an option for me, but kept it in mind as a reference. Then I found this dark blue flanker of Amore Mio selling online for less than 6€ for a 100mL bottle. The vast majority of my blindbuys are successful, but I confess I wasn't very confident I would like this. I went ahead and bought it anyway, for I have a few people close to me with very different preferences in perfumes, so it's easy, even when it comes to cheapies, to give them away if I can't grow to like them. Despite the accord pyramid of this perfume and its notes, which do not suggest a sweet perfume at all, and do differ a lot from Cloud, they actually smell incredibly similar. Part of this DNA screams "Cloud" to me, but they do have core differences, and that's where this perfume wins, by far, against its celebrity counterpart. Overall this is a more mature scent. Smells like chemicals present in topical anesthetics at the dentist, with a spicy, aromatic twist. Sweetness comes later as it dries down - very creamy and alluring, syrupy, slightly oriental - maintaining its medicinal vibe for a couple of hours. It seems that the ambergris (which is synthetic, obviously, as natural ambergris is illegal) helps this last and project. For a reference, I sprayed a napkin and put it on my desk for 2 days. I could still smell it as I crossed the room by the end of the second day. I then trashed the paper and proceeded to wear it myself. I get whiffs of it as I wear it, but got used to it rather quickly. Those around me definitely detect it. I'm loving it so much, and I absolutely recommend it if you like the 'darker' side of Cloud as I do.

Tout d'abord j'adore le flacon jardin d'Eden en forme de pomme avec le bouchon serpent de cette gamme Amore mio, et les couleurs bleu et doré, tant du flacon que de la boîte, sont très jolies. Pour moi c'est un joli petit parfum chypré, fraîcheur et amertume agréables des agrumes au début, un peu poudré, plus sec par la suite, original. Pas de sillage et tenue légère, mais vu le prix très modique, on peut pschitter généreusement. En revanche le texte de la boîte parle d'oriental et de gourmandise, là je ne vois pas trop. Très satisfaite de mon achat, un parfum contemplatif et pour soi, quand on a besoin de bien-être. Toujours des trouvailles à faire dans cette marque. I love the bottle garden of Eden with the apple and the snake, blue and gold very cute. For me it's a lovely chypre perfume, agrums at first are fresh and bitter, then powder, mossy. It doesn't stay on my skin, but it's very unexpensive. On the box they say it's oriental and sweet, I don't agree. Very happy for buying it, a perfume for myself only, when i need well being. Always little treasures by Jeanne Arthes. Sorry for my language.

Those who apart from originality admire BCR540 for enormous projection and longevity (which are often the elements of an expensive fragrance), are likely to be disappointed with this dupe. I do like it however precisely for being a homeopathic version of BCR. (Also by no means its seems sweeter to me like some have mentioned.) While BCR is still a groundbreaking masterpiece and I do enjoy it occasionally I’m not always up to smelling it from my clothes and bedsheets for days after wearing it. My husband is also one of those who feels it as a medicinal iodine smell and therefore not a fan. So this is when AMGoD comes in for me. To my nose it’s very much like a body spray of BCR would be, allowing me to enjoy the scent for about 3-4 hours from my skin and then move on to something different. Also apart from the snake I do find the bottle quite pretty.)

Smells a lot like cloud, perhaps slighly less sweet. But still - a very sweet scent in my opinion. Everytime I smell this on my hand I see cloud in front of me, thats how similar they are. Either way, its a very pretty scent and its yours for almost no money at all. Longevity might differ from cloud, but haven’t worn it a full day yet so not sure. Also, haven’t smelled BCR so don’t know how good of a dupe this is, if it is similar though, I reckon BCR smells like cloud (as many says)..