Amaranthine

GLORIOUS!! To me, Amaranthine smells EXACTLY, and I do mean EXACTLY, like the sweet, heady, INTOXICATING smell of freshly bloomed hyacinth. Not sure why because hyacinth isn't listed here. One of my favorite times of year is when the hyacinth explodes into spectacular technicolor permeating the air with its DECADENT scent. Looking at the notes here, I now realize why I love that smell. If I had to describe the succulence and deliciousness of hyacinth, then I would say I smell everything listed here, especially the rose, sandalwood, thick, fleshy, luscious green (must be the palm leaf), and honey. Although there is no honey listed here, the milk and tonka bean lend that effect. YUM! Somehow, mixed together these notes exactly replicate that blissful hyacinth experience without screaming floral at the same time. It's just that fresh, creamy, edible, kind of sweet, oh so opulent green (not grass green), the kind you just want to bite into! It's brisk, it's a little strange, it's absolutely intoxicating as in 'What IS that heavenly aroma?!' Hard to describe, but what is even more incredible is that Penhaligon actually found a way to capture nature so perfectly without resulting in any synthetic or screeching chemical notes. I feel as though I have actually been placed INSIDE the hyacinth a moment just before it bursts into bloom! Upon drydown, the honey and sandalwood really warm this up to sublime perfection. Sillage is great and longevity is a good five hours, so far, and still going. I think this one would actually be good on my husband too, because of the green, creamy, slightly powdery, spicy notes underlying that seem to work well in unisex fragrances. Amaranthine reminds me of my time spent in Paris in the spring with my sweet hubby. It's funny because I was reviewing WHAT WE DO IN PARIS earlier along with AMARANTHINE, but I think out of the two the only one that really does make me think of Paris is AMARANTHINE! Just three words: HEADY, INTOXICATING, and ADDICTIVE!! Love, love, LOVE this!!

I am in love with this after buying a sample years ago. Finally caved and spent a bit on the discontinued bottle. There are certain scents in some of my perfumes that make me practically salivate and I want to smell like that all the time. I definitely get green banana that really reminds me of something. Maybe it's those old scratch and sniff banana stickers from the 1980's that were not very sweet smelling. Definitely a bit of rose that takes awhile for me to identify amongst the white flowers and banana. Like a commenter below I almost smell gardenia, but it's probably the way the jasmine and freesia mixes. I also feel something odd, like the absence of coconut, probably because of the creamy base with vanilla, tonka and cream. To me it is a very sensual perfume but simultaneously great for day or night wear. The musk is almost perfect. I love Amaranthine so much and it is discontinued, so I also blind purhased Sira des Indes so I could set up a rotation. I feel almost edible (but sexy edible, not foodie) when I layer the Sira des Indes with some Coty Sand and Sable (gardenia) and maybe some coconut. I've got a few things I like to mix together, just a suggestion since Amaranthine is no longer available (whhhhyyyyy???). I plan to try the PDR Amoureuse eventually if I can, but it is much more pricey than the ones I use more frequently and also TDC Aurore Nomade, but I'm almost afraid to try that one because I'm sure I will love it.

I love this but its not at all what I was expecting. I was expecting something a little more outrageous / risque but on me this is a simply a lovely floral, milky / musky scent - no more, no less. I can see no resemblance to the inside of a woman's thigh (bit disappointing actually as I was curious as to how they would interpret THAT particular aroma.....). This one is obviously all down to individual skin chemistry. Lots of narcotic floral in the opening -I detect tuberose with some green notes (most likely banana leaf) and a little spice. As the fragrance develops, this turns to a devine, creamy dream - think sweet carnation milk mingled with some spicy musk and floral blooms. It never turns sour on me - always sweet. I don't find it too intense and have been wearing it around the office - no-one appears to have been corrupted yet :-) Longevity is pretty good (6-7 hrs for me). To me, this is similar to the now discontinued Miller Harris Coeur d'Ete - they both contain a lot of similar ingredients / notes. I would say that Coeur d'Ete is more intense and actually a bit 'funkier' (if thats your thing). This is certainly one of Penhaligons better creations - fans of this may well also like Tralala as they have a similar milky vibe.

I was lucky enough to score a partial of this discontinued beauty in a blind swap and l’m feeling like I won the lottery. This is such a gorgeous ylang centric fragrance. You know the kind of milky plant sap you get when you cut the stalk of say a dandelion? That starchy, bitter green scent it has? It’s like they took that and added it to ylang essential oil and the sum of the two is this creamy voluptuousness. When I first put it on, I kept thinking of milkshakes and, even though it doesn’t smell of banana at all, there is something of that kind of tropical fruit creaminess. Every other fragrance I’ve tried that is supposed to be milky or creamy is a chemical nightmare but this one is gentle and natural smelling. It gets sweeter towards the middle but always in a tropical flower way rather than a chemical gourmand thing. After wearing it all afternoon and night, I woke up this morning feeling like a Botticelli Venus, suspended in a cloud of utterly relaxed, natural beauty. It’s a deeply strange and unique fragrance and while I deplore the idiocy that led to it’s discontinuation, I get that this might be a bit too sensuous and odd for most perfume buyers. Myself, I plan to savor every last drop.

Oh man I wish I hadn't fallen in love with this discontinued scent! It is a lush tropical flower fragrance with some unusual facets. I get ylang-ylang and jasmine and a jungly green smell (I'm assuming this is the palm leaf?) with some gentle milky undertones. There is a little tickle of spice from the cardamom, which I think smells so lovely with the milkiness. The combination gives an interesting juxtaposition of freshness and cozy warmth. Amaranthine smells very womanly and seductive to me, perhaps a little sweaty but not skanky, more like moist skin in a humid jungle. The longevity is so-so, granted my skin seems to gobble up fragrances pretty quickly. It did last a long time when sprayed on a lightweight scarf. I have a 3mL decant that I am hoarding, mainly spraying it on special occasions or when I need a pick-me-up. Someday I will probably fork over the money to get a FB on ebay. If anyone is selling a bottle feel free to hit me up in a PM!

More an olfactory journey than a straightforward perfume. For the briefest moment I smell citronella - and then it opens with green banana leaf and then blooms white and yellow flowers while tonka bean appears. It smells just exactly like breathing in from the centers of flowers – the jasmine, the freesia, the ylang ylang come out. Not just the beautiful sunny bits, but the live roots and life force pushing through. At some point it gets a bit snarly and animalic. Whiffs of ammonia and even rubber. But this phase is passed through as well. As though the perfume then finds religion or learns to meditate. It finally transcends to a sublime spiced creamy milk, cardamom and tonka bean flow. It’s like a socialite with a raunchy little secret. The dry down is spicy vanilla... Reminding me of a richer creamier Diptyque Eau Duelle. It has darkness within its flowery billows. Stays close to the skin. I love it.

Wow! Love it! I get flowers, spices and leaves with some creamy milk. I must be missing something cos it doesn't smell naughty to me lol I do agree about the similarity with Aurora Nomade but it's no where spicey or bananary enough for a similarity with Sira de Indes. Once settled I do detect something a little skanky and the milk goes off a little but thankfully that doesn't last. It's now softly indolic tropical flowers and steamy green leaves. The flowers dont dominate but are balanced with the vegetation and spices. I lived in the Far East for years and I can never forget the smell of humid jungle. The smell of decomposing vegetation basically. Nobody wants to smell like that lol It starts off quite potent but recedes to a skin scent quite quickly on my skin. This is a scent for a lazy summer evening. It will go well with the smell of my roses, ginger lilies and honeysuckle. Sister Mary x

A beautiful sultry greenery scent with a prominent ylang ylang note. I first tried it from a sample that a member passed down, and albeit its funky smell - I was reminded so much of how "someone else tried this sample on their skin" - I couldn't get it out of my head. Amaranthine really isn't the typical type of scent I'm attracted to, but so addictive I jumped on the chance when I could snatch a bottle. This is a sweaty scent done in the best way possible. If I try to break the notes down there's definitely the ylang, palm leaves, carnation and cardamom, and maybe some salty notes, but I'd rather comprehend Amaranthine holistically and enjoy its grand beauty. I'm still trying to figure out the best time and occasion to wear it since I usually gravitate towards something more clean and delicate. Warm spring days seem to have worked out okay - boyfriend hasn't complained ;)

"Sweet Vegetal Tropical Sap" Amaranthine is the milky ooze of life and fertility. This morning I used the final full spray from my bottle of Amaranthine. The moment felt so much like an ending, it felt like the last chapter of an anthology that you've enjoyed for years and come to know the characters as if in real life. Amaranthine contains so many memories for me. I don't want to let it go. If anyone has a bottle they do not love, or know somewhere to find a bottle, please send me a private message. UPDATE: I got a bottle off ebay! I'll always be on the look-out for another bottle, but one is being shipped to me right now, my precioussssss in on her way :-) (but please do let me know if you are willing to sell a bottle or know of where to find one because I'll empty this new bottle by the end of summer for sure.)

full of colours is right, this is wonderfull but weak and so close to the skin, it is intimate scent ! but there is a pure parfum version you can see it in the pictures with a little violet coloured bottle with silver at the top, like a fruit, it costs about 500 $ and 399 euros i think !! if i was rich i woul buy it, yes cause this perfume is really dangerous, it is like a liquorous milky venom, exotic it smells like tropical plants, imagine yourself in a very sweaty environment, heat and warm with very green smells of leafs of tropical trees, this is really mysterious and dirty very sensual but not provocative you feel like" une créature à part " you feel like you are not in the place, like if everything is moving but you , an experience to live !

Wonderfully weird concoction that only Bertrand Duchaufour can create. Sharp and pungent in the beginning, giving way to a milky green note. Ylang-ylang and neroli give it tropical and exotic quality. Floral burst provided by jasmine and freesia (some faint rose) and then there is this musky, ambery, golden pepper (which is actually not there but appears to be). Apparently the brief for this fragrance was to make something smell like a woman's inside leg!!! Go figure! Weirdly compelling and most certainly THE most daring of the otherwise rather conservative Penhaligon's range. Great concept perfume!!! 8/10

When I wear this I am transported to a lush elegant floral garden in the middle of a tropical rainforest drinking tea and eating creamy delicate desserts. It is light enough to wear everyday and lasts on my skin for 24 hrs. My skin tends to amplify most scents. Projection is poor but will last on the skin in a very intimate way. + After wearing this for some time I notice a high pitched note (freesia?) that bothers me sometimes. I still enjoy wearing it but i prefer to wear it less often so not to become annoyed with it. For some reason this scent reminds me of those banana hard candies

Gorgeous!!! Delicious concoction!!! I love, love,love it!!! So creamy, sweet; banana dessert, vanilla, beautiful lush flowers, amazing warm spices, rich and potent, dreamy milky sandalwood, oozing with sensuousness and yumminess. Aromatic and calming, musky and evocative, erotic. Very very sensual, exotic, moorish and - yes! - lickable!!!! Very long-lasting and great sillage!!! Load, loads of compliments!!! My husband particularly adores it!!! It's absolutely heavenly!!!!

To me, this is all freesia.Fresh, green, creamy and floral - this is a stunner! I'm with Sabel, can't stop smelling my wrist. Really lovely. It does remind me a little of Organza, another favourite of mine, that same balance of creamy white florals and fresh greenness - but I think this is a little fresher. For me, this is one to buy - and their bottles are so beautiful, too! Sigh ... bliss!

Amaranthine opens with sparkling fresh green notes that after few minutes became warmer thanks to flowers. In its heart i can recognize rose and carnation stronger that the others. Then the drydown is very sweet and it's like vanilla powder.i think taht condensed milk gives cremosity to the composition.i recomend it for who loves mistery and wants to be seductive...

since im an obvlious florientalgirl i love this one too! perfect for colder days this brand has amazing stayingpower, i did remember trying it and it stayed on my wrist for quite a while,im obsessed with ellenisia right now but amaranthine could be my next purchase, i secretly suspect they had enya as their inspiration to name it:)

the sl*ttiest perfume i have ever put on my skin can i say that? i am obsessed with it. i don't know much about notes and things, so to me it smells like the thickest part of spring. skin glowing and sensitive, the same temperature inside as outside. it's Good Stuff, and i'm sad to hear it's been discontinued!

This is a kinky perfume. Milky, creamy, ripe... lickable. A very very bad bad naughty perfume. This is the fantasi smell of a german milkmaids nipple sweat. I only like to Wear it in the spring, and in the summer, when it is not to hot. An interesting perfume experience. Probably not for Work.

This is gorgeous juice. A laconic, cool spicy, comforting tea scent by a genius perfumer. To be discontinued is nonsense! It's not like Penhaligon's has such a huge inventory. Oh well, I'll treasure my bottle.

I love this fragrance. It is such an interesting combination with the milk, banana and ylang ylang. The scent starts off very green and gradually becomes more musky spicy and milky. Beautiful perfume