Red Pearl

Hello friends! I first experienced Red Pearl by taking a chance and ordering a bottle that was only $9.00. As soon as I sprayed it I hopped online and ordered two more bottles for fear that I may never come across it again! This perfume smells so rich. Not as in, "I am a wealthy woman, rich" but in character. It reminds me very much of the perfume my mom used to wear in the 80's called "Raffinee". I don't get a gourmand scent so much as a warm rich floral with a bit of fruit that comes through in the first phase. This perfume has good silage and garnered many compliments. I wore this in Mexico last summer when it was VERY hot and humid. I don't think this necessarily is a "winter" scent. It is enhanced by the heat and humidity of the sun. The bottle is pretty and the "juice" is a golden amber color that expresses the warmth and depth that will come through on your skin. This scent is just so warm, sensual and indulgent. Try it~ I think for the most part it is a unknown winner...Sort of like a small winery that puts out an amazing vintage in small quantities that not many people have heard of, but if head to head with a 96+ pt heavily marketed $$$$ wine in a competition, it would win hands down. 2020 COVID19 Quarantine update~ Revisiting old perfumes to try to cheer my bored self up. I forgot about this gem. If you like big loud florientals you may enjoy this...If you like Amarige, Poison, Raffinee, Victoria's Secret Rapture, or Escada Escada, Fire & Ice by Revlon, or Bob Mackie’s Mackie, you may enjoy this. <3 blessings to all. Stay safe. xo

This is one of my favorites, and I finally figured out why-- on me this smells like Poison, the ORIGINAL Dior Poison, knock-you-on-your-butt-spicy-warm. I bought this in late summer, and I was miffed to see that everyone who reviewed it said it was pretty inexpensive to purchase. Anyhow, it was worth the price. From beginning to end, this is warm, spicy, intoxicating. It has a sweet incense like scent on me, with a hint of the tonka, violet, and fruit--but not like the new very fruity scents. If you loved the middle and dry down of Poison, but can't get past the beginning, this may be the scent for you. On me, this is all the things I love about Poison without the price tag. It's longevity is insane, and after 12+ hours still smells exactly the same on me. This perfume is not by a fashion design house. It is wonderful. It is rich, spicy, warm, distinctive. ***2 years later... This scent does not so much as evolve--as the notes play hide and seek, but always with an over all scent like when it was first warming up and blending with my chemistry. Also--if you love nag champa or dragon blood incense, you should really give this a try!!! I really loved this in the fall and winter, seems overwhelming for summer days but an excellent summer evening scent, especially a humid evening...but beware! She packs a hell of a wallop, spritz with a light hand until you know how it reacts with your chemistry. This follows me, but never gets there before me--and if I am in one place for a bit, will linger after I've left.

The reviews of Red Pearl were tempting, especially because quite a few of my favorite reviewers and perfume quasi-twins are here, rooting for this unknown supah cheap blue light special of a juice in one of the uber tackiest bottles I have seen - in person, the huge red plastic "pearl" top wrapped in gilded plastic planetary rings has to be seen to be appreciated...yikes!. So I had to have it. Surpriiiiise!!!: Yes, Red Pearl is gorgeous in two phases: coming out of the gate munching on pralines and candied flowers and hours later, drying down to sweet amber with a vanilla mainlining habit. Perhaps its my sweets gobbling skin chemistry, but the "in between", ummmm - not so much. On me, it has some off note of citrus, passion fruit and black currants left to macerate too long. However, in my naughty, non-purist way, I have found that a spritz of Honey and The Moon (Tokyo Milk) or Ava Luxe's fabulous "Honey" blend the icky compote back into the other ingredients and creates a perfect bridge between fabulous opening and lovely drydown. Despite the small and easily adjustable issue I had with the not-so-pleasant fruit compote someone left out all night, Red Pearl is worth a LOT more than you will pay for it. So to all the other reviewers on this page, I say thank you - great advice, great discovery, and for (metaphorical) pennies only!

Red Pearl by Paris Bleu is an indie perfume that nobody's heard of. I first bought it from a street vendor in Soho, NYC in 2004. It always reminds me of that trip. It is a spicy amber oriental with a distinctive silage like no other. Years later, I smelled it at an open-air shopping mall in metro Chicago. The silage was left behind by a lady who knows. I searched a long walkway looking for her so I could ask her about it, but I never found her. I always have a bottle of this. Sometimes I get a bottle with a sprayer that sticks, and you can't use it unless you rinse the nozzle with warm water every time. Red Pearl is available online at an affordable price. I noticed availability dropped for a time, and now it is back. Paris Bleu, the original manufacturer, was restructured and now has a different owner, SPCC (Societe Parisienne de Parfums & Cosmetiques.)

Red Pearl is really beautiful. The vanilla is warm and rich, the tonka bean gives it an edge of spice but not too much. It stays on the side of sweet and delicious. Give it a half hour to settle in to the above, the first little bit it's struggling. But once it settles, omg, it's soooo good. The floral, praline, passionfruit, all the other notes listed are balanced and not really ones you can pick out. It just works perfectly. I can get a bit of musk but again, it's not overdone. I found a bottle on an auction. It was under $20 and a blind buy. I'd never heard of this one before. The box it came in was really that of an expensive perfume. It's nestled in almost kind of a display stand when you take the top off. I have 100ml and glad to have it because I doubt I'll find it again.