Memoire Intense

The memory of intense love. The emotion that this perfume conveys comes from a story that touches the soul personally and leaves the heart vacant, like empty rooms. In the transition, the fragrance describes the sense of emptiness that losing the partner has left inside the heart. The "empty rooms" represent the absence, inhabited only by snapshots and memories of the past life together. They are the "drops of memory" that flow like tears and leave an indelible trace behind them. The ineffability or the inability to express what one feels, to measure the feeling, which is in this a feeling full of pain and nostalgia—inestimable, your absence is elusive that it belongs to me. So what is Mémoire Intense about? It is nothing more than a sweet fragrance with a musky layer under it. A modern chypre, also known as pink chypre, which means citrus, floral and earthy accords are featured, with plenty of patchouli replacing the IFRA-prohibited oakmoss. An extreme and flamboyant refined perfume, belonging to the floral and clean chypre olfactory family. The first splash reveals an atmosphere of oriental jasmine and chypre against a background of woody vanilla, possibly from the cashmere molecule. Well, it opens with a burst of sweet, succulent and pinkish bitter orange. It hooks me from that first breath of beauty. The bitter orange is substantial support, which prevents the scent from becoming too sweet. It is a large, fragrant rose with a realistic orange juice vibe as if the rose petals are floating on fresh orange juice. A perfume beginning that makes itself felt while being quite elegant. The sensation of clean citrus with pink brush strokes. As it settles throughout the day, you feel the notes of vanilla, musk, and its woody base notes become clearer. Modern patchouli becomes quite prominent, giving the fragrance a more earthy feel. The roster features a chypre accord, from which I get notes of something woody, patchouli, cedar shavings and creamy cashmeran, as well as a generous handful of woody vanilla, spicier than gourmand. I love the dry and persistent cedar and the vanilla woven into the musk at the end of the day. In conclusion, I feel it is a crowd-pleaser, a very interesting combination of sweet, clean and fresh chords. A perfect fragrance to wear in hot and cold seasons, from autumn to winter, day or night. I love the grace and elegance of Mémoire Intense highlighted through the chypre structure. It is so well balanced between the woody base and the floral heart, with such a warm and woody fragrance and a sensual touch. Although the formula is very complex while the scent is airy and pleasant at the same time. I love the mystery of this essence, which is captured by the notes of patchouli and the floral heart composed of rose and jasmine, which I perceive intensely. In short, to better convey the idea, this fragrance is very close to the genre proposed by "Idôle L'Intense | Lancôme", also built around a chypre accord. I based the review on an 80ml bottle I have owned since September 2021.

I love laundry scents and this fits that category for me. It opens with a sweet pear (yeah I agree with @Scentedalterego) with a fresh/delicate rose and emerging cotton laundry note coming through as it dries down. There may be a pinch of vanilla when it's fully dried as well. Silliage is moderate for about 3-4 hours before it becomes a skin scent. It seems to last much longer in my hair and on my clothes. Maybe not the most original, but it's an easy reach when I want something fresh, feminine and easy to wear. It's lovely, can't ask for more. My fellow seems to want to snuggle me more when I happen to have this on, so it's doing something right.

I just received my order. Now I am super excited about this perfume. Idôle is one of my favorites and this one really tried to live up to it. A 😍 for me. I know it won't drydown in the same way but damn is good. Rose 🌹 done beautifully, fresh and fruity ❤️ I think I will order one more just in case. Edit: I have Idôle Intense, which I rarely use because I prefer the OG, and by rarely I mean I never wore it, I received a 50ml and a 10ml sample*, it lasts forever and it's missing some of the brightness the OG has. But today, going through my fragances I tried it and I used Memoire Intense a few days ago 😌 it is so similar my gawd

Underrated fragance... All the 4 from this chapter are a must have in my opinion, especially if you're someone who's into wearing according to your emotions.. I have Ginza and Idôle and oh boy the best way I can describe this scent now, is exactly a mix between these fragances, maybe because I got it in the winter it smelt different but now in the summer I swear it got sweeter Today I understand I love them all. I have a back-up bottle of each one, except for this one, I might need to stock up one! (I had 2 for Sublime Epoque, but gave one to my sister)

This has a wow factor and is one of the best in this lineup. It is blended SO beautifully and its performance far exceeds my expectations. I hate saying it's worth a lot more than what it costs because we know Zara takes that and runs with it, but it's true. This is feminine, chic, and elegant and embodies the essence of a woman who is effortlessly and naturally beautiful. In my opinion it is suitable for any occasion any time of year. A definite win and well worth the investment. A little goes a long way.

This is absolutely stunning! I seldom leave reviews but love reading them when I’m interested in learning more about a scent (especially when blind-buying), so I had to leave a review on this one. This is pretty heavy on patchouli, which I happen to love - but if patchouli isn’t your thing this one may not be for you. This isn’t too much of one thing - as in it isn’t too much floral or too much sweetness, it is just simply beautiful.

Absolutely amazing perfume... love it so much and it’s lasts forever on my skin👍🏼I don’t know what idole smelks like but I’m very happy with this one.. I have all 3 golden decade perfumes and I love those as well. I’m impressed with Zara perfumes lately and feel they’re very affordable. I definitely can’t afford paying 300 plus euros for some of the “niche”fragrances. Thank you Zara👍🏼🤗

She smells like your clean laundry you smell during spring towards summer. It gives the clean girl scent that I never thought I would adore it this much. I usually gravitate towards floral notes but this one caught me off guard with the refreshing clean smell you just want to go back to sniff more when you just change your bedsheets. I absolutely adore it!!!

Oh my gosssshhh. This smells sososo nice. The orange is such a true, RIPE juicy orange. Like the juiciest darkest orange was crushed up and reduced in a syrup. The rose and woods are more prominent than the orange, but having that really interesting orange behind them was such a great idea on the perfumers part. I love it :)

This scent is stunning ! In their 4 collections, this is the best for me. I got this in Thailand from Central Ladprao. Rose perfumes is not goin well with me except this one. it’s bright floral roses but not aged. Sweet, fresh not sugary. It’s the safe scent. Great value from Zara !

I am growing to love rose scents. I have all 4 of the Zara Chapter 3 and I only picked this one to complete the set. It's a soapy rose scent that is great on its own or for pairing with something else. It's very nice. It's classy. I love adding it to Calvin Klein Obsession.

Fresh, sweet citrus floral. Delicious, smells expensive. I'm just annoyed because the bottle I bought is falling apart a bit. So annoying the lid takes off more than it should. I suppose you get what you pay for in terms of packaging.

Really sad this got discontinued!! Cant understand why!! :-( I have been serching Zara and then all over ebay, Depop, Vinted for months and cant even find a second hand bottle. Zara PLEASE bring Memoire Intense back!

I can't detect the rose in this. It is not an overpowering perfume. It is not so sweet. I would say it is fresh and sharp and not offensive. You can wear this anywhere. No one is gonna be bothered. I love it.8/10

So so sad this beautiful baby got discontinued. It liked it even better in my skin than Idôle, and was of course much better for my wallet. Oh well... Another victim of Zara's "dupe & kill".

This is beautiful. It resembles Idole to me. It’s long lasting and the musk is just enough to be rich and feminine. Zara outdid themselves. Very Classy!

This one resembles Idôle a lot. Pear 🍐 and Rose 🌹 for sure. Very fresh I feel like it's a chypre It's a love for sure

Zara just brought it back. Go get it if you love Idole

I bought this as another failed attempt of trying to find a perfume that I like as much as I liked Idole L'intense when I first sniffed it. That being said, It is not a bad perfume whatsoever, it almost tricked me for a bit. I also don't share the opinion with the people here saying that it has a bad longevity. I've used this in a double work shift of 15+ hours and It still could be felt quite close to my skin, and I say this because a workmate said she liked my perfume when we said goodbye from a cheek kiss, so, while it lasts, I can't say it is particularly well projecting, but it wasn't a characteristic of my beloved idole intense either. After reviewing the longevity aspect, all I can say is that, this is an in between Idole classic and the L'intense version. At first it reminds of the intense version, just a bit scratchy and unpolished. On the original you can feel the orange zest being pungent but still smooth, juicy, soft and fruity. Memoire intense starts bitter and clean at the same time, which is not bad but when comparing both perfumes is obvious to me which one is one. After that you can feel this floral, clean, almost laundry detergent feel in the perfume which I really enjoy. It is calming and smells genuinely good, but it is not as special man, and that's what is wrong with all the dupes I have tried so far, they lack the juicy orange, floral and woody depth that makes up the beauty that is Idole L'intense. The fragrance world dupe gets the drydown aspect quite good but it last about an hour. So far while it is not duping anything, to me, Idole's L'Intense older sister, Natura Una Art has been a good option. It has great depth, feels soft, musky, juicy, orangy a bit spicy and clean. It has all the qualitys I loved in Idole L'intense but it's remixed in a way that stands on it's own. An original composition that scratches all the good spots. Also the opening reminded me a lot of 5th avenue NYC vibe. In conclussion it's not a bad perfume, but if I want a good clean laundry vibe I'd go with Still by Jennifer Lopez and if I wanted the depth that Idole L'intense had, I'd go with Natura Una Art. Most likely I won't be repurchasing.

2nd update for blind buyers; Yes its idole intense-y as you can see the word play on the bottle. It smells like ski hotel. I know very specific but it reminds me that and “coco_pebz” said this is like luxury soap or body wash you’ll find in a luxury hotel. I can say yes. Safe blind buy. Don’t expect mossy Chypre or rose coma. It’s so light and it has the classic Lancome powdery accord in it. Is it collection worthy? Meh. But it’s a safe fragrance for everyday anytime any setting. At least it can be a good sheet fragrance for your bedroom too. So you’ll definitely use it. But i like it so much bc it gives me soothing vibes & “memories”. Jeez, the name is just so on point that I can’t wrap my head around it.

Wow I can say there’s more than rose. Orange blossom or jasmine perhaps. Compared to idole this is much floral and clean. More elegant and happy feeling. It’s a scent that says “chill, everything is fine.” Comforting, clean (rose clean ♥️) and feminine. It has that Lancome touch (powdery, heavy floral and a hint of sweetness). I hate that powdery floral scent but this is tolerable. I was not expecting to like this so much even though I don’t like Idole at all. I’m hyped up to smell Golden Decade and the rest now. Zara, good job! Longevity is very moderate but you’ll always have a whiff of it time to time, so it’s pong lasting but don’t expect good sillage/projection.

Got this for a steal and it's pretty nice. Nice and strong projection which I like but I get none if the notes listed. To me it smells almost exaclty like Perfect Intense by Marc jacobs/open sky BBW. I love both of those perfumes so I also love this and I feel this projects more than perfect intense. I have idole and mon Guerlain but it smells barely like either of them. If anything I see the comparison to idole because it's a light airy scent, but it's more banana-y to me and sweeter. Less aquatic which I like more Even though these all smell the same to me I will still keep them all in my collection. This sprayer is also very nice. Beautiful misty atomizer !!

Reviews mentioned this is a dupe for lancome's idole. Will update. Received today. From the first spritz, yes it has a very strong resemblance to Lancôme Idole, but slightly softer IMO. Zara's less musky and powdery.. mellower on these 2 notes, which I prefer a lot! Personally I feel that this is a more wearable version of Idôle. So glad I blind bought this. I can't believe the longevity on this! Lasted on me for more than 12 hours. For the $$ I paid for a perfume that smells nice and last long, I am a happy gal!

It has a balance of citrusy, fresh and sweet scent, yet warm and slightly spicy as the top notes wear off. It is, however, suitable for a daily wear, such as at the office, not for special occasions nor date nights. I prefer it for daytime wear and in cooler weather conditions.

Rose and green notes create a very calming vibe. This is an afternoon in the garden, having tea and watching the hummingbirds. It's so serene. It has an airy, clean aspect to it. Really lovely.

It's a soapy rose scent. It smells clean. I like it very much. I wish it had lasted a little longer

A soapy rose scent. A very clean & casual fragrance.

Sampled this and was really put off by the first spray, but reassessing after the 13 Going on 30 dry down. First spray was candy rose, almost gummy bear, and I worried that I was going to smell like a teenager for the next six hours, but the truly sugary notes melted away quickly and there's a little moss and wood surfacing now. I think I just need to admit I don't like powder, so I probably wouldn't buy a full bottle. Luxury hotel soap is a good descriptor for 3-6 hours out. For someone with a better nose and with more fragrances, I can imagine it being a worthwhile buy to experiment with layering since it's affordable.

safe blind buy, typical floral musky cashmere scent, not sweet tho, there's no fruit or amber note or anything. a bit cold, melancholy like the name suggests, sophisticated. it smells a bit similar to signorina eleganza from salvatore ferragamo, but w/o the sharp alcohol smell in the beginning that signorina has, thank god. very smooth. doesn't last as long as the other perfumes in this zara collection, but i don't mind since it's so affordable, you can overspray w/o feeling bad.

On my skin, the scent does really remind me of Idole, but on a sharper sour side rather than being smooth and soft like Idole. The first 15 minutes is straight up Downy detergent, though. Personally, this scent smells better on me in a cooler weather (below 20c), so I would say that it's more of a day-time in fall-winter scent.

I love this scent, but it just completely disappears after 1 hr or so. Projection is almost 0.

This smells exactly like Montale Diamond Greedy. I believe Chapter 3 were not designer dupes at all but Montale dupes. It would be strange if Zara would use this type of bottle for a designer dupe. They have their normal bottle range for that. Majestic Opulence smells exactly like Montale Sweet Flowers, I have both to compare. Although I have never smelled Sublime Epoque, my guess is that it is close to Montale's Orange Flowers which I do have. Haven't figured out yet which one is Golden Decade in the Montale range. It does smell super close to Libre, but people are mentioning that the drydown is different.

Feels like a crispy spring morning: The air is fresh, sun is above you but it's not overwhelmingly warm yet, birds are singing and trees blooming here and there. This is the only fragrance I bought from Zara, and I liked so much that I even got another one, you know, just in case they discontinue it (which of course, they did)... Until I realized there's a significant baby-wipe-smelling drydown in hot weather, and I mean by hot, any temperature over 25 Celsius. Such a shame.

If this doesn’t contain pear I’ll eat my shoe. Very similar to Idole indeed, the same shy rose with pear and an overdose of musk. Based on the notes I was hoping for a chypre like Gris Dior but it’s really quite fruity sweet. I prefer this over Idole. The sillage is more subtle than Red Temptation and Vibrant Leather but still great performance for its price. Get this if you love Idole!

There's been a big media push to launch this line as an alternative to niche perfumery. I was curious, although I should have known better. I wasted money which could have gone toward a niche love. I ordered this and Red Temptation (which is close to BR540 but not identical and decent I guess). This is so ordinary, boring and zaccharine. If you're a niche fiend, steer clear.

Was browsing through Zara’s perfumes for the first time and the name caught my eye! I’m so glad I stayed a while and decided to pick this up because this perfume sits so well on my skin. Airy yet decadent, woody, powdery and sweet - all-round classy & sultry. This might be my nee go-to for evenings!

The first thing I smell when I apply this on my skin is pear. A very sweet, juicy pear, which then blends with rose and some woods, though it never fades away. I am surprised it is not listed in the notes. Very pretty and delicate, though not very long lasting.

why, mémoire intense blended with my skin immediately. i was really hyped after all the good comments but i am disappointed that it didn’t work for me... edit: tried it again and this time on my skin it was pretty synthetic and even playdoh-y...

Starts pink, picturing a fresh rosy soap, and goes on delightfully musky sweet, but not too much. Your skin but better. This simplicity pays. I could even stock up: Zara bottes appear, and disappear unbelievably quickly in their stores.

I tried this in a Zara today and fell IN LOVE. Sweet but not sugary, a little herbal in a fresh way- it makes me think of misty forests. They didn’t have any bottles left to buy, just the tester, but I might have to order this online!

Guys!!! This perfume is a dupe for Experimentum Crucis Etat Libre d'Orange but DONE THE RIGHT WAY!!! Check out my Instagram I do reviews on perfumes @cmartinsnyc

Guys!!! This perfume is a dupe for Experimentum Crucis Etat Libre d'Orange but DONE THE RIGHT WAY!!!

Pretty but uninteresting. Weak performance. I’ll pass.

It is again available on Zara Europe web site!