Kenzo Amour, aka kenzoamour, is this year’s fragrance release from the house of Kenzo. Amour was created by perfumers Daphne Bugey and Olivier Cresp and features notes of cherry blossom, rice steam, white tea, frangipani, heliotrope, thanaka wood, incense, vanilla and musk. It was…

…inspired by a couple’s voyage through India, Japan and Vietnam.

“The basic idea was a voyage of love, of emotion, and a bird as a symbol of love,” explained Patrick Guedj, Parfums Kenzo’s creative director and head of marketing, referring to a multicolored turtledove featured on the fragrance’s packaging and in advertising. (via Women’s Wear Daily, 5/15/2006)

Amour starts with a sweet, highly stylised floral accord. After that, the floral notes rapidly fade into the backdrop, and the whole thing settles into a fluffy, cloud-like concoction of vanilla and musky woods…

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