Kenzo Amour

Kenzo launched Kenzo Amour in 2006, an eau de parfum composed by Daphné Bugey and Olivier Cresp, then perfumers at Firmenich. In the United States, Robin of Now Smell This presented it in August as the house’s release of the year, sold at first exclusively at Nordstrom.

A journey of love

The house presents a sensual, soft and happy fragrance, inspired by the sensations of a journey of love: that of a couple in Asia, slow and sensual, punctuated by encounters and smiles. Osmoz evokes an olfactory itinerary from India to Burma, by way of Japan and Thailand.

Patrick Guedj, creative director and head of marketing at Kenzo Parfums, summed up the idea for Women’s Wear Daily in May 2006: a journey of love and emotion, with a bird as its symbol. A multicolored turtledove thus adorns the fragrance’s box and advertising.

A line

In 2007, Kenzo Amour received the Fragrance Foundation’s FiFi Award for women’s fragrance of the year in the Nouveau Niche category, according to Women’s Wear Daily and Beauty Packaging. In 2008, Daphné Bugey created a limited-edition extrait version, Amour Le Parfum, according to Now Smell This.

The house has extended the line: Jeu d’Amour, presented in 2014 as a variation on Kenzo Amour, now sits alongside it in the Kenzo Parfums range, which keeps the original eau de parfum in 30, 50 and 100 ml bottles.