Kenzo Amour is an eau de parfum launched by Kenzo in 2006, created by Daphné Bugey and Olivier Cresp. The house describes it as a floral woody musky scent, a tribute to Balinese offerings: rice and white tea at the top, frangipani and cherry blossoms with heliotrope, and a base of vanilla, white musks and incense. Karim Rashid designed its colorful bottle.
Robin (Now Smell This) finds Kenzo Amour tame but soothing, like rice pudding without anything culinary about it; Jeanne Doré (Auparfum) judges it divinely good, in the manner of a body cream that melts in and is soon forgotten.
Olfastory’s review
Now Smell This, August 2006
Robin describes a sweet, highly stylized floral opening that quickly fades behind a cloud of vanilla and musky woods, a milky rice and a veil of powder. The fragrance vaguely reminds her of rice pudding, without ever smelling of the kitchen.
Nothing exotic, she judges, despite the faraway lands invoked: a remarkably tame fragrance, ruffled only by a dark wood and a little incense. Yet its very blandness is what appeals, like that of rice pudding; it smells nice, calms, and is worth trying.
Auparfum, July 2007
Jeanne Doré reads in Kenzo Amour a South Asian escapade translated into a powdery, musky, almond accord, bitter and sweet at once. She notes the absence of real top notes, rare in a mainstream fragrance: the base reveals itself straight away, with no intermediary.
It smells divinely good, she writes, but rather in the manner of a body cream or a room fragrance, one you forget once worn. She finds a kinship with the base of Guerlain’s L’Instant, and a powderiness that extends that of Flower by Kenzo.