Silver Rain 2004 Eau de Parfum

Silver Rain (Eau de Parfum) by La Prairie
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6.8 / 10 98 Ratings
A perfume by La Prairie for women, released in 2004. The scent is floral-fruity. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Floral
Fruity
Spicy
Sweet
Fresh

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
AniseedAniseed AppleApple Lemon vervainLemon vervain BlackberryBlackberry BergamotBergamot CorianderCoriander
Heart Notes Heart Notes
MagnoliaMagnolia JasmineJasmine RoseRose SugarSugar PlumPlum
Base Notes Base Notes
PatchouliPatchouli SandalwoodSandalwood VanillaVanilla OudOud Tonka beanTonka bean

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
6.898 Ratings
Longevity
7.168 Ratings
Sillage
6.763 Ratings
Bottle
8.680 Ratings
Value for money
7.112 Ratings
Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 03/23/2025.

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Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions
7
Pricing
8
Bottle
7
Sillage
8
Longevity
7.5
Scent
Missk

1357 Reviews
Missk
Missk
1  
Balmy Fruit Salad
I find Silver Rain quite a fascinating fragrance. It's not what I had expected, and for that, I'm glad.

The first time I smelt this fragrance in the store, I was almost blown over backwards by the extent of its fruitiness. The blackberry accord is incredibly rich, jammy and sweet. I really liked the fact that it was sweet and fruity, despite the initial shock. My friend who was out shopping with me when I tried it, likened the opening to the scent of fruit salad.

Allowing Silver Rain to settle, I was once again surprised to find a more complex blend in the heart. It just keeps getting better. A sweet floral blend, made up of rose, jasmine and magnolia, tends to smooth out the fruitiness while still keeping things bold and fun.

I absolutely adore these raindrop inspired bottles. I'm so glad that the scent matches this exquisite bottle design.

The drydown is perhaps my favourite part in this fragrance's development. I loved the earthy and resinous blend of oud, patchouli and vanilla. The plum and blackberry accords are still present in these final moments, and blend beautifully with the balmy, oriental accords in the base. Silver Rain is such a sexy scent.

I'm not usually one of those girls that goes bananas over fruity scents, but this fragrance really rocks my socks. I can't wait to go back to the store and sniff it all over again. I highly recommend.

Original review written: September 2012.
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6
Pricing
9
Bottle
5
Sillage
3
Longevity
6
Scent
MrsGuerlain

491 Reviews
MrsGuerlain
MrsGuerlain
2  
Easy to photograph
Ok, I like the bottle… it has the looks to look good in ads and it would be easy for any photographer to make it work. This is not a comment on the actual ad campaign - just a thought about great design.
Do I like the fragrance? I am not sure. Silver Rain has been in my collection for more than 15 years and I have still to decide whether it is a good scent. The amount of notes is overwhelming - maybe that is what makes it hard for me to decide. There is so much going on - in all directions - at all times. Which unfortunately is pretty short for this one. On my skin it lasts four hours, approximately.
I once got a compliment while wearing it. This does not happen when wearing some of my all time loves, so the scent is wearable. Try it out, but hesitate to blind buy or buy a whole bottle straight away.
251/365
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7.5
Sillage
7.5
Longevity
5
Scent
Sherapop

1239 Reviews
Sherapop
Sherapop
Helpful Review 5  
Definitely not an Angel Clone...
A name like "Silver Rain" builds up expectations: will the perfume be watery and cool, tinged slightly blue like dyed white hair? Will it overlap with fragrances along the lines of Creed SILVER MOUNTAIN WATER? Will it shimmer like Calvin Klein TRUTH?

None of these proves to be the case in my experience of La Prairie SILVER RAIN. Unexpectedly, this turns out to be an abstract and sweetish floriental along the lines of ELLEN TRACY or Jessica Simpson FANCY or... fill in the blank. I'd like to believe that the impressive list of notes--boasting among other things, oud--might lift this composition out of the middling designer dredge territory. Alas, they do not. As the fragrance dries down, it smells more and more ordinary to me, and the quality of its solvents remind me more than anything of Chôpard WISH.

In The Holey[sic] Book, this perfume is characterized as an "Angel clone". I could not disagree more. This smells nothing like ANGEL, and I have no idea why anyone with a nose would say such a thing. Or is the confusion here about the meaning of the word 'clone'?

In the end, I can only recommend this perfume to those who like WISH and FANCY. Others will surely be disappointed.
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