Grand Amour 1996 Eau de Parfum

Grand Amour (Eau de Parfum) by Goutal
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Grand Amour (Eau de Parfum) is a perfume by Goutal for women and was released in 1996. The scent is floral-green. It is being marketed by Amore Pacific / 아모레퍼시픽.
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Main accords

Floral
Green
Spicy
Fresh
Powdery

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
Blackcurrant budBlackcurrant bud GalbanumGalbanum
Heart Notes Heart Notes
HyacinthHyacinth HoneysuckleHoneysuckle White lilyWhite lily
Base Notes Base Notes
VanillaVanilla AmberAmber SandalwoodSandalwood

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7.1191 Ratings
Longevity
7.2122 Ratings
Sillage
6.2119 Ratings
Bottle
8.0120 Ratings
Value for money
7.815 Ratings
Submitted by Seglein, last update on 08.11.2023.

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Duftpsyche

10 Reviews
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Duftpsyche
Duftpsyche
Helpful Review 6  
only gradually did I learn to love you.
Grand amour, or "great love," is also a big cliché. And it rarely happens "at first sight. And if it does, it is often the beginning of an "amour fou", a complicated love-hate relationship. So you might think to a perfume name like that, "what a tall order." Especially as a fragrance. Where as tastes are so exceedingly different. The previous reviews of this fragrance are friendly, but noticeably ambivalent.No idea if I can love such "high perfumery", just because the name wants?
So I approached, more out of curiosity than expectation cautiously with a 5ml bottling. On the one hand to get to know the house Annick Goutal, but on the other hand also curious by the Bescheibungen become.
Strange, my first impression was really strange undeffinierbar, unknown and somehow "dark green", like a mossy waldtümpel or slightly musty old velvet. anyway not what I imagine under fragrance. So nope. Was probably nix. Beiseite.

Four weeks later, the other samples had long been tested and easier to judge, because I wanted to visit the "mossy, woody green pond with frog spawn in the reeds " probehalber again. To see if there are not perhaps somewhere water lilies. But I found none! For it the "light mustiness" had given way to a kind of freshness, which I could not explain to myself.

And the scent did not let me rest. ( Of course, not, that is always so at the beginning of a GrandAmour) So I had to carry in the sunny May this idiosyncratic fragrance then despite "dark green" but just times for a walk. Just so. To a purchase I drive into the neighboring town. And how strangely enchanting! With every movement of my arm on the steering wheel, an elegant, soapy breeze whispers to me from somewhere something about may-green leaf tips and radiant white blossoms. While I, concentrated on traffic, had completely forgotten what I was wearing, the olfactory flattery continued. Wherever I went, the elegant, tangy scent of the green always surprisingly blew around me and made me feel so happy and bright inside, as if I were clothed in white light? But what and from where?....na Sure! There's no other way. This must be the strange-new perfume with the demanding name.
In this hour, my perception turned. It should often repeat the past summer and also increase. the better I kennelernte the fragrance the more he liked me. Soon I bought a restflacon GrandAmour, which is now almost emptied in the fall and certainly not the last remains. Even now I do not want to do without it, so much he corresponds to me even now in sunny September.
Member Ergoproxy owns a "Hall of Fame". in mine would probably "Grand Amour", Despite, or perhaps even "because of" the name, because as far as I'm concerned he meets. I like to wear it without restrictions and it pleases me reliably. As with a "Grad Amour", I feel absolutely no desire for more favorites. Bull's eye in the tiny black center. What a gift.
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7.5
Bottle
7.5
Sillage
7.5
Longevity
8
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Ysbrand

84 Reviews
Ysbrand
Ysbrand
Helpful Review 6  
I bring you flowers
Green floral is my favourite category. I like my flowers with the leaves, drops of water and soil in the roots. Grand Amour is one of this pretty green florals that are lacking the mud and a bit of foliage, but on exchange, it has a soulful beauty.

Grand Amour starts with hyacinth. Of all the flowers of the basket, is this gorgeous persian prince the one that stands out, and this note is very realist. As a devoted and faithful hyacinth lover, this opening already conquered me. I keep smelling with fear, i dont want it to go, or to evolve into something else. Luckily for me, it lasts and stays through the fragance.

The hyacinth is not alone at all. Watery lilacs and strongly scented lilies of the valley unfold and shine across the hyacinth waxy blue flowers, fresh and heady; overgrown,long, honeysuckle vines drip its nectar drops. It is very luminous, happy, vivacious. The flowers are breathing and feeling, they give the impression of really be trying their best to be liked, hoping you will like them.

A generous heart of rose pervades and hold together the flower notes, motherly.

Grand Amour is so unaffected is moving, and i understand when they say this is Annick´s declaration of love to her husband. It is lively and fresh, and as it gets warmer (which is an illusion of jasmine, almost unnoticed), Grand Amour gives itself up in such a humble and sincere way i am only thinking in giving it to someone i love.

Said that, Grand Amour is not modern or edgy. Maybe such a sensitive soul doesnt belong in today´s asphalt and steel world. The tenderness evolves into a drydown that i didnt like. As the flowers ripe and fade, we have a warm soft vanilla on a leather and musky base that doesn´t match the lush vernal sensuality of the top and middle stages, since it feels...austere. This base is what i feel most dated and uninteresting.

I wasnt expecting to like it so much, though, so it has been a great surprise.
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Awesomeness

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Awesomeness
Awesomeness
Helpful Review 2  
Lovely but indolic
Grand Amour is a grand perfume in classic style. I've only owned a couple Goutals but they all had a tell-tale consistency to them - they are clear, for lack of a better term, no matter what they are. This one is clear as well, but it also is a bit indolic.

Grand Amour is a grown up Petite Cherie! Hyacinth & honeysuckle blooming right next to fresh dog poo. Better as it dries but I can't get past the indolic elements of this perfume.

I do like Grand Amour for what it is, but it is not something that I would choose to wear.
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5
Bottle
10
Sillage
5
Longevity
9
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Lola82

362 Reviews
Lola82
Lola82
Helpful Review 2  
An Elegiac Beauty
Grand Amour Conjours an Image of long slender fingers clad in Black leather gloves slowly
Caressing a Bouquet of white Lillies as she walked Solemnly through a Stone
Pathed heavily weeded almost derelict Sematary, I can Detect the Note of Iris
In Grand Amour It's cold sharpness A perfect Metaphor for her tears gently
streaming under her Diaphanous black Veil Or Angel statues made of
Marble soaked after an Autumn rain Reveled in it's scent of musty Asphalt,
The Red rose's Blood pouring out from it's sinuous Petals drained of color
Leaves a Deepy Spicy aroma Leads her to a Tombstone of a Long forgotten 20's
Matinee Idol, frozen in time at the age of 31 A small black and white photograph with a Gold edging Fashioned in a Oval A Swarthy Handsome Man
Slender Hair Combed Back almost with a Leather Glisten, round Bedroom eyes
Of Dark Brown Gazed upon her in a trace she fell in lust for him so she
gently raised her veil Revealing her pale Alabaster Placed the Already soaked Bouquet of Lillies on the ground and slowly kissed His tombstone, Leaving a
Lipstick Stain of Aubergine, When it started to rain she opened her Umbrella
and as she was Walking though the Pouring rain she heard a Beautiful Hymn coming from a nearby Church MEMORARE, O piissima Virgo Maria, Tears Again
Filled from her eyes as she walked farther away from the Semetary.

Grand Amour & L'heure Bleue are Sisters of Melancholic Perfumes.
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10
Bottle
7.5
Sillage
7.5
Longevity
7
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Sherapop

1239 Reviews
Sherapop
Sherapop
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Voluptuous Floral Green--not a contradiction in terms...
Love is in the air, Annick Goutal GRAND AMOUR, to be precise. I was looking for love in what was supposed to be an oriental perfume, but I found it instead in this voluptuous floral green.

GRAND AMOUR opens big and flowery: dark jasmine, heavy lily and dewy honeysuckle mingle together initially, and as the composition settles down, green grassy hyacinth erupts in billowy clouds of sillage that keep traveling up my neck to my nose, as if to remind me over and over again that I really am wearing perfume, not just another frag.

At long last, I finally understand the enthusiasm of so many AG fans. Very glad that I did not dismiss this line after three strikes, else I would have missed this. Looking back, from my new exalted vista, having seen the Annick Goutal light after traveling so long and so far through dark tunnels in the night, I recognize that it's quite possible, in fact, that the first couple of samples I tried were insipid reformulations...

GRAND AMOUR, rest assured, is the real thing!
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