Back track, I love the stuff. Treating is easy and only needs to be done once a year, I have some paramo sallopets, trousers, a velez smock and their windproof smock. I love all of it, I have been in absolute downpours in the stuff and been bone dry whilst others are soaked.
I also have ventile and goretex, ventile is good but does get very stiff in the wet. Goretex is like wearing a bin bag! I do find that paramo is too hot in warmer conditions hence why I bought the windproof smock which is perfect form summer rain as it is nearly waterproof!
I have had my velez for nearly two years and have whacked through a lot of brush in it and have yet to rip it and unlike goretex if you do snag it you just stich it up and it is waterproof!
I do regulary use the paramo ahead of the ventile, but I do like the feel of the ventile some times, however I have been in a ventile jacket in a downpour got wet and then got cold. If I could only have one I would have my paramo