// I'm not a big fan of parallax scrolling sites. Mainly because it is CPU-intensive which means that you will have people with a bad experience and by definition you are constrained to a small number of "pages" which means that you can only use it for small sites and you can't upgrade such a site easily (you will end up re-designing it). 

But this 2012 wish card mini-site of Soleil Noir is simply beautifully done: 
– Vertically scrolling that makes sense: the content is linear (you're supposed to read each page after the other) and extremely short so quick flipping through it is actually needed as opposed to clicking on a menu where the use pauses to think about what he needs to do
– Animations are not only part of the scroll but continue after you've reached a key point giving the impression of a "live page", an element of nature that you're there to experience 
– URL changes according to where you are and a navigation menu is on the right (for some implementations, these are details to be ignored as not overly needed)

See the site here http://bit.ly/Zt4srn
Got any good examples of parallax scrolling that parallax is just used because it's trendy? :)