Aqua Allegoria Bergamote Calabria Guerlain 2017

Aqua Allegoria Bergamote Calabria by Guerlain

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7.8 / 10 407 Ratings

A popular perfume by Guerlain for women and men, released in 2017. The scent is citrusy-fresh. It is being marketed by LVMH.

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Main accords

Citrus

Fresh

Spicy

Green

Fruity

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Calabrian bergamot

Petitgrain

Heart Notes

Cardamom

Ginger

Base Notes

White musk

Perfumer

Thierry Wasser

Ratings

Scent

7.8407 Ratings

Longevity

6.2351 Ratings

Sillage

6.0346 Ratings

Bottle

8.4345 Ratings

Value for money

6.8152 Ratings

Submitted by Porcelain, last update on 11/21/2024.

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Reviews

9 in-depth fragrance descriptions

08/20/2023

7
Pricing 10
Bottle 6
Longevity 9
Scent

Telekinec
289 Reviews

Telekinec

3

Lemonhead candy with spices

I rarely blind-buy full bottles anymore (mistakes made in the beginning of my journey did cost me a lot). I've had the occasion of testing Bergamote Calabria a few times in-store by spraying it on my wrist. Never had a sample or a travel size before buying the full bottle. This is the second Aqua Allegoria to make it in my collection.

Bergamote Calabria opens with a sweet, almost candy-like lemon, sort of like a lemon drop or a Lemonhead candy. It's slightly fizzy (sour), sweet, fruity and just so pleasant. I felt like emptying the bottle all over me and bathing in it. Energizing, uplifting, gives me a smile everytime I spray it on. After a few minutes, it slowly evolves into this more mature citrusy scent where the sweetness is toned down in favor of a subtle spicy tinge. It's refined elegant, discreet, but also sensual in it's own way. Inoffensive, but great a perfume for those who want to smell citrusy. Bergamot stays the star throughout the perfume, but the spices in there help to elevate everything. I could detect ginger above all else, though there was the enjoyable presence of petitgrain. I did not really smell any cardamom, but at the same time I'm a little bit less accustomed to this spice. Everything ends up slowly fading away into a soft citrusy-musky scent.

I do deplore the fact that it doesn't last as long as I want it to (which is one of the reasons why I bought a Forte version of another Aqua Allegoria perfume). It doesn't take that long before becoming a skin scent which makes it perfect for wearing a perfume that'll fade right before you go in scent-sensitive spaces. Great for summer and warmer weather, I'll be enjoying my bottle with the hope that Guerlain will, one day, transform this in a Forte version where the citrus will want to play longer on my skin.

10/26/2023

6
Pricing 10
Bottle 4
Sillage 4
Longevity 10
Scent

Fragrance16
14 Reviews

Fragrance16

2

A Closeted Festive Season Fragrance.

I don't know ...
Bergamote Calabria give me strong Festive Season vibes (Christmas, Winter Solstice, New Year's)

I did wear it during the Pandemic of 2020 Festive Season.

From the nozzle you get the bergamot, citrus; ---from the nozzle to the application, actually.
However, a spicy essence then presents itself. It seem moderate at first ,,but then the ginger and cardamon becomes dominate while always holding that citrus touch.

I came about this fragrance due to the lotion form. The lotion is just titled something like ..'Lotion with Bergamot'. So, I thought this would be perfect to probably carry the docile in longevity Eaux Fraiche like Imperial, Coq. However, the minute I sniffed the lotion, I got a bite from the spices.
So, I comes to find out, ----that the lotion was base, and directly base, on this fragrance.
(BTW, despite it online instruction, the lotion is not meant for layering with other Guerlain scents except Bergamote Calabria, in my opinion.)

Also, and finally, (I don't mind sharing)
I was pronouncing this wrongly
I pronounced, as an American English speaker 'Calabria' like 'California'. So 'Calibria'
Instead of Kah - Lah - Bria. Oh, gees.

Either way, it is a terribly fantastic fragrance. To me, it is an essential Guerlain fragrance, in that it embodies the Guerlain smell, more so than any other fragrance.

Bergamote Calabria is a dynamic fragrance, that, on the down low, ---also embodies the winding down of the year and it's many celebration with it's spicy touch.

05/11/2020

9
Bottle 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Pollita
243 Reviews

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Pollita

Top Review 55

My first Guerlain

Yeah, what can I say. I think we got a winner here. I don't think I'm gonna wait much longer before I treat myself to this little honey. I'm in love. And that would be my very first Guerlain. As I wrote a few weeks ago at the Néroli Outrenoir - every decent perfume collection needs at least one Guerlain.

I wouldn't have even thought of testing it myself. I'm not a big citrus fan. These scents are absolutely justified in summer and I like fresh scents too, but to wear them myself, simple colognes are often a bit too little modern and a bit too monotonous. But then Mörderbiene wrote a statement about this Aqua Allegoria, not even a positive one, but, it made me sit up and take notice: Cologne tones meet clean musk. That could be one for me, because I have a weakness for delicate musk scents. So maybe try a sniff?

Due to my positive reaction to his statement, my dear Swabian neighbour was kind enough to send me his sample for testing purposes. And with that he hit the mark
When I read the notes here, I was sceptical at first. Ginger and cardamom? The ginger root is not usually my best friend in fragrances. It often makes a fragrance look slightly pungent and produces an unpleasant disturbing factor every now and then. And cardamom? I don't think of a fresh summer scent, but rather of mulled wine or gingerbread. Does that even go together?

It fits, and how it fits. After the citrusy start by the bergamot, it is precisely these tones that provide a pleasant, delicate woodiness in the process. In addition, there is the finest clean musk. This fragrance is unspeakably tender with all its freshness and has enchanted me in no time at all. Yes, I want you! I don't have to think about it
As FVSpee has already written, we have a very close flatterer here. Today's dirty weather doesn't necessarily make you think of temperatures above 30 degrees, but summer will come. And in summer this scent fits me like a glove. This delicate, noble veil of scent that gently envelops you without greatly affecting your surroundings. My husband also sniffs at my neck in raptures.

My first Guerlain - it had to happen sometime. Many thanks to Killer Bee.

03/13/2019

8
Bottle 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 9
Scent

FvSpee
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FvSpee

Top Review 38

Simple recipe, perfectly cooked

A tried and tested simple recipe for making an appealing summer fragrance, which has been used frequently in recent times, is to mix a citrus note with a green culinary herb such as basil or thyme or with another spice such as cardamom. Citrus always conveys the feeling of freshness, and the herb provides a beautiful (and also fresh) antipole. In the somewhat more complex variant, a third component, more in the base note range, such as musk or wood, provides greater depth, durability or suppleness.

This is how a large part of the successful and thoroughly successful Acqua-Colonia series from 4711 works - namely the varieties "Lime & Nutmeg", "Mandarin & Cardamom", "Lemon & Ginger" and "Blood Orange & Basil". Many Acqua-di-Parma fragrances and, at Hermès, Concentré d'Orange Vert and some of its brothers work on the same basic principle.

As simple as the recipe is (you can of course modify it further at any time, for example by replacing the citrus fruit with berries, by adding floral tones to the heart note, or by using more than one base note, such as wood AND vanilla, instead of one), it works so well. Assuming a certain ability, almost nothing can go wrong, apart from the often low durability. In other words, I like such scents.

But you can't buy them all after all. I got myself two in quick succession: First, the Concentré d'Orange Vert I mentioned earlier, which has been on my wish list for at least two years, and this fragrance here, which I bought spontaneously after a short trial. I haven't regretted it.

The bergamot and petitgrain, which do not appear separately here, but strike together as an integrated hesperidic special unit, ensure a wonderfully bright, radiant, clear and cool freshness with a green-tart, lime-like touch, which is perhaps responsible for the fact that this fragrance is the only one of over 40 of the "Aqua Allegoria" series to be listed here not as a women's fragrance but as unisex (is it too; I feel it to be more masculine if at all).

The ginger (warming in winter, but still with a fresh, summery note, see Ginger Ale) rounds off the thing in the sense of a point on the i. But he - and even more the cardamom, which I can only guess at best - know about their role and let the citric free rein in principle.

The white musk, on the other hand, is used so finely, probably in small doses, perhaps also treated in a special way for production purposes or chemically bound, that it does not soften the hesperidic leitmotif in matt white, underlay it with cream or the like, but only gives it something like the final touch (and perhaps increased durability)
The basic theme sketched above has been masterfully executed here, the result is a radiant, fresh summer and good mood fragrance, which is enormously valuable and, despite its simplicity, not trivial, but elegant.

Bergamote Calabria appears powerful at the beginning, then quickly loses intensity and you think you hardly feel a scent residue on your own body, you want to complain about the low durability, until then it becomes clear that the scent has not distorted, but only withdrawn. It remains present in the room for several hours anyway; on the body for at least six to eight hours as a kind of aura, which is reactivated in the case of physical exertion, such as sport, and then begins to radiate again
The bottle has the rather unusual but, in my opinion, practical size of 75 ml. I find the form beautiful and practical; I also like the honeycomb motif. However, the honeycomb grid top could be more valuable.

Nachsatz 1: The direct comparison to the (almost) homonymous Acqua-di-Parma fragrance would certainly be attractive.

Addendum to the Aqua-Allegoria series: This series by Guerlain, although not yet old, now comprises over 40 fragrances, mainly of the type of feminine light summer water with floral and/or fruity orientation. "I also tested "Mandarine Basilic", "Herba Fresca" and "Teazzurra", which fit into my baggage scheme (and don't seem too feminine either), I like them very much, even if not quite as good as this one. But what I would like to get off my chest is that I don't like this restless, even inflationary edition policy. Do the Guerlain people want their customers to test 45 fragrances? Plus the other guerlains that aren't on the show? Plus maybe some from other companies? Don't we have a job and a family? In my opinion, the fragrance companies are also there to make a certain pre-selection and accentuation and to present "their selection" to us as a suggestion for consumption. Then you can also say: "Guerlain convinces me". If in just a few years dozens, even hundreds of fragrances are launched on the market, every outline is lost, then they can also offer 1000 fragrances to mix themselves. I find it annoying.

06/22/2018

8
Pricing 8
Bottle 5
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Aolani
17 Reviews

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Aolani

Top Review 18

Perfect for the summer

Calabria - I've always wanted to go there. Just not with bergamot. I don't like them. Too pushy and strict.
I'm sniffing the bottle. Phew, that bergamottet. It takes me to overcome pressing the spray button. Ua, this is how I must walk now. All right, just one wrist. Even that's too much for me.
After some time, the fragrance becomes softer, smoother. The nose-biting bergamot says goodbye. Almost seamlessly the fragrance changes into musk. I'm not allowed to breathe on it, then it bergamotzt immediately again. No, it's ginger and cardamom. Spicy, sweetish-hot. I'm surprised at you. Really, I didn't think I'd like a perfume with so much bergamot. Bergamot always seemed to me like a strict teacher with a hair knot or like an old great-aunt you visit. One falls in love with her biscuits because she is happy, although one can hardly swallow the biscuits. In the apartment it smells strange and shortly before you leave, you discover a perfume bottle with a brownish liquid in the bathroom.
This bergamot is younger, more pleasant, less brittle. Herb, but warmly. The fragrance is well balanced by the cloudy soft velvety musk base. Do I really have to get it? I'm not sure yet. Thanks to Aqua Allegoria I make friends with bergamot. We approach slowly, with each test we move a tiny bit closer to each other.
Overall a well made fragrance, perfect for the summer.

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