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L'Art & La Matière

Embruns d'Ylang Guerlain 2019

7.4 / 10 229 Ratings

A perfume by Guerlain for women and men, released in 2019. The scent is floral-sweet. It is being marketed by LVMH.
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Main accords

Floral

Sweet

Creamy

Spicy

Powdery

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Salty notes

Bergamot

Heart Notes

Ylang-ylang

Jasmine sambac Clove

Clove

Base Notes

Vanilla

Iris

Patchouli

Perfumer

Thierry Wasser

Ratings

Scent

7.4229 Ratings

Longevity

7.7181 Ratings

Sillage

7.2181 Ratings

Bottle

8.5178 Ratings

Value for money

6.164 Ratings

Submitted by Juli11 · last update on 12/02/2025.

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Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the L'Art & La Matière collection.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Ylang in Gold Eau de Parfum

Prodigieux - Le Parfum

Quand Vient la Pluie Eau de Parfum

Sans Escale

Ylang Ylang

L'Astre

Reviews

8 in-depth fragrance descriptions

05/23/2025

ClaireV
969 Reviews

ClaireV

1

Oh no, I've done it again

Embruns d’Ylang is a humid tropical ylang, encased in dark cocoa and earthy tuber. I sprayed it on in an airport once and wandered around for ages wondering if, at some point in my airport-and-Xanax-induced haze, I’d cocked up and sprayed Black Orchid on myself. I try not to do that, in general.

But sometimes you don’t realize that the perfume company has put Black Orchid in bottles named something else, so you put it on, walk around, and then boom! You realize that you’ve been Black Orchid-ed, whether you wanted to be or not. Embruns d’Ylang is one such Black Orchid-by-stealth perfumes. So is Maremma (Tiziana Terenzi), Precious Oud (Van Cleef & Arpels) and, to a lesser extent, Café Tuberosa (Atelier Cologne). If you know one, you know them all – huge, stuffy white florals made even more excessively rich with chocolate, earthy tuber, suntan oil, cucumber, and truffles (both kinds).

Embruns d’Ylang is more elegant, I’ll give it that. But it’s Black Orchid all the same.

01/04/2025

4.5Scent 5Longevity 6Sillage

DRKSHDW
138 Reviews

DRKSHDW

1

WHERE LUXURY MEETS DULLNESS...

Picture this: a gloomy day at an Alabama beach, with your chain-smoking aunties vacationing stylishly at a three-star hotel casino. There's a peculiar, nostalgic aroma that’s part mothballs, part menthol-like scent from the ylang-ylang, mixed with "Guerlinade"...

This fragrance feels as if the perfumer, Thierry Wasser, revisited old ideas and materials. It could easily pass as a summer flanker to Shalimar, with a clear resemblance to the Souffle line — particularly Souffle de Lumière.

The bergamot and vanilla notes take a backseat here, allowing the ylang-ylang to take center stage, but without being overly radiant/solar. The patchouli note is impeccable — clean, expertly executed, and balanced by a subtle salt note that adds depth to the composition. The vanilla, unlike in some of Guerlain's other creations, is not overly sweet.

The fragrance seems to tip its hat to Guerlain's legendary "guerlanade" with vintage Shalimar-esque citrus, alluding to a glorious past, though the present reality seems to fall short of that grandeur. This fragrance ends up being regretfully forgettable, with poor longevity that hardly justifies its high price tag. It’s a missed opportunity.

08/07/2019

9.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Sweetsmell75
210 Reviews

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Sweetsmell75

Top Review 70

Dream-Me-Away Fragrance

The most beautiful dreams are dreamed with open eyes!
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Embruns d'Ylang has pleasantly surprised me ... the scent creates such a wonderful tropical feeling for me ... and all without coconut *amazed*
I dream myself away to tropical picture-perfect beaches ... the ones from advertisements - photos - movies.
A trip there has not yet been granted to me ... but never say never!
However, one should really like Ylang-Ylang, otherwise it won't work with the dreaming ;)

About the scent:
The new Guerlain starts with a very dominant, but beautiful Ylang-Ylang note.
Bergamot completely disappears on my skin, but that doesn't bother me.
Soon, mineral tones join in, not metallic and not salty, but rather sandy-dry, as I perceive them.
The clove can stay away from me, I luckily don't smell it here and can't imagine it fitting in. But that's just my personal opinion!
Instead, there’s now a slightly waxy jasmine note that never disturbs but simply completes the floral impression of the fragrance.
At the latest, when the iris powder dusts everything and Guerlain's finest vanilla unites with patchouli into such a harmonious vanilla cream, you are captivated by this scent!
The base is simply beautifully dreamy :)
A fragrance for the whole year (I couldn't conduct a 30-degree test due to the summer strike, but I can imagine that the mineral tones would come into their own even better then!)
The longevity is over 8 hours. A fine scent aura surrounds me for the first few hours before Embruns d'Ylang becomes close to the skin.
I perceive the scent as more made for us women ... but brave men are welcome to test it :)
The bottles in this Exclusif series are beautiful and high-quality and fortunately now available with regular sprayers.
However, I chose the refill station and the 20 ml travel bottle with these lovely leather cases. It doesn’t always have to be a large bottle, and they are also very pretty to look at, space-saving, and practical :)

Conclusion:
Ylang meets iris powder & mineral tones!
The finest vanilla cream skillfully rounds it all off!
*Dream-Me-Away Fragrance*

Pssst ... testing recommendation for all who love Ylang-Ylang :)

A big thank you to the lovely Parfuma, who got me the fragrance since Sweetie couldn't wait until the next Oberpollinger visit!

03/24/2021

8Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Friesin
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Friesin

Top Review 67

Midlife Crisis and Pasta Eating

A few years ago, facing a looming midlife crisis, I introduced 'pasta night' among my friends. Every 19th of the month* - no matter what day of the week it falls on - I serve pasta with sauce for all friends who happen to have the time and desire. At a certain age, it's hardly possible to meet friends spontaneously. You have to make an appointment, because children, work, back exercises (!), elderly parents, whatever, prevent us from meeting up easily.
Where I come from, the back doors of houses are always open when someone is home. As a visitor, you just barge in, sit down on the kitchen bench, maybe help with folding laundry, and enjoy community without having to schedule an appointment in your phone, uncomplicated.
The aforementioned 'pasta night' is my adaptation of the open door. I am not a gifted cook, but a tasty pasta sauce is no problem and
frozen in large quantities. Fresh pasta from the fridge is ready in 5 minutes, so it doesn't matter if 5 or 20 people come. In my circle of friends, the date has established itself; whoever can come, comes and is welcome to bring a guest. It's a great opportunity to meet old and new people, stress-free and relaxed, without fuss. A bit like it used to be. No matter how big the group is, a loud hustle and bustle upon arrival and eating is followed by a rich, lazy, wine-soaked relaxation among nice people, right in the middle of a tightly scheduled everyday life, lovely!

So, how does she now transition from pasta night to 'L'Embruns d'Ylang' by Guerlain....
Thierry Wasser has tried to dust off Ylang-Ylang with this fragrance creation (back exercises). He wanted to give the 'retro-Chanel5-Ylang' a new context, in this case with a salty note; l'embruns means spray water from the sea.
Right from the start, Ylang shines brightly in the room, accompanied by a host of floral friends, and if it were to continue like this, the party could tip, but it doesn't. Free from any affectation, Ylang, cloves, and jasmine reveal themselves as pleasant, considerate guests who enrich the evening with their presence and fit perfectly into the group.
You understand what T. Wasser intended, because even though I personally can't smell the salt, it seems to tame and refresh the floral group. Who would have thought I would ever say this about a Ylang-clove fragrance - but this one is truly successful. The best part of the pasta evening... um, the fragrance is for me when people, with a glass of wine in hand, satisfied, full, with loosened belt buckles, chat and let the evening wind down. And just like that, 'L'Embruns d'Ylang' towards the end - with the help of patchouli and vanilla - is warm, rich, complex, wonderfully unpretentious and uncomplicated.

I thank Turandot, without whom I probably wouldn’t have given it a chance....
*Date changed by the editor :-)

05/22/2019

9.5Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

Chanelle
752 Reviews

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Chanelle

Top Review 33

Dreamily Soft Exotic with Neo-Guerlinade

I was uncertain when I heard about a new Ylang interpretation by Thierry Wasser: Should I hope to encounter another floral sensation like Mahora/Mayotte? Or a (overpriced) reissue of the best of all Aqua Allegorias - Ylang-Vanille? Or will it turn out to be completely different than expected, as has often been the case with the members of the Art et Matiere series?
Both, is the answer.
Embruns d'Ylang is all that, and much more: It has a cooling powderiness like in Quand vient la pluie, while also drawing on 190 Ans (almond honey/orange blossom) - both symptomatic of the newer representatives of the Art et Matiere line, Mon Precieux Nectar, and also found in other Guerlain fragrances of recent years.
But memories of Mahora and AAVY are also kept alive, through a sea-fresh, non-stuffy, yet creamy floral Ylang presence.
The scent is supposedly a one shot, as TW said he could not guarantee that he could maintain this quality. And like with Parure, it would mean: "If the scent can no longer be produced, then it simply won't exist anymore."
That would be tragic, because it is wonderful. Finely balanced, light, yet still long-lasting.
Edit: Picture is in my photo album!

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