L'Homme Idéal Cool Guerlain 2019

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A popular perfume by Guerlain for men, released in 2019. The scent is fresh-green. It was last marketed by LVMH.
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Main accords

Fresh

Green

Aquatic

Citrus

Sweet

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Mint

Aniseed

Bergamot

Orange

Heart Notes

Almond

Aquatic notes Neroli

Neroli

Base Notes

Ambroxan

Vetiver

Patchouli

Perfumer

Thierry Wasser

Ratings

Scent

8.0318 Ratings

Longevity

7.2288 Ratings

Sillage

6.8289 Ratings

Bottle

8.2300 Ratings

Value for money

7.5186 Ratings

Submitted by Sunnyiland, last update on 02/01/2025.

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What the fragrance is similar to

Guerlain Homme Eau de Parfum

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L'Homme Idéal Cologne

L'Homme Idéal Sport

L'Homme Idéal Eau de Toilette

Booster Eau de Toilette

Reviews

10 in-depth fragrance descriptions

12/29/2019

7
Pricing 7
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 8
Scent

Oleo
46 Reviews

Oleo

Helpful Review 3

Be Classy, Be Cool

This is a perfect, modern, new and fresh fragrance: A true and ultra-cool head turner... From Guerlain.

IMO, this is a big "punch on the table" over designer's fragrance trends.

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- Longevity: 7h +/-.

- Projection: First average (1-2h), then moderate for most of its lifetime.

- Mood: It's an invigorating, delicious and refreshing fragrance... It always suits you: It's modern. It's classy. It's cool.

- Scenario & Occasions: Always. Ideally, LHI Cool is perfect for spring and summer, but you can wear it perfectly all year round, because it's really nice on cold days, too.

---------- A delicious fougere led by mint and almond.

Do you need a new & fresh winning horse..? Something classy , modern and cool..?

- Well, here it is.

02/16/2022

8
Pricing 7
Bottle 7.5
Scent

Golcher
136 Reviews

Golcher

2

L'Homme Ideal Herbal

I'm a sucker for mint in fragrances and to be honest most of the mint oriented fragrances fail IMHO. Either their mint is too synthetic or to candy like, too fleeting or to subtle so it's been hard to find the right mint fragrance and when I first heard about L'Homme Ideal Cool it went straight into my wishlist, I was hyped because of the great track record of this line.

L'Homme Ideal Cool gets a lot of hate and not for being bad or having bad performance but because it's supposed to come out to replace one of the line's darlings, L'Homme Ideal Cologne which was discontinued. I love the Cologne version, it's just amazing and I'm fortunate enough to have one bottle so I just couldn't hate Cool for a decision that was made by Guerlain.

When I first tried Cool at a store I loved it, I was enveloped by that opening which is as much as you can get from a tester bottle and a strip but I never got to try it again. Seemed to have disappeared from every department store so I just couldn't remember exactly how it smelled, thought it was discontinued just like the one it came to replace. Could this be? Fast forward a couple of years and I found a 50ml at a discounter and I didn't even think about it, I purchased as quick as I could and I finally got it.

Cool opens with mint for sure, but it's not a sharp or synthetic mint, it's more of a herbal mint. The almond is there but not as present as Cologne, I wish it has a bit more of that almond but it's fine, you do get the hints of it now and then and I also get a some bergamot, vetiver and the patchouli however it's more of a greener version of both, Cool feels very herbal to me.

They say smells are very connected to memories and I recall when I was a kid there was a soap (shower soap) my mom used to buy, it was green and very herbal and I loved it so, needless to say I love L'Homme Ideal Cool

05/27/2024

8
Pricing 6
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 10
Scent

MrSerious96
13 Reviews

MrSerious96

1

Unique modern fresh fragrance for the summer!

L'Homme ideal Cool from Guerlain is a wonderful fresh, warm weather fragrance that is unique and very likable.

It gives you something else compared to most summer colognes. It's still fresh and citrusy, but it also has this rather unique sweet, creamy almond note that runs through the top and middle notes of the fragrance and then settles in the clean, fresh vetiver surrounded by crisp and cool metallic ambroxan that keeps the fragrance from becoming too sweet. The sweetness is also ballanced well by the citrus and mint and fennel notes that make the fragrance very refreshing and invigorating. There also are some aquatic notes, but they are not the focus of the fragrance.

This is a beautiful summer and spring fragrance that is suitable for any occassion. It's very modern in its use of ingredients and the way it's constructed.

Longevity is comendable for a summer citrus fragrance 7hr+ with moderate projection for the first 2 hours then it radiates closer to the chest.

People universally love it and are always pleasantly surprised.

I would say it's well worth the money, but is unfortunately discontinoued.
Thankfully I got myself a back-up bottle.

05/04/2019

9
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Yatagan
92 Reviews

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Yatagan

Top Review 54

Green is hope

Green is hope: as the colour of spring, as the colour of renewal in Christianity, as the colour of the prophet in Islam, as the signal colour on traffic lights, as the colour of an aspiring party. But I think even more of a novel by TC Boyle that turns the green of germinating marijuana plants and then withering again into the satirical, ironically turned descent of a hippie community. Anyway: Green also works well in advertising and so it seems to be almost a sign of the times that two particularly high-turnover brands (Davidoff and Guerlain) are launching a green men's fragrance on the market almost simultaneously.

Basically, I am sceptical about all the fragrances in the L'Homme Ideal range. EdT as well as EdP and Intense were much too almond sweet for me. Gourmands are actually a horror to me, even though I have to admit that Guerlain did not succeed badly in this case. I find the sport variant completely accidental and leave it out of consideration for further considerations
Where does L'Homme Ideal Cool (what a terrible name...) stand now in comparison to the other versions of this meanwhile extensive series (I wouldn't speak of flankers at all in view of the different orientation)?

The resemblance to the Cologne, which I consider to be extremely successful, mentioned here several times, leads a little astray, I think. The family resemblance is more apparent in the almond note, which, if you take the newer women's fragrances from Guerlain as a reference, seems to be something like the new Guerlinade. In the L'Homme Ideal series it was consistently transferred to the men's line. This has a certain internal logic and is therefore not even unsympathetic to me. Both in Cologne and in the new Cool, this almond note has been significantly reduced, is no longer as present as in EdT, EdP or Intense, and therefore no longer has a real gourmand character. There are parallels between the two fragrances (neroli, orange, bergamot) and the discreetly recognizable cologne-water components, which provide a subliminal freshness that you will not find in EdT, EdP and Intense. The clear difference between the two lighter fragrances of the series (Cologne and Cool), however, is the respective top note, which extends far into the heart note of the fragrance and blends there with the respective discreet almond note: mint and a (fortunately) distinctly restrained aquatic in Cool, grapefruit in Cologne.

One could say that there is now a L'Homme Ideal for almost every taste. For the lovers* of food leftovers in fragrances, the EdT, EdP and Intense (of varying intensity), for the lovers* of bright, cologne-like variants Cologne and Cool. It would be a shame, however, if Cologne were to be permanently removed from the programme in favour of Cool. For me, Cologne is still clearly the best and perhaps only outstanding variant.

Where is the cool in the context of the Guerlain portofolio? I see his justification as a bridge between EdT and Cologne and could also imagine that he is a real alternative for those who are looking for a summer fragrance without Hesperidia dominance. Mint is often the only really fresh alternative - and is implemented better here than in almost all other fragrances I know in this style. For me Cool is a really good fragrance, which I could imagine well in my collection, but would never prefer to cologne permanently.

07/22/2021

7
Pricing 7
Bottle 6
Sillage 6
Longevity 8
Scent

Warilol
18 Reviews

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Warilol

Top Review 45

The ideal mint?

In the search for my perfect mint fragrance I also came across this "cool" one, which should replace the ever-popular L'Homme Idéal Cologne from the L'Homme Ideal series. Why Guerlain has made this step, I can not really understand, because I like the Cologne very much, but obviously it was probably due to poor sales figures.

I have tested myself through many colleagues, Aqua Allegoria Herba Fresca or for example the Love the way you Taste, just to name a few examples. Both also great fragrances, the mint was very authentically presented, but in the end I always faced the same problem: the more realistic and straightforward the mint was conceived, the more boring I found the wearing experience of the fragrance in the end. I've come to the conclusion that while it's exciting and soothing to have that scent note in a perfume like that, I just don't want to wear it. Do you know this feeling? You find a fragrance super exciting, but at the end of the day, it's just not really practical as a perfume per se.

That's exactly where L'Homme Idéal Cool comes into play, because here the mint is packed in the conglomerate in such a way that it gives an invigorating freshness, but is not as authentically staged as in the other fragrances tested by me. This may be a negative argument for one or the other, keyword synthetics, but for me it works very well here!

To this well-known Neroli almond, which we already found in L'Homme Idéal Cologne, joins here namely a citrus mint, which gives the overall picture a tangy, almost limonade-like, slightly sweet touch, without being cheesy and too synthetic. The DNA of the Ideal series, especially the Colognes, lives on here so noticeably.

This green freshness is rounded off by a vetiver beckoning from the far distance, Ambroxan I want to perceive here explicitly not. H/S are not particularly strong, 5-6h on the skin, on textiles correspondingly longer, but for me perfectly okay.

I put me at this point something out of the window and claim that this fragrance is a hybrid of L'Homme Idéal Cologne and Guerlain Homme Eau de Parfum, although the influence of the latter appears significantly lower, but in my opinion quite present.

So who is looking for a green and modern-wearable mint fragrance and not immediately expects a realistic representation of that component, because this one can definitely test times. For me, "Cool" is a real insider tip, which is absolutely lost in the L'Homme Ideal series.

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