L'Homme Idéal Cool Guerlain 2019

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.