L'Instant de Guerlain 2003 Eau de Parfum

L'Instant de Guerlain (Eau de Parfum) by Guerlain
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L'Instant de Guerlain (Eau de Parfum) is a popular perfume by Guerlain for women and was released in 2003. The scent is floral-powdery. The longevity is above-average. It is being marketed by LVMH. Pronunciation
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Main accords

Floral
Powdery
Sweet
Fruity
Oriental

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
Mandarin orangeMandarin orange BergamotBergamot
Heart Notes Heart Notes
JasmineJasmine MagnoliaMagnolia Common elderCommon elder IrisIris Ylang-ylangYlang-ylang
Base Notes Base Notes
HoneyHoney MuskMusk VanillaVanilla BenzoinBenzoin AmberAmber

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
8.0486 Ratings
Longevity
8.4390 Ratings
Sillage
7.3368 Ratings
Bottle
8.1363 Ratings
Value for money
7.349 Ratings
Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 24.04.2023.
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18 in-depth fragrance descriptions
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Palonera
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Palonera
Palonera
Top Review 63  
Summer of Twenty-Three
November grey was outside the windows - the sky was cloudy, the windows were richly beeped.
All day long he had been crying, the sky, had frozen my skin, my soul finally too.
Looking for a little warmth, for light and comfort I found soft wool, cuddly socks, quite unexpectedly finally also you: a small, flat bottle, untouched, filled, it seemed to me, with sun gold.
"L'Instant de Guerlain", 16 years old
It was the hottest summer in living memory, in the memory of a pigeon - never before, as far as I could remember, were values measured in the Ruhr area as those in the summer of 2003.
They left the 30 degree mark unimpressed, danced around the 40, turned the drop of sweat upside down and killed the air conditioning in the ICE that brought me to him, to him, the unknown and yet so close to me, to Berlin
We had met each other four months before, met in some chat, strange or new, had said "Hello!" and "How are you?", what they say at the beginning of time.
I was not looking for more than a little pastime, a chat here and there.
And now, that morning, I was on my way to see him - his image in my head, the heart in my left shoe.

His eyes were blue, turquoise blue like the sky over Lusatia, like the water in the quarry pond.
We lay hand in hand there on our backs, our skin glued together by sun milk, breaded by the sand.
We fed each other with candied fruit, with apricot jam, then we spiffed and kissed them away.
He buried his nose in Coco's "Mademoiselle", my head lay on the sun gold of his skin.
We watched the sun set in amber and apricot, wrapped ourselves in the black velvet of the night, told each other about the stars and the stones of our time.
We shared hours, days, weeks - for two whole years.
When he left, I wore "Allure".

"L'Instant de Guerlain" beams me back to this year, this summer, to this man.
Sixteen years have passed since then - the scent lets me bridge them with just one breath.
It carries the sun of those days, its fragrance and warmth, carefree and sensual and decidedly feminine.
A fragrance, twinned with the Chanels, marked by the dawning of a new era - not unknown with its sun-warm fruits, with its bouquet of dense, rich flowers, with its honey resin, but no longer loud, not as powerfully opulent as "Roma" and "Venezia", or "Laguna" for that matter.
"L'Instant de Guerlain" is softer, quieter, softer too, spotted at least, not sprayed on my winter skin.
And comforting.
As much comforting as the girlfriend warm arm.
Not just the day the last rose broke.
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Saemm
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Saemm
Saemm
Top Review 34  
Confusing
What is wrong with me???
There was this little kid. Well, "woman's scent." Not my thing anyway. It's been lying around for so long. So spray it on so it's ticked off, too. Pshhhhh. Hm, sweet. But nice and powdery. And kind of beautiful. Really beautiful. ??? Wtf? Hours later it's still beautiful. Kind of not mine at all. It's beautiful, though. So cuddly wrapped up. Powder cloudy, feminine. Really, I do.
Next day: okay, now look, if I diesel myself for the day. I can't like him all day long, he'll be too much for me after a few hours at the latest. Sweet female plörre. But...most imaginable doll...in the background is a beautiful spice, which offers the sweet pleasant Paroli. And this powdery... a dream!
After on the third day the little sample was completely emptied, looked in the www for the cheapest offer.

To be on the safe side, I asked my perfume-test hating friend: I don't smell anything. That smells like you, like your skin.
:-)))))

I can't name individual grades with the best will in the world. All the notes work perfectly together. This sweetness is already thick syrupy, but not "babbic" - so no LVEB or something. Apparently the silage is also rather small, no wobbling cloud around me.
On my skin it really lasts at least 9 hours, on clothes for days. I don't have a pain threshold there anyway. And if my friend already does not use the bad word "intrusive" and sooo pronounces a nice compliment to a fragrance, then nothing can go wrong any more!
Next week I'll have the pulle here with me and then I'll indulge that the rind is cracking ;-)

And if I really overdo it, I get to hear it immediately :D
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8
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9
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8.5
Scent
BelAmi
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BelAmi
BelAmi
Top Review 18  
Golden powder!
A small splash of this golden yellow liquid on the back of my hand and I am amazed: I had feared baby powder (after some comments here), but light golden yellow powder with a touch of freshness (probably the Mandrine..I almost thought it was a lemon..) blows around my wrist, where sometime in the base a quite adult, serious note is added. Not babymama-like, not dandy, especially no granny scent. The fragrance continues to develop into fine powder, not dense and heavy, but bright and warm. A sweet honey note accompanies the tangerine powder. It makes the fragrance appear soft and modern.

Honey in perfume is usually very difficult for me. I'm sure I can think of a handful of perfumes that I can't stand. I like this honey very much (enormous that it is so small listed in the fragrance pyramid ..it seems so striking to me..).

A scent that dims many a cold winter day with a bright, warm glow. It's nice that he fell almost literally into my hands on the Guerlain shelf some time ago!
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6
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10
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Centifolias
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Centifolias
Centifolias
Very helpful Review 26  
My guardian angel ...
...he'd smell like L'instant.
Many know the feeling of having had a guardian angel in certain moments of life.
And then there are those phases when you feel abandoned and alone. Where you can hardly rest from worry.
And wondering, where's my guardian angel?
It's always there, even if you can't feel it.

When I spray L'Instant, I feel safety, security, protection.
It envelops me and acts as a shield against all the outside attacks. He calms me down. He's an angel.

I owe the new purchase to my daughter. He appeared at her birth and at her baptism my mother gave him to me.
I used it for four years, then we lost each other. And I forgot him.
The other day, when a perfumery saleswoman went to look for something in the store for me and took forever, I had a lot of time to look around.
Then I saw a pink bottle of bees from Guerlain. Not suspecting that this was the new edition of L'istant, I sprayed.
It was right there.
A feeling of security, warmth and confidence.
I remembered and looked at the name, there it was: L'istant.

The saleswoman returned unsuccessfully from her search and asked me how I would like the scent she had sprayed on my right arm before. It was the new scent (Joy) from Dior. He'd turn out so wonderfully soft on me.
I explained to her that what she smelled of me was my left arm with L'istant.
She was quite surprised, she had classified this rather old-fashioned/oldbacken (she was very young) how wonderfully it developed nevertheless.
Unfortunately I already had so much in my shopping basket that I could not quite overcome myself to add my recovered L'istant.
"When it's autumn/winter, I'll buy it. I still have enough" (you know all these desperate attempts to talk your way out of buying a perfume under rational aspects, these always fail)
But I stood firm, didn't take it and went to the cash register (full of pride to have won the fight, but with my nose on my arm)
At the cash register, my daughter joined me.
She embraced me spontaneously (very rarely within the puberty) and shouted enthusiastically: "You smell like mum!
Of course, this fragrance accompanied her for the first 4 years of her life.
Again she said, "oh, you smell sooo good, what's that?"
My fight was lost. I left the checkout line, went to the shelf, grabbed a 50 ml bottle, and started again.
"Good decision, this is Mama",
said my daughter and hugged me again.
Yes, a good decision.
This scent is my guardian angel.
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Anettmarian
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Anettmarian
Anettmarian
Less helpful Review 14  
Skeletons, old wives, a scent and a probably soon coming shit storm.....
My biology teacher always wore a perfume that is still unknown to me today. As a child, this fragrance clearly belonged to biology and the skeleton, which was always a little lost and eerily standing in the corner.
When years later I encountered this scent again, I was irritated and immediately thought of Willi, the skeleton.
Fragrances bring back memories...
My first encounter with L'Instant took place in a clothing store.
An elderly lady had a similar taste to me and had grabbed the sweater seconds before me and disappeared in the changing room dragging a penetrating scent cloud behind her.
She decided against the part and of course I was there immediately.
That sweater was a dream, if only there hadn't been that foul smell.
For me, it was the epitome of an old wives' perfume, unfortunately I bought the piece, but never wore it, because the scent was still present after washing.
Years later, as an absolute Guerlain fan instead of Insolence, I accidentally ordered L'Instant and from then on the child had a name.
I would like to analyze what is disturbing me so massively, but I can't do it
Jasmine? Amber? Benzoin? The composition as such?
I can't understand why this scent is so popular, it just makes me sick
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Carlitos01Carlitos01 2 years ago
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9
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Scent
A recipe for rice powder, amber, citrus and flowers. Perfection can be quite simple after all.
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