For a long time, we have been sneaking around each other, or rather, I around him - like a cat that wants to play a bit, or better: wants to smell a bit.
It wasn't like perhaps elsewhere, where you stand in a store and many things whisper to you from the shelves, "Buy me, buy me, buy me!"
No, my Guerlain is more of a gentleman and gallant, reserved, unobtrusive, and at the same time sustainable. For example, it doesn't leave your mind so quickly if you like this fragrance direction, and the person in question would honestly have little to criticize about it.
At some point, I received a miniature of it, shortly after a sample. I felt it was too precious to open the miniature, but the sample had to be tried at the very first opportunity - and it immediately swept me away, or better: carried me away and turned me around.
"Hours later" nearly the same picture, unchanged, because my Guerlain has substance, is profound, enduring, not hypocritical or superficial, doesn't pretend to be something it is not, but is what it is, namely a loyal companion with a subtle presence - actually exactly what I am looking for.
I generally like this type very much, namely those that don't start with a fireworks display just to draw attention to themselves and then later fizzle out in a stuffy, smoky way, for example.
My Guerlain behaves quite the opposite:
When you spray it on, it almost formally retreats, envelops you, and is immediately there again when you seek it. A light breeze is enough for it to draw attention to itself again, whispering "I am with you!" My Guerlain, however, is completely invisible, and yet you react to it, even turning around again, smiling directly at it. It has already happened 4 times that strangers have approached me about it just like that.
All of this feels cheerful, almost carries you by itself, this gossamer, silky, sometimes warm veil around me, as if it were already lifting gravity.