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Un Dimanche à la Campagne Guerlain 2016

8.1 / 10 200 Ratings

A popular perfume by Guerlain for women and men, released in 2016. The scent is fresh-green. It is being marketed by LVMH.
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Main accords

Fresh

Green

Citrus

Spicy

Floral

Fragrance Notes

Orange blossom

White musk

Bergamot

Herbs

Perfumer

Thierry Wasser

Ratings

Scent

8.1200 Ratings

Longevity

6.6168 Ratings

Sillage

6.1167 Ratings

Bottle

7.4154 Ratings

Value for money

6.739 Ratings

Submitted by Rivegauche · last update on 11/16/2025.

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Reviews

8 in-depth fragrance descriptions

11/07/2019

10Scent 7Longevity 5Sillage

K84
4 Reviews

K84

Amazingly good handled take on a cologne by Thierry Wasser

Amazingly good handled take on a cologne by Thierry Wasser to represent a Sunday at the countryside. Sparkling citrus on top brilliantly mixed in a very simple way with herbal and green notes and a musky woody base. It perfectly represents a spring Sunday enjoying a tea with family and friends at your countryside house.

06/24/2019

10Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

SchatzSucher
107 Reviews

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SchatzSucher

Top Review 57

It could be so beautiful....

Sometimes you really go crazy. You get samples here and there to test, some you like, some you don’t, and occasionally you find a fragrance that sparks great enthusiasm and triggers that all-too-familiar and dangerous "Want-It-But-Best-Yesterday" feeling.
That’s how it was for me with Un Dimanche à la Campagne.
Some time ago, a small vial with a little bit of this fragrance came to me. Those who know me a bit, know that the term orange blossom immediately makes my eyes flicker with excitement, accompanied by trembling hands and rising blood pressure from joyful anticipation ;-)

So far, hardly any fragrance with orange blossom has disappointed me, and Sunday in the countryside did not disappoint either; on the contrary.
What wafts towards me when I spray it is pure joy, zest for life, summer freshness, and instantly I find myself wearing that silly grin you have when you are smitten by something, in this case, a fragrance.

According to the fragrance pyramid, the scent is quite simply constructed. That doesn’t matter at all. I don’t need a bunch of wildly composed, highly complicated components that might result in a single cacophony and leave me overwhelmed.
No, that is definitely not the case here.
Un Dimanche à la Campagne, what a name... very aptly chosen, I actually associate it with a day in the countryside, fresh clear air, the scent of aromatic herbs and citrus fruits, a cool breeze, and slowing down.
It begins with a slightly bitter citrus note, bergamot, which is presented here in a finely bitter-sour way. Soon, herbal-green impressions make themselves known, exerting a certain cooling effect. I think I perceive mint, possibly a bit of tarragon, and a hint of lavender.
Accompanying this is the beautiful orange blossom with its unmistakable aroma, bright and cheerful.
The whole thing is rounded off with a bit of musk, which gives the fragrance a nice clean note.
In terms of longevity, the scent is surprisingly good; it doesn’t need to hide with a solid 6-7 hours, even though it is made in the style of classic colognes, which usually have a much shorter longevity.
Overall, it remains quite subtle, which is pleasant for summer fragrances. The heavy hitters can take a break too.

The fragrance does not have a complex development; it remains linear overall, which does not bother me in the slightest. I sometimes find it nice when a fragrance smells just as it did at the beginning by the end. It may appear a bit greener towards the end, but not very noticeably.

Un Dimanche à la Campagne has hit the mark for me, or should I say hit the green?
So much so that I have put the fragrance on my wish list and really want to have it. But the big "but" unfortunately cannot be avoided.

The fragrance is not available in Germany; Guerlain has not intended it for Germany.
Guerlain France does not ship to Germany.
So what should one do? I can’t concoct such a fragrance myself, even though I have made facial cream before.

Here in the souk, no bottle is offered (Okay, I can understand that. Whoever has it doesn’t want to part with it).

Now, I had a vacation last week and was visiting friends in Rhineland-Palatinate. The Alsace is just around the corner. So I practically begged for a day trip to Strasbourg. You would think I could find it there; it’s a big city and in France.
Yes, what a joke, I walked my feet off in Strasbourg. Neither at Galeries Lafayette, which is usually well-stocked with Guerlain, nor at two or three other perfumeries could I find it. "Non, je regrette..." Yes, I regret it too...

Well, then it’s just not meant to be. But I was disappointed.
Un Dimanche à la Campagne remains on my wish list; I am patient and can control myself. Eventually, it will surely come to me when the right time is here.
I will even accept that the fragrance is only available in the 250 ml family size. I’ll manage to finish that.

So that I don’t have to wallow in disappointment for too long, I managed to snag a bottle of Remix Cologne Anniversary Edition from 2017 at Müller in Speyer the following day. A nice substitute, and it didn’t strain my wallet too much. It comforts me throughout the summer.

However, I would like to note that I am indeed in the mood to drive to Guerlain/LVMH and give out a big slap for making it so difficult for average customers to acquire beloved fragrances.

With this delightful summer scent, Mr. Wasser has truly created something beautiful, and I have decided to give this fragrance a full score because my taste has been perfectly met here.
Tonight, I just sprayed the very last bit from the sample vial and am grinning beautifully to myself....

Addendum 24.12.2020:
Now it’s finally mine :-))

03/16/2021

9Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

Pollita
386 Reviews

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Pollita

Top Review 67

In My Grandparents' Garden

Out into the fresh air! That has always been my motto. Even as a small child, I was constantly drawn outside, no matter what the weather was like. Often to the dismay of my parents, as my clothes could get quite dirty in the rain. I could play outside for hours and entertain myself. Of course, the best times were in summer.

Whenever we visited my paternal grandparents and it was spring or even summer, I was filled with joy. They had a huge garden that bordered a flower meadow stretching to the edge of the forest. A paradise for little Polly to play in. I remember the lush green, the numerous blossoms before the meadow was eventually mowed, small streams near the forest, and so much more. With the first sniff of Guerlain's Un Dimanche à la Campagne, I was immediately transported back there. This scent is so wonderfully fresh, so beautifully floral, and has a simply enchanting green that literally shines.

Through my beloved orange blossom, I quickly find access to this green and fresh treasure. I am also taken by the delicate musk base, which, just like the opening with bergamot, reminds me a bit of another Guerlain that I already own. Namely, Aqua Allegoria Bergamote Calabria. Un Dimanche à la Campagne is certainly the more elegant, mature scent of the two. I also think of my grandfather with this fragrance, as it carries a typically masculine herbal note that reminds me of my grandpa's aftershave. How it annoyed me when he pressed his wet kisses on my cheek and I could smell a hint of his aftershave all day long. However, I was only bothered by that for about as long as it took for him to show me his new baby bunnies. My grandfather raised rabbits in his garden. And occasionally, I was allowed to choose one of my own and take it home.

Un Dimanche à la Campagne is a wonderfully balanced composition of fragrance notes that immediately brings to mind blooming summer meadows. For me, this delicate cologne revives numerous childhood memories. How I would love to play in my grandparents' garden again and run through the blooming meadows.

I find the scent not only a bit more refined than the Aqua Allegoria I mentioned but also somewhat more masculine. The herbal note, which makes me think of aftershave from the 70s or 80s, is just as much a part of the rounded fragrance profile as the delicate musk note. I recommend friends of AA Bergamote Calabria to take a closer look at this Guerlain as well. It is absolutely beautiful, and I wouldn't rule out wanting to own it myself someday.

A big thank you to Knopfnase for the testing opportunity.

03/26/2020

8Scent 6Longevity 6Sillage

FvSpee
323 Reviews

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FvSpee

Top Review 53

CoViD Comments, Eighth Piece: Lourmarin

In times of lockdown, a lot is being read, which is fundamentally not a bad thing. What is bought is what is thick. But also what fits thematically. As I hear, the printing presses are running hot for a new edition of "The Plague" by Albert Camus. The novel, published in 1947, describes - against a real historical background that serves more as a backdrop for a strongly symbolic and philosophically charged narrative - the initially slow, then increasingly rapid outbreak of the plague in the 1940s in the then French (now Algerian) city of Oran in North Africa and the various ways different types of people deal with the epidemic and the constant danger of death.

The novel is reportedly in such demand in Germany right now that antiquarian editions are being listed on eBay for several thousand euros. Isn't it available online? I checked my library, and I actually have the work, albeit in Romanian (where "plague" is "ciuma"), as part of a Romanian complete edition of Camus. However, I haven't read it. That's a bit crazy, because since my teenage years, which are quite a while ago now, I have had a fascination for, or rather an affection for, Camus, and yet I have hardly read any of his works, nor any proper biography. That really needs to be remedied.

By the way, Camus was really good-looking; if I were interested in men, I might have fallen for him (this is also a contribution to gender equality, that even male philosophers and writers can be judged first by their nice behind!). Whether his works are really so good that he deserved the Nobel Prize in Literature he received (some awards are rather embarrassing in hindsight), and whether he is truly world-class as a philosopher, is up for debate, but I am quite sure he was a really cool guy and quite likable. His health was compromised like Kafka's (tuberculosis), his love life was probably quite wild, French and an artist after all. Politically, he was a leftist, but he sharply criticized Soviet communism as inhumane and totalitarian since the 1940s, which not only annoyed Sartre but also led to speculations that before his fatal car accident in 1960 (there was something with the tires), Russian tourists who had come to admire the Gothic cathedrals might have had a large wrench in their luggage alongside their travel guides. A convinced atheist, he advocated universal love as a remedy in the face of the deep absurdity of existence and might have gotten along quite well with the carpenter's son from Nazareth.

Born in French North Africa, following his biography and the teachings of his philosophical mentor, Camus was a lover of the sun and an apostle of the Mediterranean, settling in Lourmarin in the Vaucluse department of Provence. On my (long overdue) honeymoon many years ago, I had the opportunity to visit the village (which officially belongs to the club of "the most beautiful villages in France") and pay my respects at the poet's grave there.

"Un Dimanche à la Campagne" means "A Sunday in the Countryside," and this countryside is not Brittany, not Champagne, not Burgundy, it is Provence. This Sunday outing leads into the southern sun, but not under the scorching and burning, rather under a still friendly June sun, as welcoming as the philosophy of the great poet. It is an early summer Sunday, perhaps in Lourmarin.

The fragrance starts with a bright, yellow (but never sharp, pointy, rather) round, full, and valuable citrus with minimal light green undertones. Over the next half hour, greener citrus and grassy notes come to the forefront, and after one to two hours, "Un Dimanche à la Campagne" (for the name, there are nine points) can be described more as a herbal than a citrus scent, but the development unfolds clearly, logically, and naturally from itself, without appearing artificially composed to surprise. Like a stream in the landscape that flows just as it flows. Above all this lies a gentle, soft, barely perceptible, creamy-musk veil, as if a light mist were hovering over the landscape. And this image remains for several hours.

The Sunday in the countryside is a fragrance of almost escapist-unreal beauty that enchants and invites you to enjoy the dream images of a more beautiful world. Therefore, I can understand those who have given it 9 and even 10 points. However, if one is to surrender to the scent unreservedly, one must really be ready to dream oneself into an empty projection surface (with the risk of perhaps dozing off a bit out of boredom).

For me to have given it ten, something beautiful, no matter how insignificant, would have had to happen on this outing: the sight of a quirky owl while having pastis in the village tavern, the captured wink of a smiling young country beauty, or a suppressed tear at Albert's grave. Such things do not happen on this Sunday: the village tavern and the cemetery are closed, the girls are at home. Only sun, flowers, the babbling of the stream, mist, and the vast, vast sky.

06/21/2018

9.5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Fittleworth
89 Reviews

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Top Review 45

A Sunday in the Countryside, just like in the old days...!

Take a seat, Mr. Jeheimrat!
Nice to see you visiting my little salon again.
How is your esteemed health?
Everything as usual? Haircut? Shave, perhaps?
But of course, but right away... Korianke is always at your service!

Well, this is indeed a lovely little weather for a stroll, if you allow me that remark, Mr. Jeheimrat.
We haven't had so much sun all at once for a long time.
And then so pleasantly... wonderful!

So, now please turn your noble head to the other side, so I can work better with the scissors... regarding the sideburns...
Where was I?

Ah yes, sun, summer, blue skies.
Yes, I cannot deny that! Mr. Jeheimrat knows, it is a little passion of mine to sit in my small garden and listen to the birds chirping. I could do that for hours...
Korianke, I always tell myself, Korianke, one does not need much to be happy. So be content, I always say...
A bit of sun, a bit of green, a cozy hammock, and a cup of coffee. What more do you need?

A nice cup of coffee, Mr. Jeheimrat, may I offer you a cup?
Cream?
Sugar?
Please, yes, please right away...

You see, that's how it is with happiness. Everyone is running after it, but no one stops to look where happiness actually is. And everything is croaking all around until there is no understanding left in the world.
What do you mean...?
Yes, I see it the same way.
A bit quieter, a bit less hectic...

I have decided not to participate in all this hustle anymore. I still want to enjoy a bit of life!
That's why I also told Trudchen, Trudchen, I said, we need to slow down our lives.
But she looked at me, my dear.

She just asked me if she should bake the gooseberry pie slowly now... that cheeky rabbit!
A lovely gooseberry pie, Mr. Jeheimrat...
May I offer you a piece? Freshly made...
With cream?

Where was I?
Ah yes, slowing down.
Well, I find it works best for me - now please stretch your nose up a bit so I can get to that heroic chin - when I am in nature.
When everything is so green and smells so good.
That's right, Mr. Jeheimrat, I completely agree with you.

Yes, green and summer always go hand in hand. I don’t need a beach; a bit of forest or at least a park is enough for me.
Green... well, anything green, like trees and such, always smells so wonderful.

Just a moment, your hairdressing apron has slipped, let me fix that for you, otherwise, the fine linen trousers will get stained... and that would not be in the spirit of the occasion, as they say.

Where was I...?
Ah yes, greenery and fragrance.
Do you also find that green scents, which radiate a bit of calm, always remind you of a Sunday in summer?
Yes?
You too...?

Exactly, that's how it is! So after lunch, when everything has become a bit drowsy...
When you can hardly keep your eyes open because everything is so wonderfully warm and peaceful, and the birds are quietly chirping and the bees are buzzing over the little flowers...
And then when the sun shines on the flower beds in the garden and makes the grass sparkle like a little gemstone... I see, Mr. Jeheimrat knows exactly what I mean.
There is always a scent of all those herbs wafting up and settling over everything.
Wonderful, I can only say, wonderful!

What do you think, Mr. Jeheimrat...?
It should be bottled, I agree with you...!
That would be something, wouldn’t it...?

Mr. Jeheimrat wouldn’t believe it, but it actually exists.
It’s a little French water.
They named it "Ünn Dimangksch alla Kampannje." It means "A Sunday in the Countryside," and it has exactly that kind of charm.

I just recently got it from a good friend. An inconspicuous bottle, you can see right away that it’s not loud or intrusive.
Oh, and it’s such a fabulous perfume...
You see, as it opens, the top note - as we connoisseurs call it - has a bit of berry note. Okay, it’s not spectacular, but then a mint comes in that is quite sharp.
But it’s subtly integrated, it doesn’t disturb, but provides a wonderful clear contrast. This is the most beautiful thing about this water - it is so clear, so fresh, truly transparent.

What do you think, Mr. Jeheimrat...?
No, it is certainly not a contradiction when the berry note and the mint come together. It is actually rounded off by orange blossom, which prevents everything from becoming sharp and unpleasant.
You can tell how it could have become sharp, but it doesn’t turn out that way as one might fear. In the end!

You see, regarding the herbs that are mixed in, in my humble opinion, there is also a bit of sage in there. Rosemary is certainly included as well.
Lemon balm should also be among them, someone whispered that to me who knows about such things.
I can’t swear to basil, but it would be conceivable...

No worries, it stays that way. Herbal, fresh, just as if you were getting a light breeze in the garden around late afternoon.
I am enchanted!

Yes, well, I have perceived the mint with the berry note as the main note all along. It’s a wonderful aroma, you can believe me!
And then it lies so comfortably on a bed of musk. Thank goodness not too much, and thank goodness not too heavy. No, I assure you, there is no musk trail. It is subtle and it stays subtle.
I always tell myself, Korianke, I always say, what good is the finest perfume if you knock everything around you with it?
It doesn’t suit a gentleman of the world...

What do you think, Mr. Jeheimrat...?
Yes, yes, the longevity is quite good. Trudchen still sniffed this water on me six hours later... she was enchanted.
And when Trudchen says the perfume is a cloud, then you can count on it, I give you my word!
This stuff is truly absolutely gentlemanly!
And refreshing, it is so refreshing...

So, if you could just turn your character head to the other side for a moment... I’ll take your little coat off now, there can’t be any more splashes.

But yes, Mr. Jeheimrat. You know me! I almost suspected you would drop by my little salon these days.
Here it is, the scent.
Would you like to...?
I thought so. Now, let me give you a...
Another spritz on the wrist?

Well...?
Did I overwhelm you?
Isn’t it just like in the old days? A Sunday in the countryside...?
Well, that makes me happy!
Let’s see what your fiancée will think...

Most heartfelt thanks, Mr. Jeheimrat!
Do honor me again soon!
And greetings to your wife!

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Lily3013

3 years ago

8.5Scent 7Longevity 8Sillage

2

Wie in Oma/Opas Kräutergarten mit einer süßen Note - ein Erinnerungsduft
Leider NICHT das gleiche wie Herbes Troublantes...

MrMoustache

1 year ago

9Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

1

So fragile and pure! A true beauty and even better than the current Herbes Troublantes. Has a more natural and realistic feel to it!

EveMist

5 years ago

10Scent

38

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On your star, the world is a wish without a goal
Herb lemons grow freely like soft fluff
On your star, an old song awakens

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IrisNobile

4 years ago

8Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

29

17

a gentle breeze whispers
it marries
fine spicy herbs
with the scent of nearby orange groves
high above the vast blue sky
on a sunny summer day

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Knopfnase

4 years ago

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28

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The wind blows
your time away,
weightlessly swinging,
blue-clear ringing.
Life goes
easy - you’re free as a bird.

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April22Bee

4 years ago

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Herbaceous summer scent with relaxing herbal notes.
The green fragrance becomes soft + delicate through O-flower.
Mature yet light.
Beautiful.

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Konst121

1 year ago

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The predecessor of Guerlain's "disturbing herbs" feels slightly less herbal-fresh & a bit cleaner, but lasts a minute longer.

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Leloup

4 years ago

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Most wonderful Sunday
Picnic in the fields
Under sprawling trees
Caressed by herbal aromas
Dreaming into the blue sky

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SchatzSucher

6 years ago

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24

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One of those fragrances that makes you unable to wipe the silly grin off your face. Cool freshness, citrus, herbs, orange blossom, good vibes, sunshine...

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