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A perfume by Guerlain for women, released in 2008. The scent is floral-fruity. It was last marketed by LVMH.
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Main accords

Floral
Fruity
Powdery
Chypre
Sweet

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
White peachWhite peach
Heart Notes Heart Notes
RoseRose
Base Notes Base Notes
PatchouliPatchouli VanillaVanilla

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
7.4111 Ratings
Longevity
7.887 Ratings
Sillage
6.681 Ratings
Bottle
8.287 Ratings
Value for money
6.812 Ratings
Submitted by Kankuro · last update on 04/20/2025.
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Interesting Facts
The fragrance was part of the collection Les Élixirs Charnels.

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7 in-depth fragrance descriptions
Anosmia

19 Reviews
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Anosmia
Anosmia
Top Review 31  
Girl Fatale
She comes from a clan of women. Her father is God knows where, probably sent off to the desert by her mother. She grew up with her mother, her aunts, and her mother’s friends. The ladies all have exotic names and are pure Grandezza. The few gentlemen in the family practice discreet restraint. They are gentlemen.
Now the girl is 20, has her high school diploma in hand, and is moving out of the huge house in the small town and into a chaotic shared apartment in Berlin. Before that, she breaks up with her boyfriend, who will study to become a teacher in Tübingen.

Girl Fatale is undeniably a beauty, a Snow White beauty, with flawless peach skin, dark hair, huge eyes, and rosy cheeks. She is curious, quite interesting, she has a few edges and corners, but above all, she has mood swings between cheerful-exuberant and dark-melancholic.
A few weeks ago, she took a psychological test developed by "Cosmopolitan" in collaboration with Christine Nagel: "What type of women's fragrance am I?" Because she often takes such tests (secretly, because it doesn’t quite fit the image she wants to convey to others), she knows exactly how to answer so that the outcome is what she wants. She doesn’t want to be an androgynous woman, a sweet tooth, or a romantic, no, she is, of course, a femme fatale. Monica Bellucci in "Brotherhood of the Wolf" and Zenia from Margaret Atwood's "The Robber Bride," those are her role models.
And she likes the scent - it can be dark and heavy, it dares to be a little bold, it’s not just flowers with vanilla, no, there’s also a bit of spice in it and even patchouli! However, not the incense stick patchouli that the ladies of the family use, but delicious patchouli wrapped in lots of vanilla. And every hour the perfume smells a little different.

Girl Fatale is letting loose in the big city. She has affairs with artists, musicians, even with mean-looking bouncers. When she drinks, she drinks hard, and it often ends with her vomiting in the flowerbeds.
She practices her looks - bored, determined, seductive, but often it still goes wrong and ends up with a duck face. The eyeliner doesn’t always sit right, the outfit sometimes looks a bit strange, and when she wants to impress her friends, it can happen that she confuses Dostoevsky with Bukowski.

But she’s still practicing. No one is born a femme fatale; it takes a lot of adventure (and a few embarrassing appearances) to earn that title.
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Turandot

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Turandot
Top Review 28  
Names Are Just Sound and Smoke
I received Chypre Fatal from Anouschka among other fragrances to test, and I was very surprised when I found nothing particularly chypre-like in the pyramid. The listed notes sound rather banal, and after being somewhat disappointed by Boisé Torride from the Elixir Charnel collection, I expected nothing extraordinary from Chypre Fatal as well. However, I assume that Guerlain is simply keeping the ingredients a bit under wraps, as the scent is beautiful and reveals itself to be much more expressive than the architecture of the perfume would suggest.

Chypre Fatal is a light fragrance, but anyone who dismisses "light" as banal or unremarkable is greatly mistaken. The perfume is bright, delicate, yet radiant and elegant. The peach note in the opening does not come from the yellow-fleshed ones we find in canned goods, but rather from a green, just-ripened peach with an almost creamy aroma that quickly merges with the rose. This blossom also does not possess the dark, slightly wilted heaviness often found in perfumes; instead, I envision a nearly white, perhaps salmon-pink bloom of a shrub or climbing rose, beautifully fading away in a hint of powdery and soft base.

There is completely absent the Guerlain opulence, and I notice nothing of the Guerlinade, or at least very little. And yet, Chypre Fatal unmistakably has Guerlain-level quality and an elegant lightness.

Well, for my nose, this is not a chypre fragrance, but see the title....
For those who are still apprehensive about the Guerlain blockbusters, perhaps thinking that one must first mature into Guerlain scents, they should use Chypre Fatal as an entry point and will surely become infected with the virus.
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Medusa00

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Medusa00
Top Review 23  
Banal Chypre!
"Gekocht habe ich nichts, aber guck mal wie ich da liege!" she chirps, throwing herself on the bed and stretching her legs in the air. He has seen this scenario at least 165 times over the last year. The lady in a pink tutu and fluffy slippers with high heels, and she can't even walk in them! Instead of throwing a proper steak in the pan after work, she flutters around in her shirt and wants to seduce him. Well, he could have ignored his hunger if she had approached him with a classy Chypre like "Bandit" or a seducer like "Habanita" from Molinard, but this shallow scent? No man gets the big itch or a rutting cry from that.
Which man cares if his wife smells gently of peaches? Maybe she made jam during the day?
Cut pink roses in the garden?
Well, patchouli and vanilla don’t make a Chypre, Mrs. Nail! You’ve nailed it wrong here! Wear your pink tutu and the banality for yourself privately! The scent isn't bad, but it's as far from a true Chypre as Neptune is from Earth!
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Leimbacher

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Leimbacher
Top Review 13  
Edward's Sister with the Rose Hands
And the second Guerlain perfume in today's test is a rose perfume... But actually the exact opposite of Nuit d'Amour. Here, little is calm and mysterious; the scent quickly reveals what it stands for: peach, rose, patchouli, and vanilla. Finally, a fragrance that I believe in its scent pyramid, even if it is minimal. This rose bush is far from being a chypre; it could have freshly come from the 80s. Instead, it reminds me even more of the 80s classic Photo or Ted Lapidus Pour Homme, just more feminine and diva-like. But still, for me and men in general, it's not unthinkable!

The scent jumps around like a rabbit. Sometimes a scratchy-soapy rose bush, sometimes softer rose petals on bright peaches. Then again a patchouli bomb with restrained vanilla or Guerlinade in the background. In any case, it has character! Especially the peaches and the wonderful vanilla, which is so pleasantly rare, deserve to be mentioned!

Bottle: Decorations are so-so, but overall very good!
Sillage: not to be underestimated due to the scratchy rose.
Longevity: still warm vanilla up to hour 10 for me.

An interesting diva rose, where I'm still not sure if it has style and fits Guerlain... Somehow, in an unusual way, it does. A must-try for rose fans anyway!
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Florblanca

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Florblanca
Top Review 14  
The Fatal Aspect of Chypre Fatal
is that it is basically a fruity Oriental. Although, it does have a tiny bit of a Chypre, after all, it is from Guerlain, but Chypre lovers probably won't have any fun with it.

Many thanks to you, dear Travana, you knew it of course! ;-))

The Fatal opens with peaches, not just one peach, but PEACHES. And they stick around - as we know from Guerlain - quite a long time. But from the very beginning, when I hold my nose directly to the skin, there is a slight animalistic touch. However, from a certain distance - 20 cm is enough - this wonderful, juicy peach wafts into my nose.

Then the rose comes in, and I am actually sure that it is not just the rose. There is more floral to it. It does not replace the peach, no, it simply joins it, and together they create a wonderful, fruity floral note, with a hint of darkness behind it. The whole thing is creamy and soft, fine and buoyant.

Not even the base comes off as fatal; it is also soft and creamy, rounded and very elegant. It simply embraces the fruity floral note and complements it into a different whole than the heart note, but no less beautiful. The initial light sweetness has completely vanished in the base. Patchouli behaves like a lady, and the vanilla shows that it can also be elegant without pushing itself to the forefront.

No, Chypre Fatal is not a Chypre for Chypre aunties (and uncles), Chypre Fatal is - once again - a Schüpre for Flori!!!

I am fully on the Guerlain trip and you are to blame, all of you!!! ;-DD
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21 short views on the fragrance
4 years ago
1
A milky peach and a bare bone chypre.
What Coty might have lashed up in a rage after smelling Mitsouko for the first time.
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A sharp chypre sister, with a constant shift from soft peach to slightly scratchy soapy rose. Rugged patchouli cradles it. Not uninteresting.
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Peach rose, not fatal, but also not banal,
geniusly dusted with light-dark patch earth:
totally ideal as a spring scent with an edge.
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At first, it bites terribly in the nose
Then I find the combo
Of chocolatey patchouli
With soapy aldehydes
And overripe fruit strange
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I'm missing the bergamot top note for a true chypre, but the approach is intriguing: initially heavy, seductive, and quirky. It demands attention.
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Chypre is so, so. You might want to improve. Just with rose, patchouli + vanilla, it won't work. You're quite nice, but without moss, nothing happens.
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A delicate spring kiss...
Peach embraces vanilla.
Rose and patchouli hum a lovely tune.
Spring feelings on the skin!
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Neither Chypre nor Fatal - just a beautiful, light, powdery rose-peach scent with a high price tag.
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10 years ago
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Fruity, deep, alluring, long-lasting. Reminds me of Gucci Rush - less artificial and more charming. Beautiful!
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Fatal, surprising development - the opening is a fruit cup on a bed of roses, it doesn't stay harmless, patchouli and herbiness add depth.
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