Cuir Béluga Guerlain 2005

When I smell Cuir Beluga I have to think of this movie! American Gigolo! To Lauren Hutton, she wore guaranteed this fragrance or Richard Gere or both! The whole film smells like Cuir Beluga, no vice versa!
Lauren Hutton is for me the Cuir Beluga woman. Blonde and with a cool sex appeal! Reserved, classy, a little shy with discreet gold jewelry dressed in a beige cashmere sweater and the jacket worn over the shoulder like a cape! American upper class, college educated girl from a good home looking for a good match!
Beige, beige, kahaki, light brown, dark brown is anyway the association with this fragrance. Brown, beige , orange etc the colors of the eighties. Clock radios and funky cabinets! Today you would call it NUDE.
Everyone ran around with beige clothes and too tight pants!

Blondie sings to it in endless loop Hearth of Glass!
The playlist is completed by ABBA with Gimme Gimme
Now to the fragrance:

Cuir Beluga begins with me with tangerine and a note not clearly identifiable for me, probably the aldehyde. In addition, vanilla. The fragrance is very close to the skin, but projects yet quite well. I like that somehow at the, and that have all fragrances from this series, which I got so far under the nose together. They are soft and round and cuddly and cuddly somehow.
I have since Perfumo really developed a soft spot for vanilla, but only this good high-quality fine vanilla as you find it only in high-quality fragrances, and especially in the Guirlains the yes are known for the fine vanilla. You can smell it. My nose has something festgerochen there! Indeed!

Nevertheless, Cuir Beluga is not a fragrance for me, it's just too retro for me. I kind of don't like the orange, tangerine theme! He is good, no question and this eroticism and sensuality also reaches me, otherwise I would have a different association with it! American Gigolo...

After some time, the tangerine then disappears with me and the vanilla comes through properly. From here on, the fragrance is really nice. Still something dry dusty summery comes to it, that could be the strawflower. (...Richard drives the convertible over the highway, right and left is the sandy dry landscape)

Suede I do not take or only very subliminally, that creates with me probably the now politically completely incorrect association with furs, fur jackets or fur stoles. Yes Cuir Beluga smells to me like someone who wears fur. Vllt that's why I do not like him!

Amber makes the whole round! The base is nice and supports the beautiful vanilla.

What makes the fragrance as I said very attractive is this very intimate projection of the fragrance. This probably brings him this reputation of an erotic fragrance. But Angelique can do that too!

Durability with me good, the sillage is as mentioned clear, but just that is nice! Beast Mode do not need at all for a good fragrance!

For me, however, not a must have. Nice yes, nostalgic yes. The flacon I would have liked!

Ahhh, a few more words about the flacon:

I find yes the bottles of the series "L'Art et la Matière" great! Something so beautiful. Therefore, I would have found it great would have suited me the fragrance, so that next to Angelique vllt still a second fragrance of the series would have moved in.

In general, I have been more concerned about this collection with Guirlain and also vanilla scents, and must say that I have become a fan. Guirlain is one of the greatest perfume houses on the planet!

Too bad Cuir Beluga!
https://youtu.be/i4DI71X6PeM To the trailer of American Gigolo!