Néroli Plein Sud Guerlain 2024

Neroli is not easy for me. I often get tired of neroli fragrances quickly, or I don't like them from the start. Neroli Outrenoir was too good for me after a short time, Nerolia Vetiver was so pungent and refreshing that the fragrance was only used on hot days or better still not at all (and that after I had bought a bottle of the stock bees, in my youthful recklessness). However, a new, probably more loyal customer was quickly found. Now for the new Neroli Plein Sud, which makes me think of summer, sun, freedom, travel fever and luggage, even from the Saint-Exupery-inspired advertising. However, it also reminds me of Louis Vuitton, from whose stable Guerlain also comes, and the horses of this group are getting closer and closer....
But after I had resisted testing NPS for long enough, I was sneakily forced to try it just because I had wandered into a Guerlain boutique.
Now I had no excuse. Without much goodwill or anticipation, I sprayed the fragrance on the back of my hand. Yes, of course, I thought, Nerolia Vetiver, just not so brizzelig, it's not Aqua Allegoria.
But after a few minutes, a mangolassi-like spice cream reached me. India? Long-distance travel? Tropical helmets? Explorers?
Beautiful, enchanting, familiar and yet inspiring. How can that be?
I don't know how. But that's how it is.
A fragrance that picks me up and takes me far away, with its 70s vibes, the memories of Charlie by Revlon paired with the summer freshness of vetiver, the bed of exotic spices and the sun cream note of Sun. It sounds mainstream, but it's not. Because we mustn't forget the secret ingredient, which of course I don't know myself, but there is something magical about it that makes me close my eyes and feel a golden calm and warmth. It can't just be the cinnamon!
Anyway, I buy the large bottle in the luxury version. And I want to visit a spice garden in Sri Lanka again soon....