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Tender affection in a library in France...
... a kiss, so innocently sweet. Exchanged in a corner of a large library. The beginning of perhaps a new story, caught between millennia-old stories. Only briefly, the blink of an eye.
Before lips part again and the seriousness of great feelings gives way to youthful freedom.
For a long time I didn't want to test the fragrance at all, oud was the reason. Associations with the excretions of various hoofed animals made me avoid it until now.
But as curiosity won out and my perfume journey and nose developed further, I decided to make an exception. Admittedly, the fact that this is a "Guerlain" is not innocent. No other house has yet managed to inspire me after my initial reluctance. To adapt the review, to rediscover fragrance sensations again and again and ultimately to own some of the creations...
About the fragrance:
Very raspberry-sweet at the beginning. The opening is very similar to "French Kiss", if that's too sweet for you, you should perhaps refuse the kiss;-)
When I sniff it on my arm, I notice the oud. A brief sniff and a hoofed animal alert. But if you don't put your nose right up to your wrist like I do, the oud note is really tame ;-).
The fragrance undergoes a very nice development... Raspberry sweetness, softer oud, woods.
The woody note has something pleasant... a library or bookbindery... Paper, wood, glue... Craftsmanship.
The woody note is also what balances the raspberry sweetness for me and makes the fragrance wearable.
Towards the end, the raspberry sweetness remains with vanilla fluff peppered with marzipan sprinkles.
The fragrance is a balancing act for me as "my fragrance". At the beginning and end, it is somehow almost too sweet for me, but the woody middle makes it nice, so I like it and find it interesting.
Where and when I would wear it, I don't know yet, my mood during the day is not as changeable as the fragrance ... sweet and almost childlike to serious and then back to sweet again...
The title and first paragraph of the review aptly describe the course of the fragrance for me and as multi-layered as I perceive it.
It is probably too tame for oud lovers, but those who want to become one, or perhaps not yet, can give it a try!
Raspberry sweetness and the tangy, youthful lightness and light-heartedness associated with it is something you should also want to wear.
As of today, it is a good fragrance, not the best Guerlain and also not one that you absolutely "have to" get to know, if you had to limit yourself to just a few. Although it is multi-layered and undergoes a really beautiful development, the fragrance notes are not quite as unique and incomparable as in other creations by the house. But if there's one thing I've learned, it's that Guerlain manages to develop fragrances in such a way that they want to be discovered, almost "have" to be discovered and develop just like you do... ;-)
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