Embla

For a long time I did not dare, held my nose for too untrained to grasp such a classic at all.
Now it was time, I felt ready, have a sample Shalimar EdT ersoukt, looking forward to it and prepared the test time.
2 sprays on the wrist, waited briefly and then sniffed expectantly.....

But.....
Momentarily I feel transported back to the living room of my great aunt. A sophisticated, resolute woman who had come to the Big City from the small village through what she always said was a thoughtful marriage. As a widow, she had escaped the hustle and bustle of the big city and come back to the country. She liked me and always wanted to take me under her wing. I was too shy, maybe too intimidated by her kind, so I sat there, sinking deeper and deeper into the much too soft armchair, the air smelled dusty, sweet, of the furniture polish in the ornate buffet cabinet next to me, the bouquet of flowers on the table, had been in the same water for too long, and I tried to breathe as shallowly as possible because with each breath the air seemed to grow thicker. On the one hand, I wanted to get away, away from the smell and away from her monologue about her life, her travels, the importance of good looks and proper manners, her advice regarding the world of men, but on the other hand, she fascinated me. She was different from all the women I had met up to that point, no even different from all the people I knew - conventions didn't matter to her, she did what she wanted, when she wanted and how she wanted, but she was also stubborn, argumentative and didn't care about the feelings of others.....

For my nose, there is a constant battle going on with this fragrance: the bergamot screams "here I am, I am tart"; iris, jasmine and rose can't agree on who is the most beautiful, the most radiant now; the balsamic notes are so strict with vanilla and tonka that the stand intimidated in the fragrance pyramid and dare not unfold. At first I hoped that the notes would quickly agree and then the glorious, radiant scent I was looking forward to would emerge, but even after hours the battle raged fiercely - to my nose, vanilla and tonka must have won overnight and stand wearily on the battlefield - but each time waiting until the battle is over to then smell vanilla????

I am aware that this fragrance is a classic, that it was loved long before I was born and is still loved by many, many people, that it is masterfully composed, only for me it is not a wearable fragrance - yet I would have wanted to like it so much....
Nevertheless, it will get a place of honor with me and I will also take a look every now and then (maybe a little of the stubbornness of my great aunt is also in me)

i have me at a dear Parfüma a filling ersoukt. Primarily actually because it is a Guerlain and the fragrance pyramid has read well.

But......
The first spray blew me away, touched me, catapulted me onto a pink cloud and put a big grin on my face. I felt like newly in love, love at first spray so to speak. Even now as I write this review, I'm wearing it and it still makes me smile when I sniff a cloud of it. I could dance and embrace the whole world when I wear this scent, it really is falling in love as a perfume for me.

The scent is like a bouquet of fragrant flowers... oh what am I saying, a whole garden of flowers:

A glorious, wild garden of lush gardenia bushes, jasmine climbing over bergamots, a carpet of lilies of the valley and in the middle of this garden in the shade of an orange tree, I lie with my favorite person, slicing a crisp Granny Smith apple into wedges.....
Hach....

I really have to pull myself together right now to keep writing here and stop daydreaming about this garden.

L'Instant de Guerlain is a very floral fragrance, but without drifting too much into sweetness, bergamot and the slightly fresh and tart apple give the floral cloud a spring-like lightness. Still, the perfume has power, currently I wear a spritz on the back of my neck and already feel surrounded by a floral aura that is occasionally broken by a hint of apple. I also find the durability strong, even after 10 hours I still perceive the scent on me and my scarf smells now for days....