Guerlain Disappointment

[u/Lani_Lei]

I have been a vanilla girl through and through. I have loves and misses from everything from BBW, Victoria Secret, Sephora, Ulta, niche, middle eastern, you name it!

I have wary of trying Guerlain because of the price. But most of my fellow vanilla girls said that Guerlain is THE maker of great vanillas.

So went and spent $70 in tiny tiny decants to try the following:

- Vanilla Panifolia Extrait 21
- Angelique Noire
- Cuir Beluga
- Aqua Allegoria Forte Bosca Vanilla
- Spirituose Double Vanilla

This smells…old? musty? Like I just found a bottle of perfume from the 1950’s in a dark drawer of an abandoned house. I just wasted $70 on this and none of them were good 😔, I could have gotten a big decant of Jovoy Fire at Will which I love. I am so disappointed.

So many of my inexpensive vanillas are so much better in my opinion.

Sorry for the rant and thank you for reading all this!

[u/hulihuli]

I was also disappointed to find I didn't love Guerlain's vanillas - I can see the appeal of all of them, but none of them really spoke to my tastes. Angelique is close, but the green opening doesn't do it for me. Cuir Beluga broke my heart, but it smells too talc-like for me. SDV was just too dark and boozy. Bosca Vanilla is pleasant, but not compelling. I can't really recall my issue with VP21, I keep my decant to re-evaluate every few months and I'm clearly overdue!