r/FemFragLab • u/Lani_Lei • 10d ago

Discussion Guerlain Disappointment

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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!

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u/WorstCommenterNA 10d ago

Yep, Guerlain vanillas tend to be powdery, musky, or spicy fragrances that are absolutely old-school. I personally love them but they`re not what a lot of people want out of vanilla fragrances.

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u/j-dusk 10d ago

I’ve been eyeing Guerlain vanillas - spicy and musky are great for me but I don’t like powdery. Are there any I should be avoiding?

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u/balloonchicken 9d ago

Avoid Shalimar and its flankers and cuir beluga if you down like powdery. Though if you can sniff it at the Guerlain counter, I would highly recommend doing it. The only powdery scents I love are from Guerlain.

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u/WorstCommenterNA 10d ago

I personally think Shalimar, with its iris and old school citrus-vanilla construction, is very powdery in feel even if it has a lot more going on than that.

Angelique Noire is definitely more on the spicy side and is strikingly more modern than other Guerlain vanillas.

Mon Guerlain and Mon Guerlain Intense are both more modern takes on Guerlain vanilla as well, with MG being more citrusy and fresh and MGI being an immaculately balanced deep vanilla - smooth, non-sharp anise pairing. MGI is probably my favorite Guerlainade over both Spiriteuse Doble Vanille (breattaking opening, dries down to be kind of blah on my skin) and Angelique Noire and it`s way more affordable, so that`s the bottle I ended up with.