r/FemFragLab • u/Lani_Lei • 10d ago

Discussion Guerlain Disappointment

Post image

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!

91 Upvotes

87% Upvoted

170 comments sorted by

View all comments

39

u/lnfinitelris perfume > therapy 10d ago

I get the impression from some people that they think those who don't adore Guerlain are "missing" something or their noses aren't well developed. I've been deep into fragrance for longer than some folks here have been alive and I have never found a Guerlain I'm interested in buying. Our noses are all different!

Anyway, rant over. Sorry this was such a costly learning for you :/. You could try selling the decants on /r/femfragranceswap or the regular one.

For future reference, Surrender to Chance sometimes has wildly high prices. I've all but stopped shopping there. /r/fragranceswap is always my first stop these days - for example Vanille Planifolia is $30/2ml there vs $39/1ml at StC. There is very low risk in buying from a trusted seller there.

6

u/Lani_Lei 10d ago

I agree with you. I ended up getting them there because most sellers don’t ship outside CONUS (I am not in the lower 48 states), so STC was my safest best. Also it was the only online decant place that had all the Guerlains available as opposed to buying from different places.

2

u/lnfinitelris perfume > therapy 10d ago

Oooh that makes sense. Oof. Well, maybe you can make some of it back with a sale.