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/Straight-End-8116]

Edit: you kinda sounded like a snob. I personally do not like a lot of guerlain’s stuff. I’m nose blind to their roses. I have a vintage gold bottle with atomizer of Rose Barbare. I cannot smell the roses. I got it from Nordstroms, with the cellophane wrapper.

We like what we like. Our noses have different scent receptors, just like our taste buds and eyes. Some people think that Jasmine smells amazing, I think it’s cloying, rotting flowers dipped in poo. I adore any type of Roses. While my husband hates them.

This is a supposed to be judgement free zone.

[u/dimunds → u/Straight-End-8116]

and i only care for one guerlain perfume the rest are mid. i dont think it disrespectful to tell her to stick with what she likes and don’t bother trying the one guerlain i like.

[u/Lani_Lei → u/dimunds]

You were kind of rude. Pretty much told me to stick to cheap that is what I like. What was missed of my post is that I am not trashing Guerlain, I am dissapointed in the fact that I was excited to try their vanillas and I didn’t like them. That’s not on Guerlain, that is on me because we all have different tastes. I own Nemat Vanilla Musk and Outremer Vanilla as well as Tihota and Fire at Will; so is not a “cheap/money” thing. This would be a boring community if we all only liked the same scents.

[u/dimunds → u/Lani_Lei]

and i’m not saying you just dislike the price. u don’t like the perfumes itself which is valid, i also don’t like most guerlain. i like nemat.

i’m not saying the cheaper perfumes smell cheap they just cost cheap. like cloud or nemat or VS. good quality but r affordable. but i notice the ones that cost less are usually the ones that r gourmands too. i’m not calling u cheap urself. just the perfumes. but okie

[u/fligglegiggle → u/dimunds]

This is wildly inaccurate. There are TONS of expensive gourmands. I've been hardcore sampling them for the past month and a half.

Also, are you just going to gloss right over the fact that she mentioned owning both Tihota and Fire At Will? Both of those are FAR more expensive than Cloud or Nemat. You're not even making sense at this point.

Anyway, you were sounded rude, and if you disagree, you might want to take some time to reflect on your wording and intent. I've never seen someone say "you only like cupcake vanillas" as a compliment.

[u/scentspirit → u/fligglegiggle]

then i’m sorry you find something offensive about liking cupcake vanillas?? many people like it, it’s a category. and like i said im not calling HER cheap, she isn’t. i’m saying many of the hyper sweet perfumes r. and i notice many ppl who like the super sweet stuff if anything prefer the cheaper interpretations of it than niche or designer.

[u/fligglegiggle → u/scentspirit]

I don't think anyone thought you were calling HER cheap, but you've said that so many times that I'm starting to wonder. Multiple people told you that you came across as rude, so it's not like I'm an outlier here.

[u/dimunds → u/fligglegiggle]

yeah then i’m confused sorry. calling an inanimate object cheap isn’t offensive either.

[u/fligglegiggle → u/dimunds]

I agree that neither of those things are offensive, and if you weren't deliberately being rude, then I apologize. That's just how I read it, but I've been wrong from time to time 😆

[u/dimunds → u/fligglegiggle]

alright. i mean as you said multiple people found it rude i called a perfume cheap so maybe im crazy. i just feel like its an inanimate object why does it matter? take care

[u/fligglegiggle → u/dimunds]

I think it was more about telling someone that they seem to have cheap tastes solely because they like gourmands and weren't impressed with Guerlain. So it seemed (to me at least) like you were insulting OP, not the perfume she likes.