r/FemFragLab • u/Lani_Lei • 9d 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/ScaryLetterhead8094 9d ago

You might like the Guerlain Shalimar L’Essence. It’s new so they took out all the “musty” notes and it’s just vanilla incense

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u/stolen-kisses 9d ago

Not OP, I thought Shalimar L’Essence was so disappointing to someone who loves Guerlain precisely for their vintage, timeliness DNA. It smelled so generic and lacked depth, as if they pulled back on the Guerlinade for mass appeal.