Heya Lovers of Fine Fragrance,
Today I want to look at a decant I’ve had lying around here for a while but never seem to get to. Why has it lain forlorn and unloved? Who knows, sometimes it happens around here. What I did do yesterday after my bath though was spritz myself and WOW! So I spritzed again for work and now I am wearing it again. Masterpiece? Naah, but enjoyable? YES
Fragrantica says: Mademoiselle Guerlain is chic, elegant, cheerful Parisian scent. It is launched in 2014 in the exclusive Guerlain collection, but in fact it is the same fragrance as La Petite Robe Noire 2 from 2011 in a new bottle and a new name.
Mademoiselle Guerlain by Thierry Wasser for Guerlain 2014
Photo Stolen Fragrantica
Fragrantica gives these featured accords:
Top: Galbanum, bergamot, lemon
Heart: Iris, orange blossom, marshmallow
Base: Vanilla, leather, white musk
There hasn’t been very much written about Mademoiselle Guerlain except to announce its coming and to tell us its history. As you may know I love Guerlain and most of their offerings work for me on some level so I was super dooper excited when told they were going to re-release the LPRN2 that I was 100% sure would be a million times more me than LPRN original, which I like very much most days but sometimes it’s like being suffocated by a macaroon.
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I have spent a couple of days wearing Mademoiselle Guerlain now. Its green opening is at once sticky and cool, like the first gulp of a soft drink on a warm day. Refreshing but not thirst quenching. Interesting……. This initial frisson sadly lasts too briefly and the sugar enters like Pez or pastilles wrapped in marshmallow. Reads as if it’s TOTALLY disgusting, right? It’s not, it is sweet and fun and youthful, though not particularly sophisticated. Slowly the orange blossom, vanilla and iris bloom together underneath the sweetness and now you can feel that the whole fragrance has a lovely depth, here is where Mademoiselle Guerlain becomes a Guerlain. Something better than its contemporaries, frankly it is beautiful. Lavish but subtle, you won’t skunk people with Mademoiselle Guerlain unless you are in a fragphobic environment. Fragrant but not imposing or intimidating, Mademoiselle Guerlain will never be mistaken for a 1980s BIG WHITE FLORAL. Pretty and delicate, lovely and wearable through the heart I feel that Mademoiselle Guerlain could have been a best seller if offered in a less expensive flaccon and size.
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Dry down is an intimate, musky and fluffy confectionery barely tempered by a hint of leather, after 6 hours I am still softly fragrant and putting my head into my top to smell I can definitely get wafts. Nothing stands out to me at this point but it’s a sweet and attractive wash rather than discernible notes. Nothing earth shattering but very nice, wearable in that modern sweet white musk way. I guarantee that Mademoiselle Guerlain will be a hit if you gift it, even to the least interested in fragrance, as long as they like sweet fragrances. There is nothing new or confrontational in the dry down for them, it could very well be a better quality celebuscent ending.
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Further reading: Perfume Shrine
Guerlain Flagship Stores and some large Department Stores have Mademoiselle Guerlain
My Mademoiselle Guerlain came from a split, thanks RuthK
Surrender To Chance have samples starting at $3.30/.5ml
Did you ever try La Petite Robe Noire 2 when it was available? Are you a fan of the original La Petite Robe Noire? What do you think of the Bee Bottle and pink juice?
Portia xx
I don’t like the bottles. There. I said it in public. Bussi. xxx
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HA HA HA! Val you are hilarious. That is a shame, I freaking LOVE the Bee Bottles. They feel so lavish in my hands and look great on the dresser.
Thanks for dropping by, I love you.
Portia xx
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I think they look like drugstore bottles that have nasty bubblebath in. Maybe you should give me one and see if I change my mind?
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Is that what you want Val?
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Course not. Was being amusing. Some of the bee bottles are exquisite. But I don’t care for these ones.
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Phew! Yes, you ARE amusing.
One day we’ll all have Bee Bottles of PARFUM!
Of course yours will be filled with Vero Profumo.
XXX
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And Voil de Nuit Vintage, possibly Mitsouko – I have got some style you know.
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Vol*
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VAL de Nuit?
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Hi Portia! I love the bottles. I have the original LPRN and have not tried this. Will stop by and try it this week. Thank you for an uplifting read. Xoxo
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Hey there Sandra,
Phew, we are bottle twins.
A little lighter than LPRN. Do you ever get engulfed by the original? On rare occasions it completely rolls over me, mostly I adore it though.
Portia xx
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I’ve been having a love & hate relationship with the original LPRN. I love it when the weather is cool but can’t stand it when it’s hot… I haven’t tried MG yet but I’m so drawn to the bottle.
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Hey ThinkingMagpie,
I’m glad someone else has the same problem. I don’t think my reaction is heat averse but it may be. I’ll have to monitor it in the future.
Portia xx
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I never could understand why people were so excited about those bottles. And I don’t like the color of the juice. I didn’t think much of any of the “dress” perfumes, they were just ok mainstream offerings at the time – so for me repackaging it into a more impressive bottle doesn’t make much sense. But if you enjoy it (even from a decant 🙂 ) – that’s great.
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Hey Undina,
I think it’s the link to history for me. Also, the link to the unattainable, the BEE BOTTLE. Every time I spritz anything remotely resembling one I feel like I have spiritually touched on all that. Like buying a DIOR perfume and getting a sliver of all the history and glamour, of owning a Haute Couture gown or being the kind of person who could. Yes the juices are mainstream and certainly not boundary pushers, but the whisper of guerlinade is there too. For me the perfume journey, especially in this case, is the experience of it all.
However, I do get your point completely because they know me as a consumer, it is all very good marketing and yes I am being had a little bit.
Portia xx
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