Homme
Mint is the first thing you smell in Guerlain Homme Eau de Parfum 100ml, and it is the reason this fragrance has a following that has nothing to do with the house's classics.
The opening is a cold, almost shocking rush. Mint and peppermint lead, sharp and leafy, with lime, lemon and bergamot behind them and lemon verbena adding a lemony herb edge that keeps the citrus from going fizzy and soft. It smells green, bitter and startlingly clean. What follows is unusually spare. Cedarwood, galbanum and vetiver make up the middle, galbanum pushing that green bitterness further, cedarwood dry and pencil sharp, vetiver rooty and faintly smoky. The base simply continues with cedarwood and vetiver, which means the fragrance ends roughly where its middle began, dry and woody and still cool.
That structure makes it extremely consistent. At eau de parfum strength it holds for five or six hours, the mint fading after the first thirty minutes and the wood taking over. It is a hot weather fragrance above all, and a good one for the gym bag, the office in July and long days outdoors. It is sold as a men's scent and worn by plenty of women who like things cold and clean. Thierry Wasser composed it in 2008, and it remains the sharpest, least sentimental thing in the house's men's range.
Guerlain has made perfume in Paris since 1828, a business now held by LVMH. For a house whose fame rests on its sweet, heavy classics, a cold mint and vetiver scent is a real departure. It is worth trying precisely because it does not smell like the rest of what carries the name, and at 100ml it is also one of the better value bottles in the range.
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