Mon Guerlain
Anyone who assumes lavender belongs in men's fragrance should spend ten minutes with Guerlain Mon Guerlain Eau de Parfum, which is built on it and is unmistakably feminine.
The opening pairs lavender with bergamot, and the lavender is handled as a sweet, soft, slightly powdery material rather than a sharp herbal one. That choice sets up everything that follows, and it is why the fragrance never smells like a drawer liner. The middle is classical and warm. Iris brings its cool grey powder, sambac jasmine a rich white floral sweetness with a faintly fruity edge, and rose a rounded fullness underneath. None of the three is loud; they work as a single soft centre.
The base is where the fragrance makes its money. Tahitian vanilla is creamy and sweet without being a dessert, australian sandalwood adds a dry milky wood, licorice provides a cool, slightly bitter twist that keeps the sweetness honest, benzoin a sticky resin and patchouli a thread of earth. It is a comfortable, expensive smelling finish and it lasts.
Delphine Jelk and Thierry Wasser composed it in 2017, and at this strength you can expect seven hours or more with a soft but definite trail, and it is one of those fragrances that smells better an hour in than it does from the nozzle. It suits autumn and winter best, works for both day and evening, and is an easy recommendation for someone who finds most modern perfume either too sweet or too sharp.
As for the name, this is an 1828 Paris house in LVMH hands. This is the fragrance that reintroduced it to buyers in their twenties, and the one most likely to be on a dressing table in ten years' time. There is nothing difficult about it, which is precisely the point.
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