L'Heure Bleue by Guerlain Eau de Parfum Spray / 2.5 fl.oz. 75ml

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In fact, I'll sometimes dot my modern LHB application with a droplet of McCormick's Anise food flavoring. The day I met my fiancée, kissing twenty two years old, my fiancée who is my soul, who is the love of all my lives before and all the lives to come, who is my etching and my mercy, the solemn core of my heart, I was riven with an almost catatonic ecstasy and fear.

Hours later the fragrance intensifies to floral powdery, a late-evening sublimation of ballerinas backstage. The top notes are opening with spicy-sweet aniseed and fresh bergamot that gently lead to the heart of rose, carnation, tuberose, violet, and neroli. Purple flowers, powdery, sweet and soft but full of character, very spiced and so much greater than the sum of its parts. And for those more afraid of the powdery leather iris depth of the L’Heure Bleue DNA the EDT can be a good compromise.A cool early summer night whe There is also a pencil shavings note at the end which is unnecessary and doesn’t do anything positive for this scent, except maybe bring in dustiness. If No5 is sparkling and in the sunshine playing croquet because of it's aldehydes and citrus, L'Heure Bleue Eau de Parfum is indoors reading poetry in their gilded boudoir next to their powdered wig and corset because of the iris, heliotrope and anise. The smog's mesmeristic feel is unique to L'Heure Bleue and is jacques Guerlain's style, logo creation. It’s complicated enough that I can’t describe it more than saying that, on me, it settles into a powdery floral with a hint of spice.

is all about bright aldehydes, ylang and florals, whereas L'heure Bleue is far more vanillic, powdery, heliotrope with that classic "Guerlainade" iris-bergamot base blend that Guerlain is famous for. It's purple flowers, vanilla and tonka with an extra vintage touch, but the latter can't be defined exactly. I enjoy it, and I guess this is one of the accords that make people think of old, rich ladies when they smell this. but rather because its medicinal quality could-- purely olfactorily-- offset other notes in the composition, and do it in a subtler way than could, say, eucalyptus, rosemary, menthol or camphor.The fragrance is velvety soft and romantic, it is a fragrance of bluish dusk and anticipation of night, before the first stars appear in the sky. I got a sample of the vintage perfume and it breaks my heart that full bottles of the perfume are no longer for sale. The first spray is an ambush of neon-bright white florals, in particular a septum-searing dirty Jasmine which is both a headspace floral (quite akin to Molinard’s Jasmine) and very reminiscent of flower stalls selling garlands during a Hindu festival. I can see my grandmother at her dresser with her ornate mirror putting on her nice jewelry after getting dressed up.

I honestly can not decipher single notes, it seems very well blended so I'll try to give an overall impression instead.I had tried it earlier in summer and the spices were much more pronounced and the fragrance lasted longer in warmer weather.

Longevity is excellent because this was made in the early 1900’s and it does have the vintage type of smell but NOT in a bad way at all. And I think this idea is well represented here, in this olfactory orchestration of life and death as two necessary sides of the same human experience.It's painful when you really love a fragrance and you feel it works well with your chemistry and personality -- I feel so bold and womanly, and yet so fragile and soft when I wear it -- but few people around you seems to feel the same. I get a constant and long lasting medicinal smell, which I thought was heliotrope, but another reviewer mentioned French Thyme, which appears to be the base of many Guerlain perfumes. There is something of historical importance in the fragrance - like it is a message to us from the past about optimism, subtlety.