Eau de Popeline

"God what a terrible hangover it had earned him though. He looked at himself in the wardrobe mirror. He stuck out his tongue. 'Yellow,' he thought. The word yellow wandered through his mind in search of something to connect with. "He caught a glint in the shaving mirror. 'Yellow,' he thought, and stomped on to the bedroom." “The word bulldozer wandered through his mind for a moment in search of something to connect with. The bulldozer outside the kitchen window was quite a big one. He stared at it. “Yellow,” he thought, and stomped off back to his bedroom to get dressed” - hitchhikers guide to the galaxy This mimosa will have you thinking yellow. Though a much late winter early spring kind of mimosa yellow. The orange blossom and honey make it appropriate for summer as well.

A celebration of apricot! Sweet, wet, sticky on your fingers. There is sunniness and laughter. This feels like pure joy. It is the loudest, happiest perfume in Guerlain’s fabric line. This is what I was waiting for. I’m smitten. There are some green notes here, as though you just plucked it from the tree, and everything rests on a comfy, gentle bed of white musk. I could live inside this. As time passes, you get honeyed pistachios and the soft flowers, sweetly enveloping you. Stunning. I am a fat cat, basking and napping in my most favorite sunny spot. The world is warm and fuzzy. I will say this does kind of remind me of Nectarine Blossom and Honey from Jo Malone and I’m so curious if other people see the connection too.

I wish I could pick up the nuances of these notes. To my nose, it’s just a fantastically blended beautiful soft musk. I did a side by side of this and Eau de Cashmere and they are incredibly similar. Yet, I think I need both bottles because they’re both lovely. This also supports my need to overspray because it’s not overpowering!

Yummy! My second favourite of the line. A clean-yet-sweet (in a fresh, non-cloying way) musky fruity floral. The honey and apricot are distinct, but I don't get the other notes. This is one of the "stronger" ones in the collection, but still VERY weak. Ranking of this range for me: Eau de coton > eau de popeline > eau de lingerie > eau de cashmere > eau de tulle

It’s pretty, and borderline laundry smelling except the pistachio keeps it from going full tilt in that direction. Literally, this is the modern redo of Petit Guerlain Wasser did (not the original vintage Petit Guerlain so this is a THIRD iteration), slightly tweaked with watery and green notes, and with a new name 🙄 Guerlain loves to do that, no idea why, and it’s annoying AF. If you already have a “flat bee” in the pink or blue label or regular bee of PG, you don’t need this.

What a disappointment - I've need dying to try it as I love all the listed notes, but my nose didn't pick anything up except very faint green scent, no other nuances. No development on the skin, and it's barely detectable. Shame:-(

Opens as a green mimosa with this syrupy, almost reflective sweetness, something faintly pear-like glinting through at first. Then it rounds out into a fuzzier, apricot-jam softness that makes me feel a bit like a plump little bumblebee being ardently courted by some regal honeybee (yes I know that is biologically nonsense...). What I like is that it is less fluffy, egg-yolky, or watery-violet than a lot of mimosa scents. It begins fresh, but in a nectar-like way rather than a breezy one. Still, by the end it turns a bit too sugary and confectionary for me, buying slightly too much into that powdered, stuffy-grandma territory. Since I once made the catastrophic mistake of wearing Chloé’s Herba Mimosa on a violently rocky bus and have never fully recovered, the drydown was a little difficult for me to tolerate so I am trying very hard to be fair here. Objectively, this is a nice and sweet mimosa scent. Fresh at first, then honeyed and jammy, and finally softening into cute floral baby-powder facets. The pistachio, to my nose, feels a touch overly perfumed, but had I not permanently linked mimosa to vehicular nausea like an idiot, I might have loved this more. A release extremely fitting to this entire line: translucent pastel clouds, quietly artful when you follow its evolution closely, though from a distance mostly reads as simply pretty and polite.

First sniff was pretty fabric softener, but there are sweet green notes, watery florals and it's really pretty! So I sprayed on a heavy wet spot and then it was just too sweet. Dry down is even sweeter and in the end it’s almost syrup. A VERY sweet but very pretty floral here. I wish the honey was left out and the green notes amped.

Smells like a yummy jolly rancher. I can smell some powder but it’s extremely lightweight. There’s no heaviness in it at all, perfect as a daily. Will have to try it out some more to determine longevity