French Kiss

I love powdery scents and I always loved to have a perfume that smells like lipstick and makeup powder but I didn't have any hopes to find one as I had sampled a few perfumes known as lipstick scents and they didn't remind me of lipstick.I even disliked some of them,yes Lipstick On I'm looking at you. I also don't like Insolence EDP(I kind of like My Insolence though) I went to the only perfume shop that has Guerlain Exclusives in my country with the purpose of testing and buying Gourmand Coquin(which I loved and purchased immediately) but first I sprayed French Kiss by mistake and I was hooked! French Kiss is the prettiest and cutest scent I have ever smelt.it's very girly and fun and flirty and delicious but it's also elegant. It reminds me of everything girly and smells like color pink. superfeminine, romantic like a fairytale,beautiful like a dream,soft like angel's wings and sparkly like lip gloss and skin glitter.It's really hard to describe how lovely this powdery veil is.it's a simple scent,youthful and easy to love.violet and heliotrope appear in their prettiest forms and raspberry adds a pink,fruity sparkle to this violet powder cloud.it really smells like lipsticks,fruity lip gloss and lip balms ,lotion,face powder, sugar coated gummy bears, fruity powdery blushes,dolls, marshmallow and colorful macaroons. it is the epitome of feminity.I loved it so much that I couldn't resist and bought it too.now I'm totally bankrupt thanks to French Kiss and Gourmand Coquin but I don't regret buying them French Kiss lasts +10 hours on my skin.it's a soft scent but people around me easily notice it in first hours of application.to me it's wearable year round and is a great date perfume,also lovely for girls night out.even an adorable bride perfume if you want something other than a white floral This is my HG lipstick perfume یه عطر پودری بی نظیر،ترکیب بنفشه،هلیوتروپ و تمشک.مظهر زیبایی و زنونگی،ساده،دخترونه،دوست داشتنی،ظریف،رومانتیک،جوون،رویایی، خوشمزه ترکیب بوی رژلب،برق لب و بالم لب میوه ای،لوسیون،رژگونه پودری،پاستیلهای صورتی شکری، مارشمالو و ماکارون، ورژن عطری یه دنیای دخترونه و صورتی_یاسی رنگ واسه من کوچکترین شباهتی ب لیپ استیک آن نداره خوشبختانه و بنظرم از اینسولنس ها خیلی خیلی بهتره باوجود قیمت خیلی بالاش واسه من ارزش خرید داشت. موندگاری خیلی خوبی داره و بااینکه عطر ملایمیه بقیه براحتی متوجهش میشن،بنظر من میتونه چهارفصل باشه و خیلی پراستفاده

I’ve held off from reviewing this for a while in the hope of working out how to capture it in words better – I still don’t think it’s going to happen! I’ve developed a habit of buying perfume at the airport whenever we’re off on holidays in the hope that the fragrance can capture the memory of the holiday... although this fragrance wasn’t bought at the airport (only available at Guerlain stores or exclusive distributors I think?), it’s sort of fallen into that category as I find it quite similar to the one I did buy from the airport – La Petite Robe Noire parfum. I was surprised and transfixed by LPRN – it’s sparkling, fresh and fruity and it has a surprisingly clean and uplifting dry down that I never expected. The cherry note was particularly surprising as I felt it may be too cloying initially but it settled into being my favourite part – and then lasted on and on and on. French Kiss is very similar to LPRN to me... almost to the point that I questioned whether I should be buying two such similar fragrances. However, I find French Kiss to be notably warmer – still cherry but with a bit of strawberry and creamy vanilla. When I had LPRN on one wrist and French kiss on the other, the difference was very obvious – absolutely delicious! The difference to me is much like Crystal Noir to Hypnotic Poison – so many similarities but the first being summer and the second being winter. The longevity and silage of French Kiss aren’t monsters on me but it dry’s down to a beautiful soft skin scent that lasts several hours. The top notes and heart are my favourites though – I want to be able to smell it as long as possible. Anyway, the differences between LPRN and French Kiss were enough to convince me to spend all that money on yet another fragrance and I’m very, very happy I did... I love them both and neither of these are like anything else in my collection. My latest favourites and a duel reminder of our wonderful Christmas holiday in Hong Kong.

French Kiss is definitely out of my comfort zone; floral fruity, raspberry and white musk are categories I would usually steer away from. Strangely - I love it! Other than a very pleasant surprise it was for me testing it for the first time, there are several reasons why I think French Kiss a hidden wonder of Les Elixirs Charnels. Luckily, lychee is what I get the most of the fruity part, adding a dose of tartness to the raspberry - my usual perfume nemesis, always so synthetic-smelling and somehow stuffy. What many detect here as a cough syrup accord, I smell as - raspberry. So, this wonderful lychee is making a very good balance in what would normally be very sweet combo of raspberry, heliotrope, violet and vanilla. Another thing is a remote connection to La Petite Robe Noire (which I also strongly dislike), but it is short-lived. Although I never used Guerlain's famous Kiss Kiss lipstick, the reference of lipstick smell is evident. After the fruity opening, heliotrope, orris root, rose and violet appear and soon enough all I can smell is lipstick everywhere, exactly like when smeared of kissing! This moment of perfume's development was an eureka-moment for me. Furthermore, the quirkiness of this perfume became even greater when the smeared lipstick note was joined by the fruity sourness which resulted with an odd accord resembling human saliva; though it may seem off-putting or even gross, it actually makes it 3D realistic and very authentic - the smell of kissing passionately with someone. This moment, as well as the hefty dose of iris missing in French Kiss, is what distinguishes it from Lipstick On! of Maison M. Margiela. Both compositions are very atmospheric yet this stuff is far from girlish pink, it's a different kind of perfume completely - a quirky and sexy cosmetic delight.

My sample just arrived (dab on) and I'm wearing it now. If it doesn't wow you at first, be patient. It will. I didn't get much fruit at all, but this is a soft, hypnotizing kiss (because it really is a "kiss"...it doesn't grab you by the throat, like Gourmand Coquin does, and I worship Gourmand Coquin) of the musk, vanilla, powdery iris, and something slightly almondy which I'm guessing is the heliotrope. I think I'm picking up on the violets (because it seems a bit powdery ) too, but I didn't get the berries. That is okay, as just the notes I described make it beautiful enough. Perhaps a spray would bring out the raspberries a bit more. French Kiss has a siren song...so watch out, lol! It whispers in your ear, and leans in and gives you the softest, sweetest, sexiest kiss. And you smell divine. This is going on my want list. Edit: I happen to have a chemistry that devours fruity notes (with the exception of blackberry and black currant, for some strange reason) and I like fruity notes, but I did notice after giving French Kiss some time on my skin, that I could detect a very soft raspberry making herself present amongst the other delightful characters in this juice. About two hours after applying. I've already decided to bring this one home, as I find that I need it to live, but I just thought I'd mention that, for others who have a hard time detecting fruity notes on their skin after the initial spray. Love, love, love! Now if I could just fnd a perfume with a peach note that will stick to me for more than two minutes... ;)

I see French Kiss as a successful experiment in how pink, sweet and girly you can make a scent while still keeping it perfectly balanced, elegant and high-quality. As it turns out, that's pretty far, at least if you're Guerlain! It's all about rose, violet and raspberry, so it's really very "pink" and girly, but not juvenile at all - a sophisticated girliness that suits adults as well. And while it's definitely sweet it doesn't go overboard in that department either. To my nose, it doesn't fall into the category of make-up/lipstick scents, although it does have the powdery pinkness in common with that genre. But for me it lacks the waxy and/or strongly musky aspect of typical makeup scents, and instead it has a definite quasi-gourmand vibe from the sweet (but not sugary) fruity notes, which I love. It's quite longlasting with above average projection as well: another sign of high quality. It's not the kind of scent that fits any mood or weather, but on days when you need some well-balanced sweetness it can be just what the doctor ordered. The only downside is that it's so expensive: I think French Kiss is wonderful, but I'm not sure if I'd pay full price for a bottle...we'll have to see what happens when (or if?) my decant runs out.