Myrrhe & Delires

This seems to be a new possible direction that Maison Guerlain has taken: indeed this fragrance is so different from their previous classy and traditional ones: no more 'guerlinade' and their 'famous vanilla' is rather undetectable here. This is correct - after all - Thierry Wasser has a different signature compared to that of Jacques Guerlain. (This is not either a critic or a comparison!) In any case it doesn't have betrayed the old style. Not indeed. Lovely and really above any genre: is it thought for women? No, certainly. Is it for men? Not, exactly. As usual it must suit you, this is the main rule, for me, being my skin so subdued to Guerlain'frags it's a sort of 'predicted marriage'..... I've only a pale deja-vu, as it reminds me the vintage Balenciaga's 'Quadrille' though the latter was more pronounced and may be I've just a fade memory of it. Good persistence, 'very polite' projection and sillage. The dry down is comfortably tendre, NOT childish, anyway. If you like good patchouli notes, you should try this, as the patchouli used here, is remarkably gentle, up-to-date but 'natural', even though not hippy-style, at all if I can say. 3 billions thanks to you, my dear Kosmoskukka, for this beautiful, fragrant surprise! ; )

Wow... This one is REALLY beautiful! It is like nothing I've ever smelled before, honestly. Totally not at all how I expected it either, as I was picturing some burnt, harsh, brutish thing.. M&D couldn't be any more different though! To me, Myrrhe & Delires smells like an old fashioned, dark chocolate bar filled with the most decadent pineapple cream inside. I can even picture the golden, coppery foil it would be wrapped in. How charming! I don't know why I smell pineapple in this one, but I do. It has to be the bergamot and grapefruit, but it smells so much more like pineapple to me. At any rate, this is simply a GORGEOUS perfume. EDIT: Silly me! It's the osmanthus I'm smelling! That has to be where the tropical pineapple element comes from! And I thought osmanthus were supposed to smell like apricot... Oh well - apricot or pineapple, same difference! All I know is that it's this tropical, fruity tone (osmanthus + citrus) that has Myrrhe & Delires transformed from simply "good" to absolutely gorgeous. This is a scent with several layers, it's not a linear one for sure! As all the other releases from this line, M&D lasts for a very long time and projects really well. Bravo Guerlain. 10/10!

This is extraordinarily magnificent. I think this is my new favorite perfume. 9/10 easily if not a 9.5. What am I saving 10 for? I guess heaven, but this is so close. I feel like there aren't words to describe this. Myrrh is mentioned again and again in the bible, and mentioned in hadith. It has an undeniable holy smell, something you feel historically connected to. There is some slight powder, but nothing overwhelming. There is a slight fruity sweetness, something warm from the vanilla. Some hints of floral, a distant memory of smoke. And all of that helps to lift and shape the myrrh. I think it's to die for, so comforting, so subtle in it's sweetness, coying and shy but still bold and gallant with an earthy, woody richness. Marvelous. Breaks my heart that it's discontinued, hopefully I find a bottle eventually.

In a word, sublime. Never seen it in any of the stores here in Sydney, I purchased Bois D’Armenie today and had a moan about that useless bulb dispenser. The fabulous Sales Assistant dashed out the back and found an old tester of Myrrhe and Delires with about 1cm left at the bottom and said I could have it and swap the spray cap over (although as it turned out, the Bois D’Armenie bottle version spray thing isn’t swappable). However, I got to keep the tester! I had sprayed that on my arm in store and when I got back to the office, a couple of the boys told me I smelled like lipstick...clearly that’s the violets. Captivating...I see a few bottles are going for ludicrous prices on eBay so I am going to have to eke out what’s left in mine.

well - maybe not exactely like a baby BUT.... had the chance to smell it saturday - rare to fall in love with a perfume these days but i did from the very first moment the lovely lady sprayed it onto my wrist - ordered and bought within 2 minutes - great work mr wasser