Oriental Brulant

Beautifully balanced. This is wonderful. Smells a little like guet apens which appeared from Guerlain in 1999 and has since been transformed into Royal Extract. This also has citrus and spice, vanilla, almonds and sugar. I love it. It develops really rather wonderfully and I cannot stop sniffing my wrist. Eyewateringly pricey but on the plus side you do get 125ml. The bottle and packaging are divine. For me this is the best from the coloured bottle line - having tried all of them in Harrods this week.

Fragrance Review For Oriental Brulant By Guerlain Top Notes Tangerine Herbal Notes Middle Notes Almond Base Notes Vanilla Tonka Styrax Another discontinued beauty that should make a comeback. This was a gourmand version of Rue de la Paix by Guerlain. This is a very delicious almond scent with vanilla bean and extract. It is classified as an Oriental but only because of the presence of styrax. A true Oriental has sandalwood and patchouli in it. But Oriental or not this is heavenly vanilla, particularly in the dry down. This came as a splash bottle of perfume, very retro and appealing to me as a vintage lover and perfume bottle collector. The opening is herbal with green notes, they smell like green moss or herbs, the scent that comes out of botanica or botanical garden. But it is not overpowering at all. In fact the color that came to mind was not green at all but a cream color. Before long the tangerine note gives this scent a fruity charm and brings it out of the greenness and into the realm of the feminine fruit. A sweet fresh citrus, and for whatever reason, the combination of green notes and citrus, this starts to smell like a rose. At the end of the performance of the top notes, this is a lovely lush citrusy rose scent. The heart is an almond, spicy and woodsy and I would not be surprised if this was an almond wood note. The heart is small. It does not wear for very long and in fact it's a strange sort of progression from citrus, herbs, rose and down to styrax-vanilla. The almond is spicy, nutty, woodsy, and a bit sweet. There is also a balsamic touch, just a bit. It has a vanilla in the end that is to die for. I loved this perfume and found it became increasingly powdery as it developed but it was never too powdery for me. The fragrance doesn't last very long and yet it was memorable. I used to wear this to work and being the boss/CEO I don't mind wearing even stronger scents than this. This was formal but relaxed, went well with white suits and pant suits in the summer. I hope to God they bring this back. It's too bad Guerlain fragrances come and go when some of them should just stay!

Darn, this is one of my favorite scents of all time. I'd love to have this bottle, but the juice is the SAME. For that price you should get pure parfum, not EDP! The scent is so amazing though. If I had loads of money, I'd probably buy this because it's gorgeous and the scent is mesmerizing! Definitely an oriental gourmand, imo.

If anyone has one of these colored quadrilobe bottles I am actively searching to purchase one if anyone would like to get ride of one.

Absolutely in love with my 75ml bottle. If anyone in the states has large decants of this or partial bottle to sell, pls message me