Terracotta Le Parfum

3 comments down by ‘Jade-Ange D’ is exactly what I smell. The bergamot, orange blossom & musk are the notes I don’t catch at all. It’s a coconut-tiare, turns to yylang, turns to creamy round soft cozy vanilla. I do not get powdery from this. I do get slightly mature vibes from the cozy vanilla floral. Compared to BEACHWALK, This is more creamy yellow floral AND more of a cozy vanilla. Beachwalk is salty, Terracotta is not Compared to Aerin HIBISCUS PALM, this is less fresh, and less spicy (terracotta is not spicy at all to me), but they have same amount of coconut and floral to my nose. Again, Terracotta more creamy floral. Soleil Blanc EDP also same fam, with Terracotta being slightly more creamy floral, but these 2 are more close than with the other 2, for me . Terracotta having more floral weight than Soleil Blanc. But the level of smoothness is there. I kept seeing reviews and comparisons saying that Aerin Hibiscus Palm was the more modern version of Terracotta and I’d have to agree with that. The ginger note & the palm note add the spice and fresh to this scent profile, and the less prominent vanilla gives HP more energy, less coziness. HOWEVER, when I wear one on each arm (AERIN & GUERLAIN) and sniff throughout the day, I have to sniff Aerin kind of shallow, if I sniff Aerin too close and too deeply the ginger note stings up in my sinus a bit and I don’t enjoy that feeling, so I don’t go too deep with it. But I BREATHE in Terracotta, huff it in and it’s dreamy and creamy! So in conclusion I enjoy them all very very much, all 4 are FBW for me. Guerlain Terracotta is the safer cozier creamy floral one, and Hibiscus Palm Aerin is the fresher colder spicier one. I think Soleil Blanc is becoming my favorite one. But between these 3, only talking small differences in balance, not full on differences. If you are obsessed with this family of perfume, you’ll want them all like I did. They are definitely way different enough for me to need all 3 (I could skip beachwalk now that I found the other 3) Terracotta fits literally any occasion year round. I don’t think any other beach fragrances can do that for me. Maybe soleil Blanc.., But Terracotta is a masterpiece! I absolutely love it!

I purchased this blind a couple of years ago after reading reviews on here. I absolutely love the smell of Jasmine plus the coconut and vanilla highlight summer vibes to me plus I was looking for a hot Summer day/night fragrance... Guerlain do pretty much everything right so I thought I couldn't go wrong! At first I LOVED this fragrance so much that I purchased a back up thinking it would be my signature Summer scent. But I think it will be years before the bottle is finished because it's so strong that one spray is all you need. I spray it out in front of me and walk into it. I live in the tropics which this scent is capturing well but that may make this scent extra thick in the humid air, it may wear better in other climates and not feel so strong... It's possibly the perfect evening scent for Summer! EDIT 2023: I tried this on again the other day, and I still find it strong from the first spray, but I think after about 5 hours it was completely gone, but if I spray it o my clothes it will hang around for a couple of days. I also tested Tom Ford soleil blanc the other day, the scent is pretty much the same as Terracotta but soleil blanc is a skin scent for most of the day and much weaker than terracotta. CONCLUSION: Terracotta is much better value and it's stronger so just take a decant to reapply. EDIT 2024: Okay so this has been the summer of Terracotta! 😍 I'm no longer spraying like I'm scared to stand out! I'm going in with confidence and spraying 2-3 on each arm, 3 around the neck and a few in my hair and it's DIVINE! I'm even layering it with some coconut oil to really bring the coconut vibes, and I'm getting lots of compliments. I do feel this is a holiday vacation type of scent, great tropical vibes. I live in a subtropical climate near the beach and this totally rocks here, I've actually got 2 back up bottles, I never want to run out of it 🥰 Getting closer to 8 hours now, longer on clothes.

I wanted this for years but it wasn't available anywhere except from the resellers who tripled the price, as there were discontinuation rumors. I never even got to sample it, I wrote off the chance of me ever snagging a bottle. Fast forward a few years later and I finally got a bottle! According to the batch code, my bottle is from 2014 and smells heavenly. I was a bit surprised, though, as the scent is definitely *very* familiar... I love white florals and have been sampling everything I come across for many years. I would say there are many newer perfumes that have tried to copy this scent. The closest smelling perfume I've found to this is Gucci Bloom. The second closest is a perfume I own called Patio by Botanicae (more popular in europe, available on 50ml.com and some other euro import perfume shops). This is a million times better than Bloom, IMO. I bought a FB of Bloom years ago, tried it 2-3 times, and gleefully resold it. I wanted tuberose from Bloom, I never got any. It was a synthetic faux powder lily scent through and through. It was nothing more than an overly blended to the point that you cannot distinguish notes "sheer" ultra light misty perfume that disappeared on my skin after 30 min, maybe an hour max. I never had these performance issues with any Bloom smell-alike type of scent =. Terracotta opens a touch indolic and "vintagey", rapidly dries down and morphs into an ultra luxe high quality version of Bloom, then dries down to a more tuberose dominant monoi scent, that still reminds me of Bloom but oh so much better. Absolutely love this. I own a couple of similar scents, and don't tell them, but once I finish those I will be replacing them with Terracotta. A forever staple in my collection as long as they don't discontinue it!

I love the Guerlain house! Terracotta is another magnificent creation from Thierry Wasser. This is a Solar perfume, with floral notes that are not always solar but in this case it contains the sophisticated note of Ylang-ylang as well as jasmine sambac, orange blossom and the distinguished tiare flower. It is definitely not a fragrance that opens in a sparkling and cheerful way. Terracotta opens warm, representing the Sun that warms the skin. (It was created in 2014 in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of terracotta makeup, which gave them a tan color on their faces) It is not a perfume only to be used in summer, this is a very warm and sweet fragrance that I will also enjoy in autumn-winter since the opening is not entirely fresh, I can barely detect the citrus part of the bergamot but I can detect the florality of the same, accompanied by an exquisite creaminess of coconut and tiare flower (similar to Frangipani) which is also a creamy flower and combined with Ylang-ylang leave this fragrance even more sunny and warm. The vanilla and musk also make this perfume wonderful on my skin giving me the feeling of walking in the Dunes on a sunny day. Or inside an elegant and luxurious hotel in tropical areas. This fragrance does not represent a day at the beach, salty notes and sea sand. It is not that type of Solar. Terracotta provides more warmth. It is a perfume that wraps you in a warm embrace of the Sun. The substantivity on my skin is excellent, it reaches 7/8 hours with moderate to slight diffusion. It's just lovely. A soft, delicate, feminine and very elegant perfume.

I think that Terracotta may be my most favorite tiare/tropical flowers fragrance ever! It is so smooth and creamy, with that lovely and warm vanillic guerlinade base and smooth blending of tropical white and yellow flowers. The coconut is noticeable in the top notes, but it does not smother the other notes as coconut in tropical fragrances typically does. The tiare is the star in the top notes and is the most noticeable note in this fragrance, with its beautiful and tropical white floralcy. The orange blossom is the next most prominent note to me, followed by the jasmine and then the ylang ylang. I feel like I am at a tropical garden by the beach that is filled with beautiful flowers and I am watching a luau while there in the afternoon and summer sun. I got medium sillage and a medium longevity of about 4 and a half to 5 hours on my skin. I would say that Terracotta Le Parfum is sweeter than both Bronze Goddess Eau Fraiche and Just Cavalli by Just Cavalli. Terracotta is also more floral than Bronze Goddess Eau Fraiche and has less coconut in it and Terracotta is about muptiple tropical flowers, whereas Just Cavalli is really only about the tiare flower. I love and own all 3 of them, but I think that Terracotta is my favorite. The round bottle with the gold sun on it is very beautiful and very Guerlain as well. You can tell that this fragrance is a very high quality product and I would give a 9.2 altogether for Terracotta Le Parfum by Guerlain. It is simply stunning and I am glad I blind bought it!