Guimauve

I love this one - although once the top notes fade a little, it's quite a simple perfume, an "artisanal" marshmallow perfume, (I think basic is the wrong word - it isn't, & it's VERY French, I really do like it, it's lovely,) but I often spray it, & they layer it, later - some ppl say it's quite "flat" after the top notes, & I see what they're getting at - but no; some of those Paco Rabanne (& even JPG, now) ALL made by Puig, unfortunately - dry down to a v flat, cheap-y vanilla base - that they buy by the millions of gallons, no doubt - & boy are they flat, but this isn't, but it is, quite simple, in the far dry down - so if that's not for you, then maybe try a different one - & if you're looking for a less expensive Killian LDBS - then you want Dragee (which I find a little bit too mandarin orange, a little bit "thick" maybe almost a little "syrupy') - but then I struggle with any "too food-y" gourmande - & with Dragee - for all it's noticeable mandarin orange - it's just not a gourmande with a "fresh" / citrussy aspect - it's just v foodie indeed, & as said, a thick one; there's also a slightly soapy quality to me, too - it's merely ok, & not my thing, tbh - but I 100% do, prefer Dragee to LDBS, (bc LDBS is a bit too much, & way too syrupy/orange blossom - so there it is. I wouldn't say this was toothpaste-y - & I certainly don't find any Lily of the Valley, or similar; tbh the floral accord in here is v subtle, (& I'm thinking more like clover; la Guerlain AA Herba Fresca - but only a little, & some, subtle orange blossom, in here) - & nowhere near as much, as in Killian LDBS, or even Dragee (although Dragee does hv some similarities with Guimauve, but I prefer this so much, more - it is true to it's name, it really does smell like French country, artisanal, guimauve. Actually, I do have to be in mood, to wear Rem Guimauve - hv to want to wear a "marshmallow perfume" - & I don't wear it everyday, (unless away, for a weekend/long weekend etc - just occasionally, but it's lovely (it's maybe not a super hot weather wear, obvs) - but the mint/lavende/rosemary/vanille marshmallow-goodness, I find to be so v French, maybe even a little vintage; am in Paris, Grenoble, (& in Northern France,) quite a bit outside of the pandemic - & during the worst of the pandemic, this has always reminded me of being there + it's such a great, cuddly, comfort perfume, if that's what you feel like. Spray 3, or 4 times - & it's gentle but present, 3 more than 4, rlly - bc it is a true gourmande perfume - & more could be too much. It isn't though one of those gourmand perfumes that after 10 minutes you hv to wash off, bc it's gotten to be too much - sprayed lightly, this is subtle & beautiful - although as said, the top notes may surprise some - the mint is good, the rosemary/lavende etc may come as a surprise to some; it's quite "herbal" almost, in the beginning - & the ambergris throughout gives a richness & a much more substantial nature, even if it is, almost delicate - & bc of these thgs, you wouldn't mistake this for any mainstream, U.S, designer perfume - it's v European, & definitely "artisanal" - less sugar, less mass produced & less than most standard gourmandes - & definitely all the better for it. There is something just slightly bitter & "herbal" through this, alongside the ambergris, within the mix of this gorgeous, not too sweet marshmallow accord - & to me, Rem did an amazing job - it's not like any other perfume, amongst my several hundred bottles;I must not, must not, must not, order any more - until at least after Christmas, or this time next year, more like) - ppl on Fragrantica are the worst enablers; I blame you all!

Amazing MARSHMALLOW that pulls together diverse elements... Once the spray dries and the sillage starts to open up, I can feel the powdery almond accented by citrus, fresh-spicy & aromatic nuances. I don't know how they did it, but the overall effect, even in the opening, is "guimauve", or marshmallow. As it transitions to the heart it gets sweeter and white-florals emerge including neroli & jasmine with clean, fluffy, sweet, green & spicy nuances that are all somehow pressed into the service of the marshmallow effect. As it's drying down, the vanilla comes more forward, while tonka here leans to the powdery, sweet, soft-spicy, woody & tobacco-flower facets, rather than the fruity aspects. Musk and sandalwood here fluff up the marshmallow with creamy sweetness. Overall you get an amazing fresh marshmallow that's nuanced from the powdery exterior, to the pillow-y softness, to the creamy sweet interior. The performance is slightly above average for year round wear. This was love at first scent for me. 10/10. Enjoy! Contrast to Love Don't Be Shy By Kilian: These are different, but there are similarities with a marshmallow vibe. Love Don't Be Shy has a more forward caramel quality in the drydown, while Guimauve keeps it in the range of powdery marshmallow sweetness. Guimauve has stronger performance. Update 03/09/25: Have been wearing this off and on over the last few days. It's so creamy marshmallow-y, but I was also struck by an impression of orange-blossom although it's not listed int he notes. It's stayed on my coat for 3 or 4 days so far. I paired it with Orange Flower Oscar de la Renta to bring the impression of orange-blossom out even further. I can pick out all the notes if I look for them, but the first 4 ranked notes are the most dominant (vanilla, almond, tonka, neroli). Love it a lot.

another perfume that i would've missed out on based only on the notes and main accords. i love this perfume so much. it reminds me of a dollhouse, dusted with marshmallows powders. powdery marshmallows, a bit minty but it keeps the fragrance from being too sweet. there's also a bit of soft, cute sweater-wearing grandma vibes and sugary, powdery scent that i love about this. it's a very... cute fragrance!! it's soft and fluffy and the minty note really does bring a layer of fresh attitude to this scent that is otherwise a little dollhouse named 'guimauve'! 💗 [this is my ideal day to day, comforting and cozy and huggable fragrance. it's a dollhouse for sure and i want to be a doll so badly so it's perfect for me, haha. when someone says "you smell like your house" type of fragrance and this is the fragrance 😍 i really do live in a house that looks like a dollhouse so it feels very personalized] also: i know about this perfume from gabbylovesperfumes, she mentioned the three within this set and she was very accurate even down to the mint being a tad unpleasant 😅, but the reviewer who really sold it was chrissylove. she mentioned it smells like hotel shampoo and i love chic and stylized, romantic hotel settings. preferably if there are surrounding palm trees, jazzy music playing, a café within the resort, cool winter air, something about it is artistically sleazy and i just really love it 💘🌴🌹

The PERFECT blend of green/gourmand! I am a lover of both of those genres, and this is the best of both worlds! Guimauve is such a beautifully blended fragrance and honestly surprised me with how much I enjoy it. I can definitely appreciate the LDBS references from the neroli, but I don't find Guimauve nearly as cloying. I know a few reviewers have stated that this marshmallow is much more of a powdery take, like the outside dusting of an artisan marshmallow. I would say this is a pretty accurate description. The powdery-ness of this fragrance is also reminiscent of 'chalkier' candies like candy hearts or Neccos. Honestly, this is the first fragrance I have come across described as "powdery" and I am not immediately reminded of old ladies when I smell it. The notes truly work so well together to make this a light girly scent. Even my boyfriend commented and said this smelled "pink" and "girly", which is a pretty good description from him! haha Overall, I actually prefer Guimauve to LDBS. I find this to be comparable, but I definitely wouldn't call this a dupe by any means. This is a good option if you also find LDBS to be cloying. Uplifting green notes balance the fragrance but may be off-putting to some. Good year-round fragrance and I find myself reaching for this one VERY frequently!

I am surprised that people list this as a predominantly winter scent as to me this is a brilliant sunny summers day smell. It has been properly hot here today, not just "British hot" which seems to be quite cool by the standards of some! But today, clear blue skies, the sun shining down, the temperature hitting 28 degrees Celsius and this perfume smelled fantastic! As others have said this is a really "pretty" smell that luckily does not venture into the categories of cloying, sickly sweet or cheap smelling. It has quite an airy feel, projecting well and creating a lovely gentle aura of scent around the body. While I have worn and enjoyed this during much cooler weather and enjoyed it, for me it really shines in the warmth of summer. I also find that this scent reminds me quite a lot of Guerlain La Plus Beau Jour de ma Vie, not quite the same but for me very similar, which is an added bonus. Longevity is moderate to long lasting and projection of about 2 feet. Definitely one worth trying, it is now going very definitely into my Want list.

I used to own Love Don't Be Shy and it had an off note on my skin that reminded me of a warm locker room. It might read sexy on some folks, but on me I couldn't stop feeling self-conscious. I eventually sold that bottle, but I was a little sad about it. I love marshmallow scents. I recently acquired Guimauve Reminiscence for a cheap price with low expectations. Reminiscence has that same marshmallow-y blossom that I enjoyed so much in Love Don't Be Shy without any of the BO accord.. Don't let the note pyramid deceive you, it all blends together into a candied white floral, sweet and decadent--just like the cute bottle. I can't really detect any rosemary, mint, or lavender but I can speculate that together with vanilla these could read powdery sweet like marshmallow. Projection is LOUD, it will fill the room, so two sprays are really all you need. I put it on at 6am, went on a run, drank coffee, ran errands, and came home. Six hours later, I still smell it. A great scent for a hot day, but I could see it wearing well in cool weather too.

Finally put my hands on the third bottle of this lovely collection. First: I love the packaging, vintage and pastel, perfect for a romanic woman of any age. The line is gourmand but not overly sweet and powerful, it is actually a french, grown-up and refined gourmand, with a complex and well balanced pyramid of ingredients. This one in the line, Guimauve, is my preferred one. I never ate french marshmallows (guimauve) but I love this complex scent that is pleasant, cozy, comforting. Every single note is not easy to detect, there is definitely an almond accord with petit grain, lavender and neroli, then jasmin and neroli will prevail. The beauty of this fragrance is mainly the skills to be a strong memories-evocative scent, able to brings you back 'reminiscences' of dolls and fragrant countryside. My second preferred is Dragee, which is very (too) similar, while I have mixed feelings for Heliotrope. It is truly an hidden gem, safe office scent, safe blind buy if you love gourmand fragrances. Recommended 4/5

Such a strong opening on a blind buy, I thought I'd hit the jackpot with this beauty. I had, but it didn't last. Sadly it totally vanished from sight (or rather, nostril) after only an hour. I wondered if I'd maybe not sprayed enough, so give myself another seven or eight, all over. All that remains is a beautiful and delicate powdery rose on my clothes. It's totally gone from my skin. I keep getting the most delightful whiffs as I move, from the top I'm wearing and I so wish the longevity was better. I'd pay more if it was, please note Reminiscence! It puts me off buying more in their range, in honesty. Such a promising opening, strong medicinal mixed with powder, like walking into an old world sweet shop or pharmacy. Dries down to powdery hints of rosey musk, with sandalwood and ambergris wafting in and out. I ADORE THIS but it makes me sad that I'm going to end up going through it faster than a body spray, for the price.

It's interesting how polarized this perfume is when it comes to comparing it to Love don't be shy. I tried my LDBS sample yesterday and recieved Guimauve in the mail today. The opening isn't quite alike LDBS. I pick up a lot of mint (which is outstanding here!) lavender and bergamot. But during the dry down I definitely smell LDBS here. It's not as sickeningly sweet and cloying as LDBS is, but apart from that they are TRULY very very similar! Guimauve is in fact more wearable. I think Love don't be shy is way too juvenile even though I love it, but since guimauve doesn't have that prominent marshmallow note it is it a more sophisticated. As I said - they ARE very similar! And guimauve is MUCH more affordable. I paid around 30 euros for my beautiful 100 ml bottle. Great longevity too! If you love LDBS but think it's too expensive, give this one a go! Dossier made a great dupe of it too called floral marshmallow.

OMG! After three years of search, finally! It seems I kept missing out on this one every time it was available on Fragrancenet or FragranceX, but after setting a notification to be sent when it's available again, I finally scored a bottle, for a whopping 30 bucks! I just opened it, and I honestly can't say what wowed me more, the bottle or the magic liquid inside of it. However, i can not really call Guimauve a gourmand, even though that is what this perfume is supposed to be. I definitely smelled this before, way back when i was a little girl (i am in my 40's now). I am not sure what it was, someone's perfume or someone's face/hand cream, but I smelled this before, and a long time ago. It has a vintage feel, so it might be an acquired taste for those who prefer sweet, modern fragrances. As for me, I consider this one of my top 20 in my collection. Absolutely amazing.

A gourmand that's not too sweet, but soft, fluffy,airy and a bit powdery. Yes I get marshmallows, but it reminds me more of a type of meringue cream that my grandmother used for her cakes. It's such a soothing and comforting scent, and soo different from other gourmands. Like it's in a category of its own. It's so well blended that it's hard to distinguish individual notes. But it takes me places... somewhere in France, at a patisserie, a young petite lady dressed in pastel colors is waiting in line and this is scent trail she leaves behind. You feel like an airy meringue is hugging you. Life is not so bad. Another thing I must mention is that this has a soft sillage, as it should. It would probably be suffocating any other way. It's a scent you wear for yourself, when you want to feel comforted and cuddled. Even better if you have a special someone to cuddle with :)

I expected Guimauve to be a mainly lavender and vanilla fragrance, which is a note combination I absolutely love. Well, Guimauve isn‘t quite that, but I love it nevertheless. It‘s a wonderful mix of sweet and fresh. Ultra-creamy vanilla, tonka and almond combined with a lot of cooling mint, green and herbal notes and just a smidge of lavender, rounded with a beautiful neroli note. If this is a marshmallow (=guimauve), it‘s a gourmet artisanal one, or maybe even more of a marshmallow fluff. It‘s not powdery and dry, just extremely fluffy and creamy, like a cloud of pastel pinks, greens and yellows swirling into each other, smooth, well-blended and one of a kind. A multifaceted gourmand, girly and somewhat innocent, but with depth. It starts out quite intense but becomes more mellow quickly, so I‘d say this is ideal for daytime wear. It makes me happy to smell this :)

I have to admit that I barely wear this fragrance. I am wearing it today because I have a bit of rosemary oil in my hair so I picked a perfume that had a rosemary note hoping they would pair nicely together. Well, well, well! I am loving Guimauve more than any other time I've worn it. It’s sitting so pretty and really developing in this mild Midwest winter weather. I'm able to detect more of the individual notes now, than during summer. I finally smell the citrus and green brightness. It's not pulling too sweet or cloying. It's more a dusty sweetness, not so powdery. Very lovely! This smells nothing like LDBS. Similar vibe, although to me LDBS is very thick in sweetness, while Guimauve is airy in comparison and is a beauty all its own. It's quite soft and doesn't project too far. A close comfort, if you will.

This lovely gourmand fragrance has quickly become one of my top five favorites. While still drying, its mostly about the mint and citrus. Then for a lengthy period, Guimauve reminds me very specifically of Evening in Missoula tea (give it a quick Google), the herbal tea version of Dr Pepper or rootbeer. After a couple hours, this herbal accord transforms into the most delicate marshmallow note. I've read other reviews suggesting it smells like the powdered cover of an undisturbed marshmallow. I agree. Guimauve creates a personal scent bubble without much projection... which is fine by me. I love wearing this to bed... I can still smell marshmallow in the morning. I also love Reminiscence's Heliotrope (powdery marscapone), and Dragee (powdery, woody gourmand). But Guimauve is my favorite. Love this! 🦋🧡🦋

It's a nice scent and I definitely smell the lavender, mint, and vanilla in it through the initial spray. The sillage is only "arms linked" or if someone gets within your circle with only spraying yourself 3x times.......now maybe you might need 6 to 8 sprays but I feel it would eventually choke you or the next man, woman, or child out with that many sprays" if in the same room" lol. Now at the dry down, I do get a slight bit of Killian "Love Don't Be Shy" vibe but it's only a tiny bit......it might be due to the tangerine, orange, neroli, or other green notes. It's also leans a bit powdery/sweet and It lasted 2 hours on my skin but I have yet to spray it on my clothes to see how it performs. I see this being worn in the spring, summer night "when it's cool" and fall.

This is heaven in a scent. I have been wearing it this past 6 months my husband adores it on me and always ask what is that perfume its lovely. Now I have a lot like most here but this is a new favorite. The scent is warm sensual and very beautiful, all the notes make it a gourmand but also a perfect oriental vanilla. The jasmine, almonds vanilla etc all compliment one another. Its not overpowering in any way just a scent that leaves you feeling very warm and reminds a little of Angel and John Galliano both favorites. This is a little more subtle but very beautiful its intoxicating and its so fresh and sweet when first on with a lovely dry down that is warm and sexy with a fresh twist. One for the ladies who know who they are. Enjoy it and treat yourself.

This is such a weird fragrance! I love it! When i first spray it on me it smells like menthol and bubblegum, then it evolves into a sort of powdery almond and rosemary scent that smells a bit soapy on me but in a very fresh clean sort of way. I cant stop smelling my wrist as its ever changing and so interesting. Finally it settles into a sweet spun sugar scent, sort of a grown up candy floss. When I first put it on I was very unsure, but the more I wore it the more I loved it. Im surprised by the amount of people who said this was a winter or night fragrance, as I think this is absolutely daytime, and probably all year. Its a bit too innocent for night time. I am very glad I blind bought and added to my collection.

This is just beautiful..hands down. From the feel of the box and design of it, to the pink and gold bottle with bow as an extra added touch, to the fragrance itself. I’m actually in awe at how pretty it is and that’s the word that sums this one up for me. It was a blind buy but I figured I’d be displaying that bottle either way and in first spray my eyes may have rolled back a little. It’s powdery, citrusy, musky, a touch bitter and sweet all rolled into one. I know it’s compared to LDBS but to me this is seriously it’s own fragrance. Longevity was amazing with 10+ hours and had moderate sillage. I expected this one to be super soft but most definitely is not. It’s a love for me

Whoever is voting this to be a dupe for LDBS, needs to get themselves checked. You should spend more time with both of these perfumes, obviously, and not samples off of ebay, but full authentic bottles. They are nothing alike. I have and wear both.GR has a sharp note that cuts like a blade over your jawline, and it screams mature, sexy woman. LDBS is practically sweetness of the entire World, packaged, more appropriate for girls under 30, even though i wear it at my glorious 49. This misinformation that is running lately on Fragrantica is worrisome. I wonder how many people are missing out on great perfumes because of others buying questionable samples on the internet.

If I had a beautiful and feminine daughter, with a sweet and sunshiney disposition -- this would no doubt be her scent. This is drop dead pretty, people! To me it is definitely of the Loukhoum family. Reminds me very much of the Keiko Mecheri scents that are Loukhoums. I have a large decant of Loukhoum Poudre, and that fragrance fills my space for this type of almond, powdery and puffy goodness. But if I didn't have the KM, I would surely get a nice decant of this pretty gal. She is something that doesn't suit my "persona" but I can wear her at home, especially in bed. Cuddly delicate deliciousness. I'll bet my man will enjoy snuggling with me wearing this. ;)