Annam

All these Tan Giudicelli scents were available on a catalogue , where Agnes B make up , and much more other rather fancy cosmetics were sold . One day , I have been able to buy a box of a selection of samples . Annam was among them . I really loved this scent right away. It was , what I call a "Blanket perfume" , it was sweet , but not a "silly", gross sweet scent like there is so many nowadays . It smelled like vanilla rice pudding , without beeing to foody though . Really fantastic smelling I so much wanted it , but it was really expensive ( even the 30ml bottle ) and as a mere high school girl I couldn't afford it . And now , here's the really weird thing about this scent : Remember my sample box ? Well , I had completely forgoten about it , and one day, while cleaning up , I found it again , opened the box and realized that ...how can I tell .... the cheap plastic thing that there is sometimes to keep the samples in order ... Well the part around the Annam sample cap's had ... melted ... there was a hole in the plastic ! (Around the other samples it was all normal )How can this be ? I sometimes really wonder what do they put in perfumes' formula :-/

Such an intriguing perfume. A bed of synthetic banana flavoring with a fascinating bitter bead at its center. It's driven to banana specifically I believe by tuberose. Smooth, relaxing scent; the smell of off-white, pearl, superclear water, stalks of bamboo. A specific breed of clean. Doesn't last very long unfortunately :( This fragrance is so rare, you can't even bare to re-apply it ! It begins sweetly, then that bitter tinge comes, rolls back, & that remaining sweetness fades into a nice musk. It's utterly unique ! A journey that lasts just 2-3 hours on me. I feel that this can be worn at any season at any time. Green & clean for spring/summer, sweet & soothing for fall/winter. Something you wear when you are feeling a way rather than a compliment to your surroundings. This perfume is quite hard to find. I've found a few bottles (even 50mL) on Japanese & Russian secondhand sites, but unfortunately they do not ship internationally :( I would love so much to get a bigger bottle of this. A favorite. I got a 1/2 decant of this from theperfumedcourt for $11.89 USD

I love this perfume. I still have a bottle of it that I use very sparingly just when I want a nice dose of nostalgia. I recently made a blind buy of Bond No 9 Lexington Avenue and at first spritz I was immediately reminded of Annam Tan Giudicelli. Of course Bond scents are rather pricey, but the nice thing about the Lexington Avenue was that it stayed with me all day long. I am glad to have found a substitute since Annam Tan was discontinued long ago.

This perfume was the first I really loved: I bought it blindly without testing. Bingo! Love at first sniff. It was lightly sweet and lightly bitter, milky, unique, difficult to describe. I never found a similar perfume except from Sensuous Estée Lauder; it formed my future liking of scent; I'm always searching for a perfume that would remember me of Annam. Update 02.12.2022: This is Her by Zadig & Voltaire smells the closest to Annam I ever tested.

So special and nostalgic to me because it smells exactly like the Sanrio Store / 00s Japanese stationery