L'Heure Bleue by Guerlain Eau de Parfum Spray / 2.5 fl.oz. 75ml

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The day I met my fiancée, kissing twenty two years old, my fiancée who is my soul, who is the love of all my lives before and all the lives to come, who is my etching and my mercy, the solemn core of my heart, I was riven with an almost catatonic ecstasy and fear. By the time you’re doing your mascara, you’ll realize this has settled into something quite lovely and special. Crisp, earthy, contemplative; somehow iris and powdery scents just feel right on me, as a moody girl with dark hair and a cool white complexion.

All of that said, if I had to choose from all of the above for a Most Memorable, Evocative, Emotional scent? That's why we are partners in the major cultural, musical and sports events that punctuate the Souirie year.Of course Jacques Guerlain understood that the lavishly sweet, "sucrée" notes in this fragrance would never cloy if they had that medicinal thyme counterbalancing them. I got this one at the same time with Shalimar, Mitsouko, Mon Guerlain, Bagatelle, Spirituese, and Samsara. Encaustic waxy goodness, spicy carnations, luscious florals and sweet oriental tobacco from the guerlinade, almost gourmand.

There is also a fizziness in this that I can't really put my finger on, it reminds me of aldehydes but that can't be it, as they only appeared in perfumes after 1921 and I don't think they were randomly added to L'Heure Bleue in later formulations.

The powdery notes are what first struck me and even after 5 hrs, are still soft with the other notes blending in and wearing well. One spray of this immediately made my temples start throbbing, it was definitely overwhelming at first. This is for people who want something vintage and beautiful like Chanel No5, but who don't get along with jasmine.

An analogy might be how some people react to Van Gogh’s Starry Night or how I react when I hear the final movement of Beethoven’s 9th symphony. When I wear the old Guerlains Shalimar, Vol de Nuit, Mitsouko, Chamade, Chant d'Aromes, L'Heure Bleue, and for good measure my signature Samsara, sometimes I think I can just be vintage lady and bask only in these masterpieces of Olfactive Art. In summary, this scent starts loud, climaxes to melancholy, and then that golden loudness is echoed in a meditative dance of memory. But I think I will have to pass on anything from Guerlain as their brand tends to create powdery fragrances which don't work on me. The final notes of powdery vanilla in the last chapter are the most feminine and are memories of an era that is passed.Today, he carries with him a small golden vile with this perfume, telling me “it is you”, taking comfort in the absurdly soft, terribly angelic and sad perfume, that I will wear for the rest of my life.

By the bluish light of evening, the remembrance of a treasured love, silken sheets, a secret longing, memories, and the ebbing warmth of the heart's flush. I thought I’d never get on with it but it opened out to a very interesting violet/floral note with some spicy background from the cloves. This is incredibly romantic and cheerful, though very classical and a bit restrained, and despite the name's reference to a specific time of the day at dusk, this really evokes early, bright blue spring mornings with birds singing amongst the flowers. If Mitsouko is the mysterious, aloof sister, L'Heure Bleue is the slightly more approachable, warm one. I was so happy the day I purchased it at the Guerlain boutique, a little time capsule of my own, to be brought into a new age.This fragrance is everything that is fabulous about Shalimar to the nth degree - but an indefinable "ever so much more so" without being loud or cloying. L'Heure Bleue has a piquant citrusy top note of lemon and bergamot infused with a medicinal Belle Époque twilit quality: an aromatic bouqet of French thyme, anise, and cloves cutting through a sweet and creamy neroli and vanilla base. I once read somewhere that the word "nostalgia" was derived from the greek roots of "Path" and "To Look Back".