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

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Something I've noticed: when I spray too close to my skin, I have a loud and long-lasting camphor note. Vintage dusk perfume, A representative of the soft oriental tone, Accompanied by Recuerdos de La Alhambra. Now, having embraced heliotrope and powder, this is a favorite and one of the few scents I actually crave. Its vintage charm stems from a huge dose of powder and a big blended bouquet of very classic, perfumey flowers like carnation, jasmine and ylang ylang. This is an elegant scent that brings to mind a formal ball held in a 1900s ballroom, complete with the entire works: polished floors, smart tuxedos and intricate ballgowns.

I gave her my Vol du Noit EDT as I got the perfume propeller bottle for Christmas and I like it much better and won’t wear.Blended beautifully, nothing too sharp, nothing headache-inducing, yet there are spicy notes and floral notes. Unfortunately, on the drydown all I could smell were aldehydyes and ylang-ylang, which I associate with the notorious sour "old lady" smell.

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. The powder here is not reminiscent of a scent, it's more of a sensation; maybe what you feel when you apply perfumed dusting powder after a long bubble bath? The opening presents us with an anise licorice, too fleeting for my will, and that surrenders to the somewhat intense florals, with emphasis on the iris and violet (with its characteristic powder), the heliotrope (smelling like almond and vanilla) and for the clove (with a clove like spicy scent).I fell in love and wore this perfume when I was a young 18 year old young American woman in Prague with my first love who I adored very much who is now, as these things happen, out of my life. This is an easy reach whenever I’m in blue or violet, shines best during spring and summer, and wears like a second skin. The bottle is shaped like the one of Mitsouko and the stopper is shaped like a hollow heart that alludes to romantic pre-war years. Anyway, both marvelous, really deserve to be tried and worn, there is nothing old in a perfume of such majestic and unique formulation as L’Heure Bleue.