Mitsouko Guerlain Eau de Parfum

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Ranked 37 in Women's Perfume

8.0 / 10 761 Ratings

A popular perfume by Guerlain for women. The release year is unknown. The scent is chypreartig-spicy. The longevity is above-average. It is being marketed by LVMH.
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Main accords

Chypre

Spicy

Floral

Woody

Fruity

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Bergamot

Citrus fruits

Jasmine

Rose

Heart Notes

Peach

Ylang-ylang

Lilac

Base Notes

Oakmoss

Spices

Ambergris

Vetiver

Cinnamon

Perfumer

Jacques Guerlain

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Ratings

Scent

8.0761 Ratings

Longevity

8.4552 Ratings

Sillage

7.6543 Ratings

Bottle

8.7528 Ratings

Value for money

7.6131 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 25.04.2024.

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39 in-depth fragrance descriptions

05/06/2020

8
Bottle 8
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

BelAmi
8 Reviews

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BelAmi

Top Review 49

Once Mitsouko, always Mitsouko.

Mitsouko has been with me for almost a decade. Sprayed on in a perfumery, because just sniffing the bottle was so wonderful. Spending an evening at the theatre with the fragrance on my wrist - always fine clouds of scent - fruity, woody, melancholic, deep and yet full of warmth. Not a bit old-fashioned for my nose. Since that evening Mitsouko accompanied me. Around the clock, whereby one sprayer is sufficient for a good 10 hours. He brought me the most beautiful scent compliments. It was one of the few fragrances I could wear during pregnancy. A splash under the sweater is enough. Mitsouko works his way through clothes. In summer I wore the eau de toilette, on cooler and colder days the eau de perfume. Then I came across perfume. Since then, I've fallen in love with all kinds of perfumes countless times. They came and went. Only a few stayed. And even fewer made it into my private "Heart's Fragrances" category. In the course of the last few years, all my bottles changed. Except for one. Mitsouko stayed. It's been a long time since I wore it. But to give him away, no, it was always obvious it would be wrong. I gave away other fragrances and thought that if I ever asked for it again, I would get a new one - that would certainly affect a handful of fragrances in my collection. With Mitsouko this question never arose. Whenever I passed the Guerlain counter here in my city and went on a fragrance journey with new scents, Mitsouko always came up with something new. Then the consultant said very calmly and as if it was the most normal thing in the world (she has certainly been working for Guerlain for over 20 years) "once Mitsouko, always Mitsouko. Once you love him, you'll never stop loving him." And she tells me, a perfume!

Recently, and this is a very special time, my Mitsouko bottle fell into my hands again. A spray on my wrist and since then, despite the spring sun, I can't seem to get away from it. In the meantime, if I have followed it correctly, it has had 1-2 reformulations. And my perfume heart was very curious about the new version. Today it arrived. Tensely I unpacked it. A white instead of gold-colored cardboard. The flacon unchanged. And the scent. It's definitely Mitsouko. A bit more austere and masculine than the other contents of my bottle. A little more transparent, less dense, less fruity. After two or three hours, I can hardly tell the difference and it lasts just as long. This version, too, works its way through your clothes and exudes its melancholic warmth. What I am glad that there is this wonderful scent. And if I had money, a lot of money, I would love to have one of these beautiful, though hopelessly impractical bee flacons. Or a big bottle of the Extract. As Guerlain's advisor said so beautifully "30 ml of Extrait you can dare - once you love Mitsouko, you will always love him".

11/05/2023

10
Bottle 9
Sillage 9
Longevity 10
Scent

Setterliebe
3 Reviews

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Setterliebe

Top Review 54

Revelation

Perfect beauty
through shadow and light
pierce my soul
flows into the sea of tears

Blurred in the distance
To see your radiance
You carried me for a long time
i would like to go there

Once again I would like to take you with me for a little while, to times long past.
-Back then I was a young girl.
One day, I started an internship in a retirement home where time seemed to stand still.
The wooden, creaking floors took me into a world I had never known before.
There was a count to whom we bowed reverently, and only selected staff were allowed to enter his room.
There was also the old hatter, who happily twirled his two canes, and a prompter whose lipstick and rouge were always applied a little askew.
-And then I met Miss S.. A charming old lady with shiny, snow-white, long hair that always smelled a little spicy.
She radiated an incredible calmness when she sat at her table in front of her old sewing machine.
She still decorated the old chapel with roses, jasmine and lilacs. Sometimes she made beautiful moss arrangements.
I spent every spare second with her. Sometimes we just sat there holding hands and were silent. A close bond developed between us and she always called me "my dear child".
A whole time passed like that.
One day I was on late shift. There was a lot of commotion on our ward and the older nurses tried to stop me from going to Miss S.
She was in a coma and it was clear that she was going to die.
But no one could hold me back.
I sat at her deathbed for hours, crying. I couldn't understand that my favorite person was dying.
I prayed all the time and felt lonely and lost.
At one point I laid my head on her bed.
Then something happened that changed my life forever.
A gentle hand stroked my head. Miss S. had woken up once again.
She whispered softly: "My dear child, let me go to the castle over the golden bridge."
A warm shiver ran through my whole body.
The sun shone brightly into the room. I was overcome with a feeling of happiness that I had never known before
I knew that she was going to a place where she was happy.
I myself was filled with love and confidence
This experience has accompanied my whole life.

For me, Mitsouko is the scent of that time. It reminds me of the smells in old people's homes.
At the same time, it has an incredible depth. The interplay of happiness and melancholy is what makes it so perfect for me.

02/11/2019

9
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 9
Scent

Schwälbchen
21 Reviews

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Schwälbchen

Top Review 37

The Return of Longing

Finally, the days are getting longer again. The last snowballs hide in shady corners. Warming sunbeams tickle my skin. And also the birds want to greet the approaching spring. It is her friendly singing that awakens in me the longing for airy green, for richly moist earth. After the peace and originality of the forests. And it is precisely this longing that makes me choose Mitsouko today. Already a few days I creep around the bottle, place it in my hand, take off the cap and suck the scent deep into it. This year it will rain Mitsouko - comments from the sky. 100 years. Milestone. Icon. Role model. Grand Dame and Diva.

Diva, if I make the mistake of putting her on the wrong job. Sprayed too close to the skin and it lifts the strict index finger, looks disgruntled, almost displeased.

Then rather by wasteful gesture put some sprayers into ether. Slowly the fine fog trickles down on my skin. So generously applied, Mitsouko now adheres to nothing at all bärbeißiges more. Friendly bergamot and light citrus fruits greet me. They are of natural freshness and neither harsh nor scratchy for me. They meet up with well-meaning jasmine and fragile-looking lilac. The appearance of the peach in this wonderful composition intoxicates every time anew. It has not yet developed its full sweetness, is still young and tender and yet can be perceived authentically as a fruit. A dream. But the most beautiful is yet to come. In the drydown Mitsouko - the serious, the silence - becomes incredibly cuddly. The almost shy flowers and the discreet fruitiness slowly give off the sceptre to a warm cinnamon note - for their endurance is fantastic. This takes all the rigour out of the oak moss and gives this masterpiece a golden shimmer.

There may be countless aspects that have made Mitsouko successful over so many generations. For me it symbolizes like no other fragrance the perfect symbiosis between the last icy breeze and the warming sunbeams of an early spring day. And exactly then she accompanies me on long hikes through the deep green silence of the forests. Mitsouko. The return of longing

02/14/2021

9
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Serenissima
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Serenissima

Top Review 31

the scent of the abandoned lover

Already before the I. Jacques Guerlain had delighted the fragrance world: 1906 with "Après l'ondée" and 1912 with "L'Heure bleue".
But his world was also in ruins in 1919; the reconstruction of the company was to be crowned with a fragrance adapted to the times.
Women had changed: they were fresh and slim, suddenly wearing bobbed heads and daring bell hats: they smoked and drove cars!

"Mitsouko", with its stylized bell-hat cap and very special flacon shape, was in keeping with the new times when it was launched as late as 1919.
And yet Jacques Guerlain took a step back in the creation; he remembered the general enthusiasm at the turn of the century for all things Japanese.
Of the tears that flowed to Giacomo Puccini's music around the fate of the geisha Cio-Cio-San/"Madama Butterfly".
And to the novel "La Bataille" by Claude Farrère, whose heroine Mitsouko, wife of an admiral, falls in love with a British naval attaché during the Russo-Japanese War.
("How the images resemble each other!" to stay with Puccini.)

From the beginning, "Mitsouko" embodied the new way of life and heartfelt stories.
So it's really no wonder that Serge Diaghilev was delighted and declared "Mitsouko" his favorite perfume.

I have "Mitsouko" only recently got to know and love.
There was a time when everything was just too much for me: too much Chanel, too much Dior and also too much Guerlain.
I felt probably overwhelmed, wanted to read, hear and smell no more of it!
Only when I saw the stylish and so lovingly arranged photos of my facebook friend Jessica with "Mitsouko" as a focal point (large and small crystal flacon, painted vials of porcelain - all with hat closure, plus mirrors, flowers and candles - just gorgeous), I was ready to approach this fragrance lady. I became curious!
Luckily, I was allowed to choose some fragrance samples from Floramalia's collection, and since the first fragrance letter was a bit of a waste, I even got a second bottling.
Many thanks for this, so I could really get involved with "Mitsouko" Eau de Parfum.

"Mitsouko" has an aura all of its own; that of a sophisticated floral chypres against an amber background: very classy, but composed or great detours.
The top note was arranged without frills from the classic fragrance notes of citrus and flowers:
Bergamot and a pleasantly fresh citrus note meet the beauty of rose and jasmine right at the beginning. Both generously exude their noble aroma.
Lilac and ylang ylang complete, together with ripe peach aroma, the feeling of a summer garden; its luxurious security, of lingering there.
Summer noble flower gardens and ripe fruits are not uncommon in precious fragrance fabrics.
But the fresh scent of oak moss, wood and spices, stored on a precious amber base, make the difference here: si make "Mitsouko" something very special.

How grateful I am that this door to the opulent world of Guerlain's fragrances, which I had closed, has been opened again by these beautiful photos.
"Mitsouko" EdP does not yet have a permanent place on my Guerlain fragrance scale; the classics are all so extraordinary that it is almost impossible for me to categorize them.
Today it's "Shalimar," tomorrow it'll be "Mitsouko," and the day after? - Who knows!

The "fragrance kindergarten" of this company from the last decade certainly also still holds many nice surprises. Some I was already allowed to test and also comment.
The classic fragrances play in their own league and will continue to do so; whereby I am very happy about the recent acquaintance with "L'Heure bleue" and "Mitsouko".
They are all one thing: a daily enrichment!

01/10/2021

10
Pricing 10
Bottle 6
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Tradescantia
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Tradescantia

Top Review 22

A classic fragrance, just a little daring-A legend

I miss Mitsouko very much.

It has been lost to me through a very annoying circumstance, which I will not go into.

Meanwhile I am calmly facing it again and can dedicate a comment to Mitsouko.

If I do get another Guerlain besides L'Heure Bleue, it will be this one or Shalimar as an edt. Both are so wonderful. And until that decision is made, I'm happy to wait.

Mitsouko is soft, a bit melancholic, but it doesn't get lost in melancholy, it's strong and radiant. Almost a little rosy.

And rose is in there too, as a great secondary accord.

Right next door, the citrus announce themselves, which together with the bergamot provide fresh clear air.
Both notes remain very soft. Nothing bites here. Very nice.

Mitsouko is graceful, like a geisha.
She would not make a mistake and would never be rude, even if she were offended.
Mitsouko is too proud for that.
She is sublime. Without any arrogance.

Lilac and ylang ylang are perceptible to me. Both fragrance notes give me basically pleasure.

And lilac is now rare to smell and reminds me of childhood. Have been able to admire lilacs so often in nature and partly picked and put in a vase in my room.

Also here a nostalgic feeling announces itself, which creeps me only rarely, however, is quite immanent to the classics.
Mitsouko Edp is a soft delight for me, but what makes it so special for me is that it awakens my wanderlust. Wanderlust. Curiosity in a practical sense is aroused.
Drive.

I travel very seldom. Theoretical matters I acquire quickly, but I do not feel the urge to act as quickly as the need to think in peace. Silence at the desk.
Only the ticking of the clock, which at some point no longer disturbs, is to be heard. Concentration. The focus is just where it should be.

Mitsouko is a little daring, but not too much. Something bolder may be the Eau de Toilette, which I also very much appreciate.
It just doesn't develop as well on my skin as the Eau de Parfum.

The famous peach note, which is very authentic, is better on my skin when I use the edp.

I often think about the modern classic "On the road", a book that shaped the beatnik subculture.
Mitsouko is much older and by far more classic and tender, but in the novel my wanderlust is equally awakened, the desire to travel and also spontaneity is a theme of the novel.

While Mitsouko is a masterpiece that is very thoughtful, it still feels lively and sweet.
However, not too lovely, there is a bit of adventurousness in the bottle.

Oak moss is also the basic building block here.
Mitsouko is for me a woodier, deeper and more full-bodied No. 19.
While the scents don't have a lot in common, aside from the fact that they touch me a lot. And I like both of them better as edp.

Mitsouko is really lovely, but not sweet.
She is an adult. However, a gentle nature. Green, woodsy, mossy.
Warm. Mitsouko would manage to give a Steppenwolf a sense of security.

Woodiness is not a theme of the perfume, but vetiver works very well placed here.
Cinnamon I hear, but only quietly and other spices I can not detect.
For me, really pleasant

Mitsouko will again find a place on my secretary.
I'm sure it will.

Have fun with this extraordinary perfume.

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