Aqua Allegoria Bergamote Calabria Guerlain 2017

Aqua Allegoria Bergamote Calabria by Guerlain

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Aqua Allegoria Bergamote Calabria (Guerlain)

7.8 / 10 360 Ratings

A popular perfume by Guerlain for women and men, released in 2017. The scent is citrusy-fresh. It is being marketed by LVMH.

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Main accords

Citrus

Fresh

Spicy

Green

Fruity

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Calabrian bergamot

Petitgrain

Heart Notes

Cardamom

Ginger

Base Notes

White musk

Perfumer

Thierry Wasser

Ratings

Scent

7.8360 Ratings

Longevity

6.3309 Ratings

Sillage

6.0307 Ratings

Bottle

8.4312 Ratings

Value for money

6.9122 Ratings

Submitted by Porcelain, last update on 26.03.2024.

Reviews

9 in-depth fragrance descriptions

05/11/2020

9
Bottle 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Pollita
224 Reviews

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Pollita

Top Review 55

My first Guerlain

Yeah, what can I say. I think we got a winner here. I don't think I'm gonna wait much longer before I treat myself to this little honey. I'm in love. And that would be my very first Guerlain. As I wrote a few weeks ago at the Néroli Outrenoir - every decent perfume collection needs at least one Guerlain.

I wouldn't have even thought of testing it myself. I'm not a big citrus fan. These scents are absolutely justified in summer and I like fresh scents too, but to wear them myself, simple colognes are often a bit too little modern and a bit too monotonous. But then Mörderbiene wrote a statement about this Aqua Allegoria, not even a positive one, but, it made me sit up and take notice: Cologne tones meet clean musk. That could be one for me, because I have a weakness for delicate musk scents. So maybe try a sniff?

Due to my positive reaction to his statement, my dear Swabian neighbour was kind enough to send me his sample for testing purposes. And with that he hit the mark
When I read the notes here, I was sceptical at first. Ginger and cardamom? The ginger root is not usually my best friend in fragrances. It often makes a fragrance look slightly pungent and produces an unpleasant disturbing factor every now and then. And cardamom? I don't think of a fresh summer scent, but rather of mulled wine or gingerbread. Does that even go together?

It fits, and how it fits. After the citrusy start by the bergamot, it is precisely these tones that provide a pleasant, delicate woodiness in the process. In addition, there is the finest clean musk. This fragrance is unspeakably tender with all its freshness and has enchanted me in no time at all. Yes, I want you! I don't have to think about it
As FVSpee has already written, we have a very close flatterer here. Today's dirty weather doesn't necessarily make you think of temperatures above 30 degrees, but summer will come. And in summer this scent fits me like a glove. This delicate, noble veil of scent that gently envelops you without greatly affecting your surroundings. My husband also sniffs at my neck in raptures.

My first Guerlain - it had to happen sometime. Many thanks to Killer Bee.

03/13/2019

8
Bottle 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 9
Scent

FvSpee
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FvSpee

Top Review 36

Simple recipe, perfectly cooked

A tried and tested simple recipe for making an appealing summer fragrance, which has been used frequently in recent times, is to mix a citrus note with a green culinary herb such as basil or thyme or with another spice such as cardamom. Citrus always conveys the feeling of freshness, and the herb provides a beautiful (and also fresh) antipole. In the somewhat more complex variant, a third component, more in the base note range, such as musk or wood, provides greater depth, durability or suppleness.

This is how a large part of the successful and thoroughly successful Acqua-Colonia series from 4711 works - namely the varieties "Lime & Nutmeg", "Mandarin & Cardamom", "Lemon & Ginger" and "Blood Orange & Basil". Many Acqua-di-Parma fragrances and, at Hermès, Concentré d'Orange Vert and some of its brothers work on the same basic principle.

As simple as the recipe is (you can of course modify it further at any time, for example by replacing the citrus fruit with berries, by adding floral tones to the heart note, or by using more than one base note, such as wood AND vanilla, instead of one), it works so well. Assuming a certain ability, almost nothing can go wrong, apart from the often low durability. In other words, I like such scents.

But you can't buy them all after all. I got myself two in quick succession: First, the Concentré d'Orange Vert I mentioned earlier, which has been on my wish list for at least two years, and this fragrance here, which I bought spontaneously after a short trial. I haven't regretted it.

The bergamot and petitgrain, which do not appear separately here, but strike together as an integrated hesperidic special unit, ensure a wonderfully bright, radiant, clear and cool freshness with a green-tart, lime-like touch, which is perhaps responsible for the fact that this fragrance is the only one of over 40 of the "Aqua Allegoria" series to be listed here not as a women's fragrance but as unisex (is it too; I feel it to be more masculine if at all).

The ginger (warming in winter, but still with a fresh, summery note, see Ginger Ale) rounds off the thing in the sense of a point on the i. But he - and even more the cardamom, which I can only guess at best - know about their role and let the citric free rein in principle.

The white musk, on the other hand, is used so finely, probably in small doses, perhaps also treated in a special way for production purposes or chemically bound, that it does not soften the hesperidic leitmotif in matt white, underlay it with cream or the like, but only gives it something like the final touch (and perhaps increased durability)
The basic theme sketched above has been masterfully executed here, the result is a radiant, fresh summer and good mood fragrance, which is enormously valuable and, despite its simplicity, not trivial, but elegant.

Bergamote Calabria appears powerful at the beginning, then quickly loses intensity and you think you hardly feel a scent residue on your own body, you want to complain about the low durability, until then it becomes clear that the scent has not distorted, but only withdrawn. It remains present in the room for several hours anyway; on the body for at least six to eight hours as a kind of aura, which is reactivated in the case of physical exertion, such as sport, and then begins to radiate again
The bottle has the rather unusual but, in my opinion, practical size of 75 ml. I find the form beautiful and practical; I also like the honeycomb motif. However, the honeycomb grid top could be more valuable.

Nachsatz 1: The direct comparison to the (almost) homonymous Acqua-di-Parma fragrance would certainly be attractive.

Addendum to the Aqua-Allegoria series: This series by Guerlain, although not yet old, now comprises over 40 fragrances, mainly of the type of feminine light summer water with floral and/or fruity orientation. "I also tested "Mandarine Basilic", "Herba Fresca" and "Teazzurra", which fit into my baggage scheme (and don't seem too feminine either), I like them very much, even if not quite as good as this one. But what I would like to get off my chest is that I don't like this restless, even inflationary edition policy. Do the Guerlain people want their customers to test 45 fragrances? Plus the other guerlains that aren't on the show? Plus maybe some from other companies? Don't we have a job and a family? In my opinion, the fragrance companies are also there to make a certain pre-selection and accentuation and to present "their selection" to us as a suggestion for consumption. Then you can also say: "Guerlain convinces me". If in just a few years dozens, even hundreds of fragrances are launched on the market, every outline is lost, then they can also offer 1000 fragrances to mix themselves. I find it annoying.

06/22/2018

8
Bottle 5
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Aolani
17 Reviews

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Aolani

Top Review 18

Perfect for the summer

Calabria - I've always wanted to go there. Just not with bergamot. I don't like them. Too pushy and strict.
I'm sniffing the bottle. Phew, that bergamottet. It takes me to overcome pressing the spray button. Ua, this is how I must walk now. All right, just one wrist. Even that's too much for me.
After some time, the fragrance becomes softer, smoother. The nose-biting bergamot says goodbye. Almost seamlessly the fragrance changes into musk. I'm not allowed to breathe on it, then it bergamotzt immediately again. No, it's ginger and cardamom. Spicy, sweetish-hot. I'm surprised at you. Really, I didn't think I'd like a perfume with so much bergamot. Bergamot always seemed to me like a strict teacher with a hair knot or like an old great-aunt you visit. One falls in love with her biscuits because she is happy, although one can hardly swallow the biscuits. In the apartment it smells strange and shortly before you leave, you discover a perfume bottle with a brownish liquid in the bathroom.
This bergamot is younger, more pleasant, less brittle. Herb, but warmly. The fragrance is well balanced by the cloudy soft velvety musk base. Do I really have to get it? I'm not sure yet. Thanks to Aqua Allegoria I make friends with bergamot. We approach slowly, with each test we move a tiny bit closer to each other.
Overall a well made fragrance, perfect for the summer.

06/28/2021

10
Pricing 10
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 10
Scent

FrauMieze
71 Reviews

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FrauMieze

Top Review 21

That must be love...

When I recently received the mini bottle of Aqua Allegoria Bergamote Calabria, I assumed that he will not particularly blow me away. ... Wrong thought.
THE burner par excellence. I had not expected. A really insanely great fragrance.
Citrus scents are actually not so my case because these often remind me of toilet stone.

With this fragrance, it is quite different. The citrus start is so tangy and bold, but not at all artificial. The bergamot comes out classy and petitgrain complements and harmonizes.
The top note stays with me for up to 2 hours and is always there even after the zippiest phase. What I find fantastic. Ideal for a warm summer day.
I love spices in fragrances, cardamom and ginger are present here, but remain subtly in the background and are not pungent but accompanying. With the citrus it harmonizes incredibly well.
The musk base rounds off the whole fragrance becomes slightly creamy, remains fluffy and is not slaying.
Sun, summer, a delicious cocktail with tropical fruits.
Fresh, bold, tangy, sunny, bright.
I love the scent progression that accompanies me constantly and could not help it, I had to ersouken me a big bottle.

Durability is with me, tested yesterday at 29 degrees, to the 6 h. Sillage is not slaying and to be found in the good means.
Layer tip: Angélique Noire or Aqua Allegoria Nettare di Sole result with Aqua Allegoria Bergamote Calabria a harmonious summer dream.

Edit: Now the fragrance accompanies me already 1 year and has developed into the top 1 summer fragrance.
The just always goes, gives me stehts the best mood, refreshes me maximum and brings me one compliment after another. A bottle I have already completely emptied, the second is retracted. A fragrance that will always have a place in my collection. The best of the Aqua Allegoria - series!

05/08/2021

8
Pricing 9
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Tinibee
6 Reviews

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Tinibee

Helpful Review 12

La Dolce Vita - Golden elegance meets delicate yellow cheerfulness

With Aqua Allegoria fragrances, I always feel like I'm walking into a room where people are passionately baking, cooking, drinking tea or mixing cocktails. Natural-looking ingredients and simple compositions make the scents so culinary and delicious. I have a few very clear favorites from the Guerlain range, including Ginger Piccante and Teazzurra, but I especially love Bergamote Calabria.

This fragrance has the potential to be a signature scent, it gets very skin deep and human, has little of the artificial, distant feel that makes many fragrances seem more like armor than a second skin. I've become relatively sensitive to synthetic fragrances and don't use extremely strong perfumes or perfumed laundry detergent or skin creams (can trigger allergies in the long run anyway and pollutes the environment). The Bergamote Calabria I can tolerate well (but spray it rather towards my neck as a precaution, so that it does not permanently rise from my nose into my head) and do not have the feeling to bother others with an exaggerated sillage. Who hugs me warmly in greeting or sits right next to me, should catch a pleasant whiff of it.

When I smell this Guerlain, I immediately think of a balmy summer evening in Italy. I have the image of Betty Draper from the series Mad Men in mind, who designs a new self as an emancipated woman and spends a last vacation with her husband in Rome: An attractive woman in black, airy cocktail dress, make-up of the late 60s and hanging earrings with a large pearl on each side enters the terrace of a restaurant and orders an aperitif. Sex appeal and Italian dolce vita, but also a bit of thoughtful sensuality, make Bergamote Calabria as complex to me as people are. Fruity, citrusy bergamot is carried by a deep, pithy base - delicious like a good vermouth with lemon zest in a crystal glass. The bottle is a perfect match: Golden elegance meets delicate yellow cheerfulness.

So I would like to live!

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