L'Instant de Guerlain pour Homme Guerlain 2005 Eau de Parfum

L'Instant de Guerlain pour Homme (Eau de Parfum) by Guerlain

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L'Instant de Guerlain pour Homme (Eau de Parfum) (Guerlain)

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8.5 / 101346 Ratings

L'Instant de Guerlain pour Homme (Eau de Parfum) is a popular perfume by Guerlain for men and was released in 2005. The scent is gourmand-spicy. The longevity is above-average. It is being marketed by LVMH. Pronunciation

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Perfumer

Béatrice Piquet

Fragrance Notes

Top Notes	Elemi resin Star anise Citrus notes
Heart Notes	Jasmine Neroli Patchouli blossom
Base Notes	Hibiscus seed Cocoa Patchouli Sandalwood Tea Cedar

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Scent

8.51346 Ratings

Longevity

8.8996 Ratings

Sillage

7.9963 Ratings

Bottle

7.6944 Ratings

Value for money

8.3156 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 11.05.2022.

Interesting Facts

The previous addition "Eau Extrême" is omitted since 2016, following the alteration of the bottle.

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11/26/2021

10
Scent 10
Longevity 10
Sillage 10
Bottle 10
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Eriqesque
6 Reviews

Eriqesque

5 Star Masterpiece

The bright lemon pepper and star anise opening is killer.
Drying into the heart that smoky tea (lapsang souchong) mixing with Jasmine and hibiscus. It’s just Devine. As the basenotes open up you’ll get the dry cocoa and patchouli with a bit of creamy sandalwood. This is a special and spectacular fragrance where all notes get a bit of action. Then they subdue to a unbelievable melting pot of them all together in the base mixing and swirling in the air as you move you’ll get hit with one or more of the notes.
Absolute Guerlain masterpiece. Brava Ms. Piquet. L’Instant(The Moment) the Angels welcomed you home, this is the fragrance they were wearing.

11/24/2021

9.5
Scent 9
Longevity 8
Sillage

Orlygrazi
8 Reviews

Orlygrazi

Chocolate Patch Medley

2010 formulation - Not sure what to add the convo that hasn't been said. Sensual cocoa, perfectly flanked by the star anise is rounded out by the patchouli note. A perfect blend that shouts and echoes sensuality -
The chocolate and patch notes take center stage as the fragrance develops, i think providing a nice push / pull between the darkness and sweetness.
I haven't tried the new bottle, but I do have a 2013 and a 2010 version, and despite reformulation talk back then, they smell the same.

12/23/2020

10
Scent 10
Longevity 8
Sillage 7
Bottle 7
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Maddin08

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Less helpful Review 13

No compliments, I'm afraid!

Let's get one thing straight: I really like this perfume! The scent is long-lasting elegant, even relaxing as soon as the strong top note is gone! My environment sees it unfortunately differently: Some say I smell like an old man, the others imagine themselves on a highway toilet! What a pity! So it remains for me rather a home fragrance ..

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12/17/2020

7
Scent 9
Longevity 7
Sillage 8
Bottle 9
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Kurai
182 Reviews

Kurai

Helpful Review 1

Yummy, not too sweet cocoa

A smoky opening that lands gracefully onto a bed of cacao and patchouli, with tea and spice in the background. This is soothing, pure comfort.
Compared to the EdT, this one is less mysterious, less introvert. No hide and seek here. This one is just full-on snuggly warm cacao supported by patchouli and tea. Sounds gourmandish, but it's not. This isn't a cup of hot chocolate. Thanks to the patchouli, it's more of a smoky, earthy cacao pod.
Performance-wise it does an excellent job in both longevity and sillage.

08/15/2020

10
Scent 9
Longevity 8
Sillage 8
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GoodSmeller

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Helpful Review 17

Homage to a forgotten star

To begin with, I'd like to make it clear right away that I'm not writing about the perfume in the picture here, but about its first version with the nickname "Eau Extreme" with the bottle with a brown rim, which unfortunately doesn't get a presence of its own here. It's a pity, because when I registered here many years ago, this eau de parfum was number 1 in the ranking for weeks, maybe months. It was my entry into the world of perfume and my first bottle I had in my collection. The cocoa note already had something for me at that time, something unknown and fascinating. It is conservative and daring at the same time, which sounds like a contradiction, but if you know it, you might know what I mean by it. He is earthy, spicy, sweet, warm, but adult without being stuffy. Since his production has been discontinued, or rather his successors, which have been reformulated for the fourth time, are a sad shadow of his former self, he has long disappeared from my radar. The complexity is gone, his strength, endurance and naturalness are on the shelf in a watered-down something with a similar heart note, both the top note and the base are in the dog. The price for the "original version" explodes in auctions, worldwide you can only find 2-3 bottles of it and these then up toM 5 times the former purchase price of Müller or Douglas. I consider it not only an absolute masterpiece of the art of perfume, but also one of the best perfumes I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. It has taken a long time to recognize and appreciate this beauty in its full extent, sometimes you need time to get distance to understand and love something. There is also something that I suspect, but do not know... high-proof spirits like port wine, whiskey and rum become better and more valuable the older they are, a perfume is also a liquid with a high alcohol content and I have the impression that in 2020 it will be much better than I remembered it from back then, also because there are hardly any perfumes left that go on all day with a single spray like this one. It's more for special occasions, more in the evening and winter, than sport and heat. It's definitely one of those you take out of the closet just to sniff the spray and close your eyes with a smile. He reminds me why I'm here, his beauty overwhelms me and makes me ashamed that I underestimated her so much all these years that passed with the mainstream becoming flatter and flatter

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07/16/2020

8
Scent 9
Longevity 8
Sillage 8
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Smellavision
178 Reviews

Smellavision

Killer longevity...

Reviewing the dark rimmed EDP Eau Extreme version from 2012 - longevity of this one is beastly, I'm talking 12 hours + without a scratch. This is actually strong enough for clubbing, though I wouldn't imagine this as the typical sweet bubblegum club category.
It's a sweet creamy rich patchouli/sandalwood combo, slightly powdery with hints of cocoa and liquorice (anise?) combined with the Guerlinade composition and a kind of citrusy opening. This is simply perfect for a cold winters night.

Only con: it can actually seem too classy, i.e. it's really hard to wear on informal or casual occasions, I would imagine some younger guys being scared by it smelling a little too "mature".

Never the less great bang for the buck!

05/11/2020

9.5
Scent 9
Longevity 8
Sillage 8
Bottle

TomFragance
33 Reviews

TomFragance

Mister Cocoa

This, together with M7, Dior Homme / Homme intense and Gucci Rush For men is undoubtedly among the best perfumes born after the 2000s. There is no niche that keeps boys, this perfume expresses quality, in every sense, quality of ingredients, artistic quality, quality in the composition of the ingredients, sensory quality, this is a gentle perfume. I don't like cataloging perfumes, much less poetizing when I talk about them, but believe me, if you present designer perfumes, niche perfumes, create a section of immortal perfumes, and this would certainly be part of it.
I prefer to talk to you about the Extreme version because it is the one I prefer, deeper, darker, slightly sweeter and greedy if we really want to say it, compared to the eau de toilette version, albeit good but it differs slightly, so as not to be redundant. the EDT version is classic and formal, the EDP version is more exclusive and courageous.
The opening is very closed and citrus, bright, pungent, star anise, resins and fresh flowers, jasmine, neroli and cocoa, the true protagonist of this perfume, already from the opening you can feel it, already want to enter and take part of the scene, a not sweet cocoa, but a bitter, earthy cocoa and now the most interesting part comes, the crystalline citrus bud opens for space tariff and an explosion of warm, enveloping, sweet, loaded pleasure, the cocoa mixes with the earthiness and to the woodiness of the Mysore sandal with patchouli, a bomb of soft, sweet and warm woodiness, earthy, slightly spicy, a sort of theobromic-vanilla bomb, very sexy, unique, refined.

A citrus fruit with a sweet-cocoa-woody heart, very masculine although tending to sweet, bright, classy, which makes you feel safe. It remains on the skin for a long time, it is very persistent, it is among the longest lasting perfumes in my collection.
A fresh citric opening that perfectly turns to a warm heart, sandalwood-chocolate, how did they do it? In my opinion they are the quality ingredients that distinguish this perfume, in many have tried to imitate it (JPG Kokorico, Nasomatto Pardon) failing miserably, even at home, the same Guerlain with the various reformulations have seriously compromised the goodness of this essence , I am talking about the first version, the one with the black frames to be clear, the next one with the clear edges and even worse the last one with the rectangular bottle, they lack quality, nuances, personalities , in evolution that distinguish it.
Unfortunately Guerlain has decided to stop it, I recommend you recover it, if you find it buy it blindly, it will be worth every penny. I love it.

Rating 9.5 / 10

03/27/2020

10
Scent 8
Longevity 7
Sillage 7
Bottle 8
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Carlitos01
347 Reviews

Carlitos01

Very helpful Review 13

See me walking down Fifth Avenue

It is indisputable that I like a perfume that catches the attention of other people, ladies in particular. However, my main criterion of choice is that it pleases me above all. I don't really have a preferred choice by perfume type. I have no doubt that I greatly appreciate oriental woody and resinous perfumes. But my entrance gate is wide enough to let a good fougère pass by, or a pleasant chypre, or even fresh citrus or aquatic.
Guerlain L'Instant belongs to a personal section of perfumes that I mentally qualify as a pleasure generator for myself. It is not a scent that draws much attention in public, much less a magnet of female attraction. But it transfers an aura that "everything is fine with us". It gives us confidence and well-being and transmits it to the people around us. L'Instant can be an extraordinary therapist and for much more than just an instant. It just places you instantly in downtown Paris or New York.

The fragrance is woody, full of spices, and just a bit sweet. At first glance, and after 3 to 4 sprays, the power of citrus is impressive, with a light resinous aura and soft anise gratifying sweet note. As this first wave slowly dissipates, chords of light patchouli with some lavender and white flowers emerging, creating a captivating, manly, and dignified scent. After this busy evolution, we entered a calmer phase, revealing a rich dark and greasy cocoa, as well as wood, both a more austere cedar, and more creamy sandalwood, accompanied by strong and complex patchouli. This base extends itself through the dry down and is soft and warm, transmitting a firm and secure masculinity.
L'Instant, even in its Eau de Parfum concentration, is not a performance star. Longevity is a bit above average, but the sillage is moderate and the projection is a bit low. Probably I would expect a bit more stamina from this star fragrance, but its undoubted elegance requires this type of moderation. I have both releases of the older square bottle and the newer taller flask. I don't devise any scent or behavior difference between the two versions, but I like the older bottle better.

Let's spend an instant to frame this landmark in numbers.
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Opening: 9.25 (noticeably aniseed and citrusy blending)
DryDown: 10.0 (divine bitterish cocoa and strong patchouli)
Longevity: 8.0 (3 good sprays can last up to 7~8 hours)
Sillage: 7.0 (up to 5 feet at its peak with 3 sprays; projects for less than 2.0 hours)
Uniqueness: 10.0 (It has its own DNA and individuality; I don't recall any similar fragrance)
Wearability: 8.5 (A three-season fragrance for outdoors or indoors, day or night; avoid the hot summer days)
Versatility: 8.5 (A very easy to wear spicy and woody unisex fragrance; excellent for daily or office wear; forget sports and seaside)
Compliments: 8.0 (You will smell good to everybody and people will respect you)
Quality: 9.0 (above-average quality ingredients, good flask, nice sprayer; I take 1 point for the just average performance)
Presentation: 7.5 (presentation classification for the new bottle; simple but effective and virtually identical to a dozen of other Guerlain men fragrances)
Price: 9.0 (EdP 100 ml non tester for € 34.00 on sale + shipping; usual price: €45.00)
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Overall rating: 8.61 / 10.00
- between 7 and 8 = above average;
- between 8 and 9 = recommended;
- greater than 9 = do not miss;

Recommendation: This is a very good elegant and unique fragrance and an unexpected good value for money choice due to its intrinsic quality and affordable price. It exudes masculinity and confidence. The average performance may be overcome by a couple of sprays on the clothes. As far as I'm concerned it's a must-have for me. I do recommend it, even as a blind buy.

Music: Elton John - "Something about the way you look tonight"

02/28/2020

9
Scent 10
Longevity 8
Sillage 7
Bottle

Danskei

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Danskei

Helpful Review 8

The perfect combination of individuality

This is my first comment.

I refer here to the "Eau Extréme" version, which is still in my possession, but unfortunately it is nearing its end. It's a pity, but on the other hand it shows me that I love to wear and have worn this fragrance.

As with probably many, memories, whether positive or rather negative, and experiences are often associated with a fragrance. Sometimes you like to remember it and sometimes you are happy when you no longer have to smell a perfume.

I'm new on this platform, but I'm very interested in perfume, so I've already tried a lot. Since I associate a lot of nice memories with this fragrance and I really wanted to write a comment, I chose this great stuff.

To the fragrance:

For me it starts resinous and oily immediately after spraying. So rather difficult, but not overwhelming in any way. Immediately afterwards a freshness is added. A citric freshness, pleasant and it blends very well with the initially resinous heaviness.

Lavender I perceive. At least it's my subjective perception. Since it was already mentioned in previous comments, I can only confirm this.
Precisely because I have been asked about lavender while wearing it. (In the positive sense.)

The process continues with a light powdery texture. No extremes, like Givenchy Gentleman EDP for example, but I find it very fitting. As the initial freshness has diminished and a resinous and floral fruitiness prevails, the powdery texture rounds off the whole thing very well. She simply does not let the scent appear too sweet and oppressive.

Furthermore I perceive lavender, light and that also the whole course.
(By the way, I also smell when I smell the bottle.)

Eventually it'll be chocolatey. When you think of chocolate, you could think of a damn sweet composition.
That's not so. For me it is a dry hearty and not too sweet cocoa, which despite the "dry" aroma does not smell dusty and old. On the contrary, it has a pleasantly fruity effect.
So I think that in this perfume, simply the combination of the individual ingredients was very well done. This makes everything present and yet each part merges into the other without outdoing each other.

In the end it becomes woody and warm and the powdery texture is gone.
A certain resinous fruitiness is retained. Also at this point, it is the wood which again creates the balance. Strangely enough, with the wood even a citric component sets in again.
However, this is also pleasantly warm and rather less fresh.

The drydown is pretty damn good on a date, by the way.

If I had to depict the scent it would be like this:

By and large I have a table in my head. A bloody expensive table. Real wood and no pressed stuff. The wood is still slightly resinous and on the table there are flowers with a pleasant scent.
I'm sitting at this one, drinking warm chocolate with a squirt of lemon. There's cake with it.
None of those cakes that give you a toothache just by looking at them.
No, a savory combination with fruit. The room in which the table is placed is well warmed up.

So much for the smell.

Durability is damn long and even after showering still noticeable.
For some it is a blessing, for others perhaps annoying. On clothes and pillows by the way almost infinite.
Sillage is simply super, it doesn't crush you and is still very present.

As described above, it is not unusual to associate experiences with a fragrance.
With me it was especially one in front of a doctor's office After I had left them, one of the doctor's assistants ran after me as far as the car and asked me to give her the name of the perfume. She and her colleagues found the scent simply fantastic and wanted to know it. It probably just filled the whole room. Which can be very annoying with many scents, but in this case it was very well received.

That's it for this scent.

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02/27/2020

8.5
Scent 9
Longevity 9
Sillage 8
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Schmutzfuss

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Schmutzfuss

Helpful Review 11

Smells like Daddy!

This fragrance has a special effect on me, as this is one of the fragrances my late father liked to wear. With him L'instant always smelled very fresh and still appeared noble and mature and you always smelled a hint of oriental with it, that's probably due to the patchouli and sandalwood. He really never overdid it with the number of sprayers, but he was good smelling from far away. As I said, I find the fragrance mixture really great and varied and has a correspondingly varied depth. I can imagine this scent very well as an appetizing background to "sit on the terrace in the evening sun" but also at a business dinner or at an official event. As far as the shelf life is concerned, I can only say that on various day trips with my father, I could smell him in the morning and still perceive this freshness late in the afternoon. So really a very good durability! Maybe because of the biographical connection to this fragrance I am a little less critical or nostalgic, but no matter: I can
L'instant recommend only!

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BertolucciK 3 months ago

9
Scent 8
Longevity 7
Sillage 8
Bottle

In the opening, a sweet star anise and citruses. In the drydown, a powdery cocoa with a dominant patchouli. Gourmand, earthy and woody.

Maximus001 7 months ago

9.5
Scent 9
Longevity 8
Sillage 9
Bottle

One of the best elegant and sophisticated male offering of most profit making fragrance producer company. Fantastic buy. My batch: 4Y01

Finerthings8 1 year ago

9
Scent 8
Longevity 8
Sillage 7
Bottle

From beginning till end,this is pure pleasure elegance and full off character.very a few parfums achieved this level.

Amazon1975 2 years ago

10
Scent 8
Longevity 5
Sillage 8
Bottle

Beautiful and lasting but Sillage is not good at all you have to smell your hand pretty closely to get it. Very classy and comforting though

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Carlitos01 3 years ago

10
Scent 8
Longevity 7
Sillage 7
Bottle

L'Instant is a Patchouli-Cocoa elixir. Subtle but strong! Strong but discrete! Discrete but noticeable! Noticeable but classy! Recommended!

Jazzy76 3 years ago

9
Scent 8
Longevity 8
Sillage 8
Bottle

The magic of a warm, spicy and very refined gem in its multifaceted squared bottle . Sexy and classy. Wonderful sillage on my skin too.

Toreter 4 years ago

Wearing today "eau extreme" from 2007. Citrus, anise in a balsamic elemi, evolves into a mild sweet cocoa (not powdry) anise mix. NICE!¡¡¡¡

Giesta40 5 years ago

8.5
Scent 8
Longevity 7
Sillage 7
Bottle

Anised cocao and a hint of citrus. Amazing scent for winter days. Aromatherapy for chocolate lovers!

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