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The number one?
I have ordered Cuir Beluga together with Spirituese Double Vanille and Tonka Imperiale as bottling (see my comment at Spirituese Double Vanille) and I am very enthusiastic about all three, especially about Spirituese Double Vanille and Cuir Beluga!
As a huge vanilla fan, I have smelled hundreds of different versions of vanilla in my life, but none could compare to Guerlain's, except of course a real, fresh vanilla bean
Scent:
Immediately after spraying I smell the beautiful vanilla, very soft suede and something that reminds me of the smell of straw but very soft, full strawflower or heliotrope? To be honest, I don't even know what the above mentioned smell like and can therefore only guess and speculate. Cuir Beluga remains throughout really beautiful vanilla and tender and becomes slightly powdery with time but also very soft. In the end only the beautiful vanilla remains.
If I had to describe SDV and Cuir Beluga, I guess it would be like this:
SDV is the bigger, more mature brother (or sister?) of Cuir Beluga. While Cuir Beluga is a youngster and still a bit playful and is just about to refine his way of seducing others, SDV is an adult and likes to drink a glass of fine rum. SDV also seduces in an adult way with rum and incense. Cuir likes to sit at home in his parents' villa on the high-quality leather couch, SDV on the other hand is well dressed with a glass of expensive rum in his office and receives high-ranking people there.
If I'm fair and honest: I don't know if Cuir or SDV is my number one vanilla I see both on the first place, because both know how to convince and impress in their own way.
Both of them stay with me for several hours and smell simply wonderful throughout. Sillage is not very big but it doesn't have to be, because both like it quiet and want you to get closer to them
Cuir Beluga is m. M. n. very suitable for both sexes.
I can really recommend Cuir Beluga to every vanilla fan!
Cuir Beluga = sex for the nose? I'd say so, yes!
As a huge vanilla fan, I have smelled hundreds of different versions of vanilla in my life, but none could compare to Guerlain's, except of course a real, fresh vanilla bean
Scent:
Immediately after spraying I smell the beautiful vanilla, very soft suede and something that reminds me of the smell of straw but very soft, full strawflower or heliotrope? To be honest, I don't even know what the above mentioned smell like and can therefore only guess and speculate. Cuir Beluga remains throughout really beautiful vanilla and tender and becomes slightly powdery with time but also very soft. In the end only the beautiful vanilla remains.
If I had to describe SDV and Cuir Beluga, I guess it would be like this:
SDV is the bigger, more mature brother (or sister?) of Cuir Beluga. While Cuir Beluga is a youngster and still a bit playful and is just about to refine his way of seducing others, SDV is an adult and likes to drink a glass of fine rum. SDV also seduces in an adult way with rum and incense. Cuir likes to sit at home in his parents' villa on the high-quality leather couch, SDV on the other hand is well dressed with a glass of expensive rum in his office and receives high-ranking people there.
If I'm fair and honest: I don't know if Cuir or SDV is my number one vanilla I see both on the first place, because both know how to convince and impress in their own way.
Both of them stay with me for several hours and smell simply wonderful throughout. Sillage is not very big but it doesn't have to be, because both like it quiet and want you to get closer to them
Cuir Beluga is m. M. n. very suitable for both sexes.
I can really recommend Cuir Beluga to every vanilla fan!
Cuir Beluga = sex for the nose? I'd say so, yes!
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Outrageously good!
Hello Spiritueuse Double Vanilla you little, cheeky rascal!
I discovered you for the first time a few years ago but unfortunately you never really interested me, although your face is beautiful! It took an eternity until we met again in 2019 and I decided: One day I have to test the Lümmel again. Well, a few days ago I opened my purse to miserly people, which was easier said than done, because a cutting torch was needed (miserly people) and I ordered SDV, Cuir Beluga and Tonka Imperiale for bottling. I like all three of them extraordinarily well and they give me a "want to have" feeling, but my wallet has a completely different opinion than I do and is hidden deep in a mine adit. On the eternally long search for my miserly purse, I always sniffed my hand like a drug sniffer dog to find out what great things were being processed there. Strangely enough, every day I smelled something different there... Sometimes incense, then rum, then mostly vanilla... I am and will always be a strange time man (as Angelo Merte once said)
My, my, what's the matter? Jo freili!
Directly after spraying on I sniff vanilla and incense or sometimes only vanilla and rum or sometimes almost only vanilla, where benzoin, bergamot, pepper, jasmine and ylang ylang these bullies hide, is not known until now! My thesis: They all have shares in the so-called "Stay-Away-Fund", i.e. Mr. Guerlain pays in money every month, so that they all stay away and don't show up, otherwise it might look like bulky waste? In the drydown, when the incense and rum evaporate and go to play with Keilo, the vanilla is the only one left behind and promises to stay by my or your side until the bitter end.
Durability is quite ok, Sillage not so but it doesn't matter, you don't have to bother your fellow men
By the way: here and at Cuir Beluga one or more beautiful vanilla has been processed, which differs clearly from the synthetic ones from cheap products. Besides, the vanilla seems to me to be a bit fresher (is it because of the bergamot of this rascal?) than at Cuir Beluga but towards the end it is, I think, the same vanilla
Portable as a man? Let's ask Ludwig... Ja freili!
Only the price is not ok for me but that's how I feel about Creed & co. too.
Yeah, you better hurry up!
I discovered you for the first time a few years ago but unfortunately you never really interested me, although your face is beautiful! It took an eternity until we met again in 2019 and I decided: One day I have to test the Lümmel again. Well, a few days ago I opened my purse to miserly people, which was easier said than done, because a cutting torch was needed (miserly people) and I ordered SDV, Cuir Beluga and Tonka Imperiale for bottling. I like all three of them extraordinarily well and they give me a "want to have" feeling, but my wallet has a completely different opinion than I do and is hidden deep in a mine adit. On the eternally long search for my miserly purse, I always sniffed my hand like a drug sniffer dog to find out what great things were being processed there. Strangely enough, every day I smelled something different there... Sometimes incense, then rum, then mostly vanilla... I am and will always be a strange time man (as Angelo Merte once said)
My, my, what's the matter? Jo freili!
Directly after spraying on I sniff vanilla and incense or sometimes only vanilla and rum or sometimes almost only vanilla, where benzoin, bergamot, pepper, jasmine and ylang ylang these bullies hide, is not known until now! My thesis: They all have shares in the so-called "Stay-Away-Fund", i.e. Mr. Guerlain pays in money every month, so that they all stay away and don't show up, otherwise it might look like bulky waste? In the drydown, when the incense and rum evaporate and go to play with Keilo, the vanilla is the only one left behind and promises to stay by my or your side until the bitter end.
Durability is quite ok, Sillage not so but it doesn't matter, you don't have to bother your fellow men
By the way: here and at Cuir Beluga one or more beautiful vanilla has been processed, which differs clearly from the synthetic ones from cheap products. Besides, the vanilla seems to me to be a bit fresher (is it because of the bergamot of this rascal?) than at Cuir Beluga but towards the end it is, I think, the same vanilla
Portable as a man? Let's ask Ludwig... Ja freili!
Only the price is not ok for me but that's how I feel about Creed & co. too.
Yeah, you better hurry up!
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Not my Cup of Tea
I have tested Akaster several times now and have been desperately looking for an understandable reason why Akaster is so expensive and only available exclusively at Harrods but I just can't find any reason!
Scent:
Same problem as Pegasus: It smells flowery and spicy and does not develop at all in my case! I also cannot smell the lemon, cardamom, guaiac wood etc. I have a flowery smell (probably the rose(s) and rose geranium?), you can also smell the pepper very easily out or it always tickles in my nose when I sniff it and I thought I had to sneeze, even though I am healthy! The spicy thing I smell might possibly be the oud? I have no idea what oud smells like, as I am not familiar with unusual scents (oud, beaver's horny, civet, ...). Everything else that is listed as fragrances, I can't sniff at any time and as I said, Akaster somehow doesn't go through a development with me, it just smells the same flowery and spicy from beginning to end.
Whether it's my nose or my skin or whatever, I can't tell, I just don't know. I also find it a little strange, because Herod and Layton unfold and develop wonderfully with me and smell simply heavenly to me, but with Pegasus and Akaster it is just the opposite, nothing happens.
Shelf life is good, but I don't know about Sillage. But the bottle looks pretty like all Marlys (at least I like the bottles).
But Akaster is good for going out or eating out and possibly also for business, as long as one does not exaggerate.
Scent:
Same problem as Pegasus: It smells flowery and spicy and does not develop at all in my case! I also cannot smell the lemon, cardamom, guaiac wood etc. I have a flowery smell (probably the rose(s) and rose geranium?), you can also smell the pepper very easily out or it always tickles in my nose when I sniff it and I thought I had to sneeze, even though I am healthy! The spicy thing I smell might possibly be the oud? I have no idea what oud smells like, as I am not familiar with unusual scents (oud, beaver's horny, civet, ...). Everything else that is listed as fragrances, I can't sniff at any time and as I said, Akaster somehow doesn't go through a development with me, it just smells the same flowery and spicy from beginning to end.
Whether it's my nose or my skin or whatever, I can't tell, I just don't know. I also find it a little strange, because Herod and Layton unfold and develop wonderfully with me and smell simply heavenly to me, but with Pegasus and Akaster it is just the opposite, nothing happens.
Shelf life is good, but I don't know about Sillage. But the bottle looks pretty like all Marlys (at least I like the bottles).
But Akaster is good for going out or eating out and possibly also for business, as long as one does not exaggerate.
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Not my thing
Oh, I was really looking forward to Pegasus, because it is totally hyped and I was really looking forward to get an original PDM sample last year. Well, full of anticipation I sprayed Pegasus on my hand and was quite shocked! I thought "what is that?" because Pegasus just smelled of flowers (jasmine) from start to finish and then put Pegasus in a cupboard. In the last months I took the sample out again several times to test, because I thought my nose was broken or I just had a bad day but it is the way it is, the smell was, is and will stay the same... Flowery (Jasmine) from beginning to end, all other notes I just don't smell, I can try as hard as I want!
Scent:
That's easy to tell. To me, Pegasus just smells like flowers and nothing else. Somehow the smell reminds me of a nursery and the cemetery. Why cemetery? As a child and teenager I went with my grandmother to the cemetery to my grandfather's grave almost every week and every now and then I went with my grandmother to a nursery to buy flowers for the grave and in the nursery it smelled exactly like Pegasus smells, also in the cemetery, when I walked past the graves and the smell of the flowers that were planted there got into my nose, it smelled exactly like Pegasus smells.
I just can't explain all this and I can't imagine that the sample was tipped or fake, because this was an original sample from a certified perfumery, which has a very good reputation and would never allow itself such a faux pas.
Unfortunately I can't tell you more about Pegasus, even if I would have loved to tell you more but I just don't like Pegasus at all and it doesn't develop for me either, it just stays flowery.
Scent:
That's easy to tell. To me, Pegasus just smells like flowers and nothing else. Somehow the smell reminds me of a nursery and the cemetery. Why cemetery? As a child and teenager I went with my grandmother to the cemetery to my grandfather's grave almost every week and every now and then I went with my grandmother to a nursery to buy flowers for the grave and in the nursery it smelled exactly like Pegasus smells, also in the cemetery, when I walked past the graves and the smell of the flowers that were planted there got into my nose, it smelled exactly like Pegasus smells.
I just can't explain all this and I can't imagine that the sample was tipped or fake, because this was an original sample from a certified perfumery, which has a very good reputation and would never allow itself such a faux pas.
Unfortunately I can't tell you more about Pegasus, even if I would have loved to tell you more but I just don't like Pegasus at all and it doesn't develop for me either, it just stays flowery.
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Who or what is stupid here?
... I'll get to that in a minute.
Bleu de Chanel EdP I had tested at that time shortly after release, because I liked the EdP from the scents better than the EdT, whereas I had never tested the EdT before. When I first tried BdC EdP, I liked it right away, even though I'm actually very picky! Back then, after the test, it was clear: You must have it! So I bought the perfume and to this day I'm still satisfied with it.
So... but who or what is stupid here? NOBODY! I had to think of User Schoork and Mr. Spangler when Mr. Spangler mentioned the "stupid Chantal". But it's true, if you pronounce Bleu de Chanel without a pause in between, it actually sounds like "stupid Chanel", which is why we often ask the question: "Why is that stupid?" Then you always have to explain that this is not Stupid but Bleu - French for blue and B L E U is written.
Scent:
When spraying you can smell the lemon very well and slightly the tangerine. After some time, the smell becomes pleasantly woody, with the lemon remaining present the whole time. Believe it or not but I can actually smell the vanilla out but only if I go very close with my nose and take a deep breath. The vanilla smells very light but nice and natural (no vanilla sugar etc.) but more like vanilla pulp or similar, so very pleasant. BdC EdP is not going through a huge development, i.e. it smells very pleasantly lemony and slightly woody all the time, and I also mean somehow very slightly fruity.
I don't know about durability and sillage, because I never tested it and never looked at the watch, but it is enough for one working day (8 hours). I myself consider the Sillage to be moderate, i.e. it radiates normally and does not feel hundreds of meters like an MFK Grand Soir. With BdC EdP you will certainly not annoy or even kill anyone (as far as the Sillage is concerned).
Bleu de Chanel EdP smells very clean and pleasant and is therefore suitable for all occasions but especially for work.
So if you're looking for a good perfume at a good price, which you can actually wear anytime, anywhere and at any season and time of day, you won't go wrong with BdC EdP. If you want something more exciting and exclusive, you won't be able to avoid buying an expensive perfume that cracks the €100-200€ mark.
Bleu de Chanel EdP I had tested at that time shortly after release, because I liked the EdP from the scents better than the EdT, whereas I had never tested the EdT before. When I first tried BdC EdP, I liked it right away, even though I'm actually very picky! Back then, after the test, it was clear: You must have it! So I bought the perfume and to this day I'm still satisfied with it.
So... but who or what is stupid here? NOBODY! I had to think of User Schoork and Mr. Spangler when Mr. Spangler mentioned the "stupid Chantal". But it's true, if you pronounce Bleu de Chanel without a pause in between, it actually sounds like "stupid Chanel", which is why we often ask the question: "Why is that stupid?" Then you always have to explain that this is not Stupid but Bleu - French for blue and B L E U is written.
Scent:
When spraying you can smell the lemon very well and slightly the tangerine. After some time, the smell becomes pleasantly woody, with the lemon remaining present the whole time. Believe it or not but I can actually smell the vanilla out but only if I go very close with my nose and take a deep breath. The vanilla smells very light but nice and natural (no vanilla sugar etc.) but more like vanilla pulp or similar, so very pleasant. BdC EdP is not going through a huge development, i.e. it smells very pleasantly lemony and slightly woody all the time, and I also mean somehow very slightly fruity.
I don't know about durability and sillage, because I never tested it and never looked at the watch, but it is enough for one working day (8 hours). I myself consider the Sillage to be moderate, i.e. it radiates normally and does not feel hundreds of meters like an MFK Grand Soir. With BdC EdP you will certainly not annoy or even kill anyone (as far as the Sillage is concerned).
Bleu de Chanel EdP smells very clean and pleasant and is therefore suitable for all occasions but especially for work.
So if you're looking for a good perfume at a good price, which you can actually wear anytime, anywhere and at any season and time of day, you won't go wrong with BdC EdP. If you want something more exciting and exclusive, you won't be able to avoid buying an expensive perfume that cracks the €100-200€ mark.
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