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My Signature
627 reviews
Guerlain are really good at misnaming their perfumes, in my opinion, and this is no exception. It's a sultry, slightly green, brooding iris scent, very complex, and dynamic. It has elements of the stemmy green floral lightness found in Joyeuse Tubereuse, and the dusty iris is immediately evocative of that found in Iris Torréfié. I like this shared DNA, it gives consistency to the line whilst those fragrances are actually pretty different. The jasmine takes a back seat at first, just giving a bit of flesh to the shadowy composition. It's a nighttime scent, a dark, spooky dreamland with twinkling beauty, an English garden bathed in magical twilight. Then after an hour or so the jasmine comes forward and begins honking and throbbing, a bit like a rich tuberose can do, but it's not skanky to my nose. There's some quite prominent aldehydes on top of it all, but nothing too overwhelming.
Very complex, super savoury, and unique. I'm not sure how I feel about it yet but I can't deny it's interesting. The note breakdown above seems accurate, I can make everything out. The cinammon seems slightly at odds with the mix, but I think it might grow on me. That said, there is a slight hint of cheap, tinned tomato soup. The kind that's a nuclear orange/red colour and contains like 10% tomatoes.
I've smelled a lot of other perfumes that offer this type of nutty, resinous, chocolatey scent, but this is the only one that doesn't have a horrible, harsh fixative underlying it all. This is an absolutely wonderful perfume, delicious and addictive, gourmand but dry. It looks like they've bought it back recently after it'd been impossible to find for a while. It would be really great if it were available in bigger formats, but as the performance is great, 15ml is better than nothing. Perfect for cold weather.
An assault on the senses with a beautiful drydown 12 hours later. The opening is horrifying clash of jarring, pungent, random notes that makes me feel sad. It's also hyper-nuclear.
Cheap smelling designer fruity floral with ambroxan punch to the face. So boring, so many bajillions of other perfumes doing exactly this. Do people love this type of thing? I can only guess they must do, otherwise why would it be so prolific? But who is wearing this? My guess is someone who tried this and didn't bother smelling anything else. Neeext.
Cheesey, chemically leather-esque cheese. Very aldehydic and green, honestly it smells exactly the same as Cabochard EDT, I'm smelling them side by side. Cabochard costs 17 euros for 100ml, but I hate it anyway.
Not good for Chopard, and one of Ropion's worst in my opinion. Smells like a generic designer scent, and a bad one at that.
Oh so delicious citrus top with a rich, smokey base like bonfire toffee, but not too sweet. This is a stunning old-school chypre, love it.
A very good quality, lovely perfume which won't offend anyone, but won't captivate either. It's the most polite, banal rendition of saffron I've come across, sweet and gentle. There's nothing wrong with this perfume, but it leaves me cold.
More like a Guerlain than a Chanel, perhaps because of the vanilla. It's a VERY polite, delicate little floral scent in the vein of Joyeuse Tubereuse. I always love gardenia for its lushness and this is no exception.
