If you haven’t had the experience of trying Guerlain’s Parfum de Champs Elysees, do yourself a favor and find some to sniff.

Here’s a case where the parfum is very different than either the edp or edt of the original Champs-Elysees. Well, maybe not the original original as that came out in 1904, but the new original from 1996. Confused yet?

For me, frankly, it is a very good thing that it borrows the name but not the scent, as the 1996 Champs-Elysees and I do not agree — or rather we agree to disagree. It is considered a fresh floral, and on me it is just way too sharp, and it gets sharper as the day wears on. It never softens. No can do this at all. Period. But I do like the bottle and I have a mini. But I do not wear it. At all. Never, ever. Every time I think, well maybe my tastes have changed or my chemistry, and I try a bit, it is definitely a scrubber.

Notes for original Champs Elysees
Top Notes: Mimosa leaves, rose, herbs, almond flower, cassis berries and leaves
Heart Notes: Mimosa, buddleia blossom
Base Notes: Almond bark, amber, hibiscus seeds

or

A Blend Of Floral Rose, Blackcurrant, Mimosa Leaves, Hibiscus, And Almond Wood.

Enter the Parfum de Champs Elysees. All that I would have liked for the 1996 Champs Elysees to have smelled like and represented, the Parfum de Champs Elysees has in spades.

And I was afraid to try it. I smelled it, but hesitated to put it on my skin, even though it smells significantly different from the get-go.

It is absolutely lovely. It stays close to the skin. So far, I have had no success in finding the notes, though I will ask Claire later today.

Because it is Guerlain, it is superb. It triumphs over other brands with ease.

I get the feeling of a spring day in Paris. There is something a bit spicy in it, maybe a bit of carnation. It is not particularly green. It isn’t a typical white floral that I cannot wear. It isn’t huge like tuberose, though it is creamy. It doesn’t move through stages, but it softens. In a way, it reminds me of the smoothness of some of the Caron parfums.

It will get under your defenses.

I’m sure it is wickedly and deliciously expensive. Call Claire Young at the Guerlain store in the Palazzo in Las Vegas (702) 732-7008 or email him at GuerlainPalazzo.STORE@lvmhuspc.com .

Tell him you heard it from me.

And let me know if you love it!

Karin

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