After 2021’s Vanilla Planifolia and last year’s Tonka, the folks at Guerlain are trying to generate another burst of frenzied buying with a third entry in the limited edition Shalimar Millesime series, this time with Millesime Iris. I reviewed the scent on YouTube the other day. Here’s a link to the video: Guerlain Shalimar Millesime Iris review.
The purist in me could spend a great deal of energy getting worked up about the very considerable distance between this flanker and Shalimar proper – and, crucially, between it and a scent that could justifiably be called Iris – but there wouldn’t be much point in doing that. When you’re faced with olfactory calories of this magnitude – the emphasis in this scent is massively on caramel notes – there’s little you can do but throw your arms up in surrender and hope that the pennies generated by this release will enable Guerlain to release something less heavy-handed and more interesting in the future. In the meantime, I shall remain grateful that I still have the superior Vanilla and Tonka variants in my collection.
Persolaise
[Guerlain Shalimar Millesime Iris review based on a sample obtained by me in 2023.]
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Vanilla and Tonka. Stick with these two. The new one is a big pass. Got it.
Well, it’s not to my liking, anyway.
I first tried this new flanker on a tester strip, and all I got was sugar, even a day after.
But on my skin, it develops completely differently. I get Tonka and bitter almond and some iris. But hardly any sugary sweetness. Despite what I expected, it’s a like for me.
I’ll wear it for October and will switch over to last year’s flanker in November.
This is really interesting — thanks for sharing. And I’m so pleased you’re enjoying the scent.
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