Angelina Jolie for Mon Guerlain, directed by Terrence Malick. Then below the jump, perfumer Thierry Wasser talks about the fragrance.
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The legends of Shalimar is my favorite video ad for this house, but Ms Jolie does a great job in this one. Didn’t realize she had so much art work on her, its very cool..
I can listen to Thieirry Wasser talk about perfume for hours. He is very easy on the eyes and enthusiastic.
I am was reading on the fragrantica about this new release and it comes with mix opinions, most not good. But I don’t follow the herd, so I will try it out myself.
She is highly decorated
According to Monsieur Guerlain, it’s virtually identical to Mon Exclusif.
I love to listen to Wasser. Funny, that the same thing he says here wouldn’t read nearly as well in just ad copy. And Robin, he never mentioned the “M” word (musk)!
Is there hope?
IMHO, no, there is no hope! He did not mention it because it isn’t in the PR stuff. I would bet there is musk, and it’s probably white musk.
Also, this is said to be nearly identical to Mon Guerlain, which listed the notes as bergamot, mandarin, sugared almond, lavender, solar accord, iris, sandalwood, musk, toffee.
Ha, and just realized Mon Exclusif had WHITE musk, by looking at my own article.
https://nstperfume.com/2015/05/11/guerlain-mon-exclusif-new-perfume/
But also adding, don’t know why you are worried about the musk? Nearly everything has musk, even scents that don’t list it. If you really hated all synthetic musks, I think you’d hate perfume in general.
This is a very interesting observation, Robin. One learns something every day! Not a fan of musk or gardenia but know that when very well-blended both can be unobtrusive.
Some musks are very light, and many fragrances have so little that it’s hardly noticeable. But fragrances with zero musk are more rare than not. And lists of notes that tell you everything in the scent are nearly as rare as unicorns
Like you say if it’s very light or hardly noticeable, that’s okay; the smell I dislike so much is when it smells either like laundry detergent or deodorant.
If J. P. Guerlain used musk, it wasn’t something I noticed over the Guerlainade. However, whatever Wasser uses takes over the drydown.
I don’t know if my skin amps musk or if I just have a heightened perception of it, but in so many of the newer fragrances that’s all I smell from the mid-point on.
I’ll quit whining now.
Thierry Wasser uses a noticeable amount of white musk. I hate it too. But I have not, so far, found it all that meaningful to look for white musk in lists of notes — whether or not companies list it seems unrelated to how much the final product smells like laundry detergent. All the same, it is true that I gripe when I see it anyway
Thrilling, I have to say. Glad they’re keeping Malick busy.
That video… it is absolutely enchanting and luminous! I feel breathless and excited from watching it! Angelina is so extraordinarily transcendently glorious and spellbinding… she radiates like the sun! I. Simply. MUST MUST MUST buy this!!!!! Resplendently splendiferous!!!!!
The advertising has fulfilled its purpose 100% ????
if they were selling that dress she wears at the end I would buy it in a snap!