tl;dr — a diet gourmand; meh.
Perfumistas as a group tend towards Guerlain-worship, and why shouldn’t they? Jicky, Shalimar, Après L’Ondée, L’Heure Bleue, Mitsouko, Chamade, Vetiver: these are excellent good reasons. But the respect accorded the Guerlain brand by perfumistas today, in 2017, continues to puzzle me. It isn’t like Guerlain hasn’t made anything worth smelling since their glory days, but my guess is that if you took all the brand’s output in the modern era (let’s say, 1990 and beyond) and you released it under some other, less illustrious brand name, that brand would get considerably less attention from avid fragrance fans…
