I’m surely the wrong person to review Guerlain’s new La Petite Robe Noire Black Perfecto, since I’ve long since lost track of all the flankers to the (currently canonical) La Petite Robe Noire from 2012, and really I can only just barely remember the difference between 2012 La Petite Robe Noire and 2011 La Petite Robe Noire and 2009 La Petite Robe Noire. All I can tell you is that I found at least one variation fun, and on the rare occasions that I’ve smelled (more? other?) versions of La Petite Robe Noire in stores, nothing happened to inspire me to do a better job of keeping track. So before smelling Black Perfecto, I consulted the expert on all things Guerlain, Monsieur Guerlain. Monsieur Guerlain, for those of you not familiar with him, has no affiliation with the brand, but as near as I can tell, he is paying far more attention to the subject of Guerlain’s fragrance output than anybody else on earth, possibly even the folks at Guerlain…
Guerlain Lui ~ new fragrance
Guerlain has launched Lui, a new unisex fragrance. Lui plays on the name (and bottle design) of 1929’s Liu…
Guerlain Oud Essentiel ~ new fragrance
Guerlain will launch Oud Essentiel, a new limited distribution unisex fragrance. Oud Essentiel joins the Les Absolus d’Orient series, and follows 2016’s Ambre Éternel…
Guerlain L’Homme Ideal Sport ~ new fragrance
Guerlain will launch L’Homme Idéal Sport, a new flanker to 2014’s L’Homme Idéal, in May. L’Homme Idéal Sport follows 2015’s L’Homme Idéal Cologne…
Guerlain Mon Guerlain ~ perfume review
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…