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Shalimar Eau de Toilette

What it is made of, at the heart of a wearing — and the colour this page is tinted with. Wider means more of it.

Leads white flowers and citrus, over vanilla underneath. It narrows as the day goes on. It carries more vanilla than the rest of the catalogue.

The pyramid

top 0–15 min
Bergamot
heart 1–3 hr
Iris · Jasmine · Rose
base 3 hr +
Vanilla · Tonka Bean
Consensus needs more than one owner. Right now no one has this linked, so there is nothing to agree or disagree about yet.

What is it chasing?

No original is recorded for this entry. Two kinds of evidence, and they disagree in useful ways.
Closest, as Akin sees it
Ranked by what the crowd says resembles what, with the measured accords breaking ties — falling back to the note pyramid where neither has anything to say. Right about half the time, and the column says which of the three answered.
What people say it reminds them of
Agree and disagree counts. Here is this site’s own owners voting; elsewhere is a tally read from another site.
Guerlain Shalimar Parfum elsewhere 103 / 24
Guerlain Shalimar Cologne elsewhere 73 / 58
Guerlain Shalimar Millésime Jasmin elsewhere 53 / 39
Guerlain Shalimar Philtre de Parfum elsewhere 47 / 12
Guerlain Shalimar L'Essence elsewhere 39 / 31
Guerlain Habit Rouge Eau de Parfum elsewhere 22 / 15
Guerlain Shalimar Eau de Parfum elsewhere 510 / 58
Guerlain Shalimar Eau de Cologne elsewhere 131 / 17
Molinard Habanita La Cologne elsewhere 85 / 83
Mugler Oriental Express elsewhere 56 / 58
Le Labo Labdanum 18 elsewhere 53 / 56
Новая Заря (The New Dawn) Shalilar elsewhere 52 / 32
Guerlain Habit Rouge Parfum elsewhere 39 / 22
Coty Emeraude elsewhere 35 / 28
Guerlain Eau de Shalimar elsewhere 33 / 11
Diptyque Eau Lente Eau de Toilette elsewhere 31 / 32
Guerlain Shalimar Eau De Parfum Serie Limitee elsewhere 31 / 0
Fragonard Reve Indien elsewhere 29 / 10
Guerlain Shalimar Eau de Parfum (2009 Limited Editions) elsewhere 27 / 10
Guerlain Shalimar Millésime Vanilla Planifolia elsewhere 24 / 18

Compared with

Each of these reads the two side by side, hour by hour: what they share, what only one of them carries, and what people who have smelled both say about it.

On the scent map

Nearest to it at the heart of a wearing, and what put each one there.
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