The Trained Nose

Guerlain

Shalimar Philtre de Parfum

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 citrus and herbs, over vanilla and white flowers underneath. It turns over the day rather than fading. It carries more vanilla than the rest of the catalogue.

The pyramid

top 0–15 min
heart 1–3 hr
base 3 hr +
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 Cologne elsewhere 90 / 43
Guerlain Shalimar Parfum Initial elsewhere 73 / 108
Guerlain Shalimar Eau de Toilette elsewhere 47 / 12
Guerlain Shalimar Millésime Jasmin elsewhere 21 / 29
Guerlain Shalimar Ode a la Vanille Sur la route de Madagascar elsewhere 3 / 0
Guerlain Shalimar Eau de Parfum elsewhere 181 / 73
Guerlain Eau de Shalimar elsewhere 76 / 20
Guerlain Shalimar Eau de Cologne elsewhere 57 / 19
Stéphane Humbert Lucas 777 Isra & Miraj elsewhere 45 / 64
Guerlain Jicky elsewhere 43 / 43
Guerlain Jicky Eau de Parfum elsewhere 24 / 24
Guerlain Shalimar Legere elsewhere 19 / 4
Guerlain Eau de Shalimar 2009 elsewhere 16 / 4
Guerlain Jicky Eau de Toilette elsewhere 15 / 17
Guerlain Jicky Extrait elsewhere 11 / 7
Guerlain Shalimar Extrait elsewhere 11 / 5
Guerlain Shalimar Eau Légère elsewhere 9 / 2
Le Galion Special for Gentlemen elsewhere 7 / 5
Guerlain Jicky Limited Edition 2019 elsewhere 6 / 2
Carthusia Ligea (Ligea la Sirena) elsewhere 3 / 1

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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