The Trained Nose

Guerlain

Guerlain Shalimar Parfum Initial L'Eau

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 powdery flowers underneath. It narrows as the day goes on, and it is among the shortest-lived things here. It carries more white flowers 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 Parfum Initial elsewhere 1000 / 237
Guerlain Guerlain Shalimar Parfum Initial L'Eau Si Sensuelle elsewhere 431 / 61
Guerlain Shalimar Cologne elsewhere 24 / 31
Guerlain L'Initial elsewhere 13 / 7
Guerlain Mon Guerlain elsewhere 8 / 15
Guerlain Shalimar Eau de Toilette elsewhere 7 / 11
Avon Today Tomorrow Always For Him elsewhere 4 / 4
Dior Dior Homme Intense elsewhere 2 / 2
Guerlain Shalimar L'Essence elsewhere 1 / 1
L'Erbolario Ibisco elsewhere 38 / 35
Faberlic Faberlic by Valentin Yudashkin Gold elsewhere 35 / 48
Guerlain Habit Rouge L'Eau elsewhere 18 / 18
Guerlain Shalimar Parfum Initial A Fleur de Peau elsewhere 13 / 2
Vivienne Westwood Let It Rock elsewhere 7 / 8
La Perla Creation elsewhere 6 / 10
Mizensir Eau de Gingembre elsewhere 3 / 4
Heretic Parfum Holi Water elsewhere 2 / 3
4160 Tuesdays Midnight in the Palace Garden elsewhere 2 / 2
Rosendo Mateu Olfactive Expressions Rosendo Mateu Nº 3 Neroli, Iris, White Musk elsewhere 2 / 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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