The Trained Nose

Guerlain

Guerlain Shalimar Parfum Initial L'Eau Si Sensuelle

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 white flowers, 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
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 Guerlain Shalimar Parfum Initial L'Eau elsewhere 431 / 61
Guerlain Shalimar Parfum Initial elsewhere 309 / 110
Guerlain Shalimar Cologne elsewhere 21 / 26
Guerlain L'Initial elsewhere 8 / 3
Guerlain Mon Guerlain Florale elsewhere 5 / 8
Prada Infusion d'Iris Eau de Parfum Absolue elsewhere 3 / 6
Chanel Chanel No 5 Eau Premiere (2015) elsewhere 2 / 3
Creed Green Irish Tweed elsewhere 1 / 1
Guerlain Shalimar L'Essence elsewhere 1 / 2
L'Erbolario Ibisco elsewhere 28 / 22
Guerlain Shalimar Parfum Initial A Fleur de Peau elsewhere 13 / 3
Guerlain Shalimar Legere elsewhere 8 / 8
Guerlain Shalimar Eau Légère elsewhere 6 / 8
Nocibé Woody Mirage elsewhere 2 / 3
Bottega Veneta Bottega Veneta elsewhere 1 / 2
L'Artisan Parfumeur Drôle de Rose elsewhere 1 / 1
Lancôme Peut-Etre (La Collection Fragrances) elsewhere 1 / 2
Etro Shaal Nur elsewhere 1 / 1
Stella McCartney Stella in Two Peony elsewhere 1 / 2

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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