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porvozik – :
I feel like I am surrounded by a sweet candy cloud of raspberries and violets and powder! This is beautiful and flirty and fruity. It’s like Airspun powder with berries and violets. I LOVE makeup scents (Misia, Love Chloe, etc) and this is another fantastic one. Got a bottle for a steal (relatively) and I am so excited!
gevjan5 – :
I am reminded very much of Red Licorice and old fashioned makeup/doll heads. When I was growing up, dolls were scented with a candy like fragrance that this is reminiscent of. The tart, fruity notes recall hard rasberry candies, berry licorice whips and red twists from the candy store. But there’s a heady powdered violet note that makes this fragrance smell more expensive than sweets.
Very girly, moderately long lasting (6 hours) and beautiful. I find that this projects better than its popular sibling: Guerlain Gourmand Coquin. I often sniff my arm when I wear this. It’s just so pleasurable!
deviant – :
I love powdery scents and I always loved to have a perfume that smells like lipstick and makeup powder but I didn’t have any hopes to find one as I had sampled couple of perfume known as lipstick scents and they didn’t remind me of lipstick.I even disliked some of them,yes Lipstick On I’m looking at you
I went to the only perfume shop that has Guerlain Exclusives in my country with the purpose of testing and buying Gourmand Coquin(which I loved and purchased immediately) but first I sprayed French Kiss by mistake and I was hooked!
French Kiss is the prettiest and cutest scent I have ever smelt.it’s very powdery also very girly.superfeminine,romantic like a fairytale,beautiful like a dream,soft like angel’s wings and sparkly like lip gloss and skin glitter.It’s really hard to describe how lovely this powdery veil is.it’s a simple scent,youthful and easy to love.violet and heliotrope appear in their prettiest forms and raspberry adds a pink,fruity sparkle to this violet powder cloud.it really smells like lipsticks,fruity lip balms,lotion,face powder,powdery blushes,marshmallow and colorful macaroons.it is the epitome of feminity.I loved it so much that I couldn’t resist and bought it too.now I’m totally bankrupt thanks to French Kiss and Gourmand Coquin but I don’t regret buying them
French Kiss lasts +10 hours on my skin.it’s a soft scent but people around me easily notice it in first hours of application.to me it’s wearable year round and is a great date perfume,also lovely for girls night out.even an adorable bride perfume if you want something other than a white floral
This is my HG lipstick perfume
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horolskyva – :
Very light and sweet fruity pretty scent. But not worth the price tag unless you dont mind soft sillage.
It didnt stand out to me but im only smelling from the paper strip and need to test on skin.
Volya-atomiiic – :
The BEST makeup scent there is. This is all raspberry and violet on me. I am truly in love with this scent but the longevity and sillage are a bit upsetting considering the price. It is just so good, that you almost forget for a moment the price and want to shower yourself in it and it is all you want to smell. It is soft and delicate, yet stunningly beautiful. I love gourmand coquin, but I am just beginning to realize that I love French Kiss just as much. I initially didn’t like Guerlain as a house and now I cannot get enough. I am so glad to own this beauty, but I will not be using her often because I don’t want to use up this gorgeous juice. It is super girlie. The pink liquid is the perfect choice for this one. FK is what I would imagine a young woman that is considering becoming a nun would wear. Very innocent and sweet.
Melmq144Negeltzex – :
I thought this was quite delicate and beautiful with a luscious raspberry note, but it did not last more than 45 minutes. After that, all evidence of it on my skin was gone. I just cannot justify the money for a scent that doesn’t last as long as a body spray. I’ll stick with GC from this line–at least it lasted a respectable amount of time!
melo_manka – :
I had to decide which Guerlain fragrance to buy at DJ’s last week. It was either French Kiss or Angélique Noire. I won’t bore you with my review of the latter because I have already posted that on the appropriate page, and since I am not made of money, I had to limit myself to one or the other fragrance.
On to FK, The very helpful sales assistant gave me a 5 ml sample to keep, and sprayed my arm with French Kiss using that hopeless bulb pump that emits the most pathetic mist of fragrance. This was the first time I had tried it, and I know that writing a review after the first sampling really isn’t a worthy one, however, I am being self indulgent and putting down my first impressions.
Cherry flavoured cough medicine with bubble gum and a violet lipstick scent. Some fruit brings on the sweetness, it lasts reasonably well but it reminds me somewhat of an expensive lolly (sweet/candy). If I had to spend a similar amount on a fragrance with a vintage lipstick vibe, I think Frederic Malle’s Lipstick Rose is still my choice and the right one for me.
igi – :
I am smitten with French Kiss. The longer I wear it, the more impressed I have gotten. I did’t think a whole lot about this fragrance when I initially tested it, finding it at the time a bit on the shy side for my taste. When I gave this a proper sampling things changed dramatically. Yes, there is a shy quality to the composition still, but it is undeniably gorgeous in it’s tender, sweet fruity opening and absolutely stunning powdery violet and vanilla dry down. It is a romantic sort of fragrance to be certain, not a vixen, but an angelic creature floating on a heavenly fragrant cloud. Divine.
kolpak – :
LOVE it. I’ve been looking for a “lipstick” scent with a fruity twist, even though I am not a big fan of powder. Frederic Malle Lipstick Rose was way over the top powder to me, and I like Lipstick On, but this… this is what I’ve been searching for. This is the powder scent for people who don’t like powder. I also find that it is quite long-lasting, especially on clothes. I’m getting whiffs off my sweater almost eight hours after spraying. Now to bite the bullet and pony up for the high price tag.
oao600JeomiWogkig – :
French Kiss is so very sweet, pink and girly. If this was a piece of clothing, it would be something delicate with lace and ruffles, even though the scent is not soft but intense.
It is powdery, but not as much as I expected. I get something lipstick-like, but not like an old-timey waxy lipstick, more like a fruity one with hints of rose and iris. The rest of the fragrance makes me think of a crystal glass jar full of raspberry hard candies with powdered vanilla sugar and violet pastilles. In the beginning there is also a short phase of heliotrope taking over and making it smell very almondy. There’s generally a lot of developement and changing between powdery, fruity, sweet and floral aspects.
At times this is a bit too much of a sugary dreamy romantic cloud for me, almost too sweet, though never cheap and sickly. Then the next moment I think it’s truely beautiful again. The longer it’s on my skin, the more I like it. But to get an expensive 75 ml bottle, this is not ‘me’ enough, if that makes any sense, and not also very versatile. I wouldn’t say no to a sample or a 15 ml travel size (if they ever made one) though. It’s lovely, in the truest sense of the word.
PS: I don’t get the comparison to Lipstick On, they’re in the same scent category, but otherwise completely different to me.
vanek1977 – :
WOW. I wasn’t totally expecting this.
This is über girly, candy sweet litchi coupled with a lovely fruity raspberry and vanilla. It has an almost cherry like scent to it.
The opening is very fruity sweet but at the same time almost tart fruity. If that makes any sense. I think its almost got this fizzy syrupy sweet quality to it.
As it wears the notes blend more, I get more vanilla and heliotrope comes out. It becomes a wee bit powdery but not the same powdery that is typical of a Guerlain.
I find it more likable after 2 hours of wearing.
Love the name, Love the color of the juice, bottle is pretty.
ladygaga – :
Gorgeous. Overtook my love of Lipstick On as the best waxy lipstick smell, because it develops -into- lipstick instead of gradually developing -out- as Lipstick On does. Starts off aqueous and sweet like the lychee you find at boba shops then the orris, heliotrope, and violet take over and lend powdery floral sweetness to the mix. Raspberry is surprisingly faint for me, only appearing towards the back end of the smell and subtly so, making this feel a little younger than Lipstick On with the plastic note it imparts. Lasts long, mild projection. Full bottle worthy if you can afford it.
Aerohoplenerifcj – :
Smells very doll head to me. Plastic powdery floral fruity. Beautiful really. I don’t find the similarity to lipstick on but I do love this offering none the less. It’s feminine and soft. I feel it’s a safe blind buy. It’s not offensive and has enough in it to appeal to most. Very glad I got it!
A247 – :
The epitome of sweet, soft, and ladylike. A beautifully innocent, alluring, uplifting scent. I see the comparisons often made between French Kiss & FM Lipstick Rose – it is the less floral, more fruity, half the power version of that type of scent. Something more whimsical and fairy-like, while Lipstick Rose is a fierce, sexy, femme fatale in a bottle. French Kiss may be her younger, fairy princess sister.
The opening of this perfume is honestly a gentle, sweet powder puff. Violet, litchi, and raspberry in a gentle veil of vanilla. It begins, lives, and dies as a skin-scent, never really projecting very far away from the body. There is a slight lipstick vibe to this, but veers away from being overly powdery. A dreamy scent, one that feels like silk & mimics the excitement and comfort of being in love.
I love the atmosphere that Guerlain gives their fragrances… something so ethereal, complex, well-blended & unique in each one!
tpm742speagoessenda – :
If Hot Couture and Amarige D’Amour had a baby, it would be French Kiss. I just received a 5ml decant off of ebay and am wearing it now. It smelled so familiar all at once. At first spray I got that very distinct “hairspray” smell, which is not a bad thing. That’s the Amarige D’Amour parent right away…but then there are also sweet vanillic berries, and that’s the Hot Couture. Guerlain and Givenchy are sister companies (I used to work/sell for Givenchy & Guerlain) as a tester rep. French Kiss is so elusive that the only thing I could afford to get was a 5 ml decant off of ebay, but I’m glad I got to smell it. It’s not ground-breaking, but it’s nice.
rakot198708 – :
I wait in vain for the day that I can finally purchase a full bottle of this beauty, as we don’t have a Guerlain store here. I only have a sample bottle which I’ve sparingly tested over the last 2 years as I don’t know if I can ever get another. After smelling French Kiss, everything else just seems dull in comparion. Might need to find a dupe that can fulfil that void until such a time.
BreertCeRpelt – :
I really love this one!
I find it safe enough that it shouldn’t offend people no matter where I wear it but different enough that I don’t smell like anyone else.
The most noticeable notes for me are the raspberry, violet, orris and vanilla with rose a little behind. I do wish the rose was a little more prominent, as I really enjoy Guerlain’s roses.
I had bought this when I was planing my trip to Pairs and I wore the entire time I was looking at rooms and places to visit and walking tours etc…It was also on the jacket that I took with me on that trip, so now it’s got a scent memory of a super happy time!!
I do wish it was not so expensive, but I guess the upside of that is I know it won’t ever be a fragrance that everyone will buy.
Aeronia – :
Stunningly beautiful raspberry-cherry-rose-vanilla composition. Extremely fleeting. Normally fragrances last well on me, much longer than on other people, but this one lasts only about 1 hour. Also extremely expensive. I want to cut the price by at least half, and make it last at least twice as long.
dgin – :
I can’t smell this. Maybe a faint cherry water, but only very faint. I must be ansomatic to the musk in this. This has only happened to me a couple of times with fragrance. Another one I can’t smell well is Sensuous Nude by EL. It’s so odd when you pretty much can’t smell a fragrance.
ThomasScribner – :
Yummy, fun, gently fruity, floral soft. It is slightly candy like without being cloying. Dries down to a warm powdery musk.
wze910InsuffBooni – :
French Kiss notes brings me the memories of my mom smell without being old style
The sweetness that reside in your memories when you were a little girl and you ate those fruity candies without being childish or sugary
The aura of femininity in a Degas’ ballerina paint.
It’s so timeless,
So tender…
So there…
So Paris…
Is the definition of everything that is beautiful.
It has a lot of presence without being loud, just as a modern and classy mademoiselle. It’s such an honest fragrance, it does not play with you, making you believe something that it is not, pretty in the opening when you apply it in the morning, and prettier in the evening when you still get whifts of “a very whimsical French kiss”.
Highly recommended. Very happy with my purchase.
njv974intitytek – :
I thought this would be too light for my tastes. However, My nose keeps going to the back of my hand to catch another whiff. Amazing fruity powder fragrance! Delicious is an understatement.
acquirmimpame – :
Guerlain’s French Kiss is essentially a lighter version of FM’s Lipstick Rose with the addition of some candied berries (and I cannot comment on the comparisons with MMM’s Lipstick On, as I haven’t sampled that one yet).
I found this perfume to be a temperamental and weather dependent fragrance on me; sometimes, I get the super sweet, bright and juicy top-notes of mostly raspberry, before it quickly progresses into the lipstick dry-down, and other-times this zooms straight to the lipstick part and bypasses all of the fruit, which is a little disappointing. I don’t find this to be as plush, as rich, or as textural as Lipstick Rose, in which I can smell the silkiness of the lipstick itself. It lacks the depth that Lipstick Rose has. French Kiss is lighter and softer, with it’s rosy-violet lipstick accord, a tinge of vanilla and a soft powdery dry-down. Thus, I don’t find French Kiss to be as evocative, although I do consider it a beautiful smell, so Lipstick Rose still remains my favourite of the genre. Soft to moderate sillage on me, longevity was for about 6-7 hours 🙂
rolexreplica42670 – :
Wow! This is a wonderful perfume and I’m happy to have a full bottle in my wardrobe! I don’t find this to be immature, I think this is quite a lovely sophisticated but playful cherry-ish raspberry lipstick/makeup scent-the name suits it well. It makes me think of the ‘I kissed a girl’ song! lol I’m no supermodel, but that’s the type of woman I see wearing this, supermodels in tiny drapey black dresses with wild hair, pearls and smeared lipstick! haha This is perfectly suited for a girl’s night out!
Don’t presume this is just another cheap floral/fruity scent, this is quality juice. This is actually a very potent perfume, and you can totally choke yourself out if you spray too much. It also lasts all day with just a tiny spray-so I disagree with what others have said about projection and lasting power.
Meqby588bedyWelty – :
Do you remember the McDonalds cherry pies from the 80s, with that super artificial but *yummy* “cherry” pie filling?
This is that, mostly, with a strong wash of raspberry soda and a hint of vintage lipstick (if you try really hard ~ and it’s still just wafts, hints). But it’s mostly sweet cherry pie filling (litchi reads cherry pie here) and fizzy raspberry. YUM!
I don’t get any orris when I spray my clothes, but it comes out when it’s on my skin. It’s not very powdery on me, or very musky.
This scent is adorable and addictive.
Lipstick Rose is the BEST lipstick-like scent, in my book. But this is just the cutest perfume ever. I’m not being patronizing ~ I love it and want a full bottle.
ittssprress – :
The aroma is a delicious fruity floral sweetness not typical of the mature Guerlain fragrances and closer in association to their more youthful scents like the Robe Noir series. This frag opens with raspberry and concludes with vanilla. In between the progression is floral with violets and roses. I think it smells better than the Little Black dress series. The heliotrope is what most stands out on my skin. It’s heady aromatic sweet and grown up enough for me to wear. This is a romantic girly scent that evokes Valentines Day, heart shaped cookies, candies, love letters, flower bouquets which in this case contains roses violets and heliotrope. I prefer the smell of heliotrope although I’m also a rose lover. There’s enough rose here and heliotrope put together for me to swoon. Sweet vanilla and a light white musk at the dry down and final stage of the perfume. Absolutely wonderful.
griha765 – :
The opening of this perfume is reminiscent of a cherry lolly: the effect is youthful and flirty in a Lolita-like way (and yes, I’m referring to the character by Nabokov rather than the little-girl style of dressing). This effect, the youthfulness, the flirtatiousness, remains despite the change in notes from cherry lolly to lipsticky violet. The lipstick note in this does not bring to mind a femme-fatale but that little girl, who moments before was sucking at her candy, trying on her mother’s lipstick. Only complaint is the sillage which is very, very soft although that may be a good thing for others.
h999999 – :
I was gifted this recently by a friend. I really didn’t know what to expect from French Kiss Guerlain for women. The bottle itself is understated but elegant and the juice is a beautiful blush pink. After applying (sparingly) I was rewarded with this pretty scent. It has a freshness about it, a sort of a happy fizz. It is feminine and delicious. The first note I picked up was the raspberry, not your synthesized chemical raspberry but the divine, exuberant, fresh kind. Litchi compliments the raspberry very well and the violet and vanilla temper the fruit perfectly. After a short time I get sophisticated rose blended almost seamlessly with heliotrope. This scent is just lovely, clean and powdery soft and extremely feminine. The silage is not great on me, it is very soft. I am hoping that in the summer with warm weather this beautiful perfume will radiate a little further. As for longevity I find it to be moderate.
lisavetta1985 – :
Yum! This one reminds me of a pink popsicle. Full of soft, fluffy pink powder and berries. It’s sweet and cuddly, wears very close to the skin. Cute and girly.
vapeJusuata – :
Love it. I recently came across the guerlain scents on fragrantica and decided to try one. I went to a few local stores but the ones I was interested in (french kiss, mademoiselle, Gourmand Coquin) were not available. So I went with French Kiss. It is a blast of fizzy litchi and berries upon initial spray and I love it. Within 15-30 or so minutes I think the heliotrope and florals kick in giving it a more creamy scent and that powdery makeup scent. I really love it. It is unique in my perfume arsenal and it lasts on my skin and projects enough but is not intrusive. I find it does smell a bit red candy like, but I have always loved that scent. I’m early 30s and I think it is much more age appropriate than a lot of the sweeter mainstream perfumes. I cannot wait to try more of these lovely scents, but they do make my wallet cry a little.
bakhtin – :
From a “deluxe” official sample… my thoughts… French Kiss is a pretty fruity/floral. On me, almost zero powder, which is what I wanted from it. The Raspberry and Litchee are quite prominent, and enjoyable. Sillage is not great, longevity is decent, couple of hours. Would I purchase a FB? No. I have other fragrances that give me more of what I was looking for than French Kiss supplies. I am glad I had the opportunity to try it, though.
HaliMilaRip – :
i really wanted to love this as i love so many of the guerlain niche lines. It is a lovely fruity scent with a light violet. i am not normally a violet fan but this was very pleasant. However the longevity on me was poor and silage low.I do not have the skin that projects well so i need a frag with a bit of a kick. Very disappointing and not worth the price tag. I think it would best suit someone under 35. If you like Petite robe noire you’ll love it
oz45 – :
I’ve been dyng to try this for such a long time and my latest set of samples from The Perfumed Court are here and today is the day!
So… Yeah, first impression: Definitely hard work and precision went into this to make it just right, I am sure. I do get a vaguely Keiko Mecheri – Loukhoum vibe from this too. If the rose was much more amped up, I might even put this in a Turkish delight category. I’m not saying it’s gourmand but I might be saying I kind of want to eat my hand right now…
I also have L’Artisan’s Drole de Rose to check out, it’s supposed to be their lipstick scent so we’ll see how they do but I already feel like French Kiss has won the battle.
The lipstick scented perfume thing is a nicher than niche market so there aren’t many competitors to begin with: Frederick Malle – Lipstick Rose is another big one.
Comparing ingredients, violet and rose are a MUST but I love that French Kiss takes it into a raspberry twist. Along with the litchi, it really kicks that ‘Lipstick smell’ up into fantasy territory.
If you hate raspberries or don’t have that emotional thing for ‘lipstick smell’ just skip it, not worth the $$$. But if you’re one of those unicorn hunters that goes after highly specific scents like me, you might want to give it a try!
Angemsosteomy – :
Absolutely wonderful! Warm and comforting, and a bit of a cherry vibe to it. Very nice! You can order this from the Guerlain store in Toronto and they deliver all over North America, and it’s cheaper than on EBAY. I’m saving up, it’s worth the cost.
redtesla – :
Divine!!!!!!!!!!
Not an ounce of synthetic verve…
I had been holding my breath until the first spritz… and WOW!
The softest, sweetest, powdery-tart berries I have ever smelled on skin….
The demure rose and violets tone down the sweet gourmand and it is just so uniquely dimensional…
True, cost and availability might be questionable, but this is one of those “worthy of the quest and price”!…
ryzikan – :
French Kiss is just so darn CUTE!!! But in a sophisticated way that only Guerlain could pull off 😉
It is soft, happy, fruity, powdery, candied, juicy, optimistic, violetty prettiness all bottled up! However, it doesn’t smell like a body spray, or a kid’s scent. It’s really fine-tuned and tempered so that it stays sweet and fresh without any of the notes veering into the cloying level or overpowering each other. It also stays pretty linear on me with maybe some of the fruitiness dying down.
I don’t like any of the Petite Robe Noir line, but I could see how this has a similar vibe. Also, the litchi in this is so much more agreeable to me than it is in Idylle. French Kiss is just much smoother, quieter, and non-intrusive.
Great for all ages (I’m 43). I think French Kiss would be a huge seller if it wasn’t so exclusive and expensive.
FireG – :
~ As a man let me be one of the first to review what “French Kiss” evokes in me! As I love smells all smells irregardless of label and when I am fortunate enough to incidentally or on purpose be blessed with a feminine ‘fume I feel compelled to give a man’s opinion to my fellow perfumista’s. And my “initial sample impression” of this Guerlain is the scent of youth an eternal youth in a woman perhaps evoked by the candy sweet fruitiness. I think any women of any age could wear this and capture that youthful image and still be a proper discreet mademoiselle!
For this and the image it evokes in my minds eye compliments of my nose. She is a long distance slightly fuzzy iris blown kiss that is hard to catch. And I see a woman with a girlish charm teasing and whispering on the wind while holding a small bouquet of flowers tossing the peddles into the waves giggling as they fall. You desire to kiss her aura of litchi but your lips are happily left empty as her soft sillage wrapped in raspberry sweetness escapes! But she’ll be back always back in another future perfume dream.
Kind Regards, Plat ~
Khachik2008 – :
Fruity, juicy and a little bit powdery, but not too much. It’s pretty well blended and the rose and the jasmine are definitely in there, but the one standout note for me is the raspberry. I guess there’s some additional fruitiness coming from the litchi. I’ve never thought of litchi as being very fragrant, but then most of the litchi fruit I’ve encountered came at the bottom of a glass of vodka; I’ve certainly never encountered one in the wild.
Anyway, I like this and I suspect I would like it more if I could spray it liberally instead of dabbing it daintily, because this stuff doesn’t stray far from the wrist.
Also, it’s very pretty with its pink juice and silver trim…like somebody turned the Womanity bottle upside-down. And then gave it a more tasteful manicure.
I hate to bring filthy lucre into the discussion, but 260.00 buys a lot of raspberries on my side of the tracks, so while I enjoyed it thoroughly I will probably never be the proud owner of a lovely bottle of French Kiss.
blejk88 – :
It’s a beautiful sweet perfume. For some reason it smells a lot like licorice on me. Licorice and sweet berries. Milder than LPRN and much more wearable for me.
I would not buy a FB of this, but I will enjoy my sample until the end. 🙂
Tim_583 – :
Finally tested this a couple of days ago and I’ve already ordered a full bottle for myself. Perfect Valentine’s Day present.
To me this is what SL Louve and Keiko Mecheri Loukhoum should have been. Not screaming-in-your-face strong, but soft and delicious. It has those same rosy, sweet marzipan, powdery, candy notes with a little fruit thrown in. Very nice.
And while it is soft, there is still sillage. The longevity on me is also above average. I could still smell it on my arm the next day. It’s love for me.
FWIW, I detest Fred Hayman’s Touch With Love. That horrid musky note makes that one a real scrubber for me (as in I actually had to use a Dobie pad to get it off my hand). I also didn’t find any similarities with the lovely French Kiss.
Metr1987Metr – :
I’ve held off from reviewing this for a while in the hope of working out how to capture it in words better – I still don’t think it’s going to happen! I’ve developed a habit of buying perfume at the airport whenever we’re off on holidays in the hope that the fragrance can capture the memory of the holiday… although this fragrance wasn’t bought at the airport (only available at Guerlain stores or exclusive distributors I think?), it’s sort of fallen into that category as I find it quite similar to the one I did buy from the airport – La Petite Robe Noire parfum. I was surprised and transfixed by LPRN – it’s sparkling, fresh and fruity and it has a surprisingly clean and uplifting dry down that I never expected. The cherry note was particularly surprising as I felt it may be too cloying initially but it settled into being my favourite part – and then lasted on and on and on. French Kiss is very similar to LPRN to me… almost to the point that I questioned whether I should be buying two such similar fragrances. However, I find French Kiss to be notably warmer – still cherry but with a bit of strawberry and creamy vanilla. When I had LPRN on one wrist and French kiss on the other, the difference was very obvious – absolutely delicious! The difference to me is much like Crystal Noir to Hypnotic Poison – so many similarities but the first being summer and the second being winter. The longevity and silage of French Kiss aren’t monsters on me but it dry’s down to a beautiful soft skin scent that lasts several hours. The top notes and heart are my favourites though – I want to be able to smell it as long as possible. Anyway, the differences between LPRN and French Kiss were enough to convince me to spend all that money on yet another fragrance and I’m very, very happy I did… I love them both and neither of these are like anything else in my collection. My latest favourites and a duel reminder of our wonderful Christmas holiday in Hong Kong.
Mercury-095 – :
As i`ve seen in many reviews- this gem is misunderstood as a fruity fragrance. Despite the berry and lychee notes in the opening-it is`nt at all !
If you realise it from the very start,you can give them a chance it realy deserves.
On me it is a wonderful mix between rosey marzipan and powderpuff from the effervescent Moulin Rouge past… I smell a little tartiness from the fruits at the beginning, like a raspberry macarons ,savored slowly and with pleasure.
Then – traraaa !!! A big entree of a wonderful,captivating and dazzling Cocotte fom the Belle Epoque… With all their glitters,colors,ruffles and marabou feathers… In cloud of powder she comes,with white face, rosey cheeks and drop-dead-red lipstck… Flamboyant but oh so charming…She offers you delights,champagne and a lot of fun… Tons of it.. .All day and all night long…
This is French Kiss for me. Pure delight and fun. Very retro,powdery dance with the past. Very present interpretation of- yes,you might be astonished- of the Heure Bleue legend. But where Heure is melancholic and introvertive,is this one loud and flashy joyful .
But what it for sure isn`t – one of this mediocre dethly boring department/drugstore fruit concotions. Overpriced? May be,but it lasts days on my clothes and good 24 hours on my skin. And it gives me incomparable pleasure ,and it` s worth every penny. Dreams haves no pricetag.
Thanks Guerlain for this jewel !
seesseHuddins – :
Like most folks who posted reviews, I’d been very excited about this release and calling all over Guerlains in & out of the country for a small sample since last summer. Well, thanks to a generous perfumista who’d gotten a hold of a vial and sent to it to me, I was finally able to test it on my skin.
First of all, this perfume does not cling to skin at all. Despite the oversaturated application on one wrist, it stayed on me for no more than 3 hours. The projection was also very close. I could easily call this a skin scent.
As for the fragrance, without looking at the notes, I first get juicy berries. This is absolutely the best phase but sadly lasted about 5 minutes before the fragrance turned entirely powdery on me. I mostly get heliotrope as far as the floral notes. The base isn’t very strong, which would explain why this stuff fades from my skin so fast. After a couple of hours I got some extremely faint, powdery, vanilla-musk before French Kiss made a complete exit. One of the reviewers below used the words “baby diaper” to describe this fragrance and I wholeheartedly agree. It smells like baby diapers or baby powder; reminiscent of Love’s Baby Soft. If you are a berry/violet/rose combination fan like I am, you may want to try Fred Hayman’s Touch with Love. That perfume is what French Kiss attempted to be, should’ve been, but could not. Touch with Love smells exactly like a lipstick or a makeup bag, more accurately capturing the impression of a kiss. It is also a much more affordable and better quality substitute for those notes. Other alternative (and less powdery) recommendations are Van Cleef & Arpels Feerie EDP and Balenciaga L’Eau Rose. These are much better compositions starring those three notes.<