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Guy – :
I love Annick, I love Vent de Folie, I was expecting something similar and yes, this has the same “syrupy” quality but in this big love story. the object of one’s dreams, feelings and desires seems to be five feet under. :)) On me it smells like night, dirt, death leaves, myrrh and leather. Dark and morbid, sort of interesting and intriguing but not sure if it is also wearable. I can see myself wearing it on Halloween. Some perfumes are an acquired taste, though, so let’s see.
UPDATE: I can finally smell the hyacinth and the lilly. Coincidentally, when I got Grande Amour I was wearing A Scent by Yssey Miyake, which is way stronger, so my nose wasn’t able to detect any of the white flowers. It’s an OK perfume.
hji394speagoessenda – :
Grand Amour is all about the hyacinth. I love the hyacinth, but unfortunately this is too much for me.
ggsdg – :
احد العطور الناعمة للسهرات الخاصة لمن لا يحبون العطورات القوية والصارخة في نفس الوقت عطر حالم الثباث و الفوحان فوق المتوسط اعتبره عطر اغوائي الى حدا ما
linar1968 – :
I think this is a lovely scent, and it is evocative of its name, in that it feels nostalgic. The “grand amour” it references is a memory, hence the funereal lily and the “sorrow flower” hyacinth. Unfortunately, it just does not suit me. I feel wrong when I wear it. I wore it today in a last attempt to see if it could stay a part of my perfume wardrobe, but it cannot, so I will try to give it to someone whom it will suit better. As a side note, the cheap plastic cap does a real disservice to the fragrance, because it smell, obviously, like cheap plastic.
andrej_1977 – :
I love the opening but then it settles into something very animalic. Its such a shame as I love the bright sweet floral start. Yes I get the hyacinth, Lily and mimosa start but they are soft and sweetened by the honeysuckle and rose. A glorious start but then there is a big whack of animalic leather and musk. I now become aware of a little myrrh and amber. It then fades away so no the longevity is not great. The sillage is poor.
I envy anyone for whom this works as I LOVE the start.
jlr525speagoessenda – :
A green, heady floral with some bitterness underneath. A huge bouquet of flowers smacking you in the face. Unusual for a Goutal – which tends to be a bit more restrained – and GA is most emphatically *not*. In other fragrances this can give an exuberant character but here it’s just a rather murky cacophony of notes that never settles down. Not the worst thing I’ve smelled, just kind of “meh”.
eugeny.rumyantzeff – :
ForestFairy is spot on about Grand Amour being Wuthering Heights in a bottle! Brilliantly articulated. This is the scent I’d imagine to embody a love that spans the decades, unbreakable. The spiciness of this scent makes it feel rare and exotic, and I detect the warmth of incense as well. Deep, dark, melancholic; all in all, quite beautiful. VERY vintage (which I happen to adore).
Div11 – :
Oh my, what a romantic, gothic, haunting, melancholic beauty. This truly is descriptive of a grand amour, a love that lasts beyond one’s lifetime – it makes me imagine a ghost of a loved one haunting. This is Wuthering Heights in a bottle.
Fragrance-wise, the floral notes are both white and green at the same time, very strong, creamy but also a bit screechy, especially with the strong hyacinth note; surely not to everyone’s taste. At some point it takes a clear twist to the dry down which is magic. I don’t get any leather personally but mostly myrrh and vanilla. The dry down is my favourite part and I wish it lasted longer and was stronger. I have got a sample of the EdP version and based on this, I would not care to try the EdT. If it were not the high price, I would certainly buy a full bottle. Right now I’m considering some cheaper myrrh perfume instead, but I suppose I might still get my hands on this some time in the future. The notes are so natural and realistic, as always with Annick Goutal, there’s nothing synthetic about it.
gorinich – :
I am in love! What a delicious creamy flower perfume. Not your usual flowerwater, but a perfume that envelops you in a thick bouquet with hyacint and lily, with a vanilla-like fullness (without being too vanilla, but it has the body as if it were vanilla), I hope this makes sense, it is too complex to give an accurate description….. But I keep grabbing this bottle (mid winter).
PS: I have the edp, does anyone know if the edt is different from the edp (apart from the concentration)?
vqb162bedyWelty – :
Grand Amour is an intoxicating waxy floral with a rich, oriental leather base. It is equal parts timeless, seductive and comforting.
I first sought out Grand Amour in my hunt for the ultimate hyacinth scent. In that respect, it doesn’t disappoint – the hyacinth note here is bitter, green and photo-realistic. Waxy white lily and jasmine bolster its verdancy, while honeysuckle and mimosa lend a touch of sweetness. The heady florals sit atop a rich base of dark leather, musk, amber and resins. The base lends not only depth, but also much-needed tension to the composition.
Grand Amour is often discussed as the poorer cousin of Guerlain’s Chamade. The comparisons are apt, but they are still two very different scents. Where Chamade’s base is balsamic, resinous, and gently spicy, Grand Amour is powdery and leathery, with only enough resins to hint at an oriental base. The two scents open similarly enough, but go on to diverge wildly.
It’s possibly more useful to consider Grand Amour as the successor to Heure Exquise, its sibling born 12 years earlier. Like the latter, Grand Amour plays with intense, powdery floral notes – but it warms them up considerably with its oriental base. The result is opulent and romantic, like velveteen brushed against a thigh.
My verdict? C’est un très grand amour.
gudim000 – :
EDT (2011):
after reading some the reviews I was very reluctant to try this, but having just scored a vintage extrait of Chamade (of which this has been likened to) on eBay, curiosity got the better of me.
for one, i do not get any of the talked about leather, or “nasty”, or civet(??) undertone. there is nothing animalic, fusty or dusty about this perfume. i am a bit confused that this is classed as an oriental???
it is a floral and it is green.
lovely flowers, the kind of flowers that in real life, would intoxicate if presented as a bouquet! but in this, they gently uplift the spirits, like a breeze across a flower garden.
this begins with is a green blast. and i love AG green. this is a green rose to begin.
then immediately after that lily, honeysuckle, hyacinth. a dusting of mimosa.
i love hyacinth, but they are the only flowers in the house that trigger asthma, so to be able to wear this (almost a hyacinth soliflore on me) is personally a real pleasure.
and by the way, i don’t think it smells like Chamade Extrait. perhaps just the rose green right at the start for a moment. Chamade is a vintage that is a deeper, darker, curvaceous, Guerlain, which smells of the 1970’s to me. of the ladies wearing slinky outfits and skinny eyebrows, turning up to my parent’s parties.
Grand Amour is a bright, sunny, green, honeyed (broom) floral.
to summarise: a divine (mostly hyacinth) floral from start to finish, drying down to a beautiful skin scent, a touch sweet, green flowers, with a wisp of myrrh.
Lovely! really lovely.
rewq1995rewq – :
This perfume is melancholic,romantic and charming!. And ‘evocative,for me is a great scent, I immediately liked it, with its beautiful floral notes, which are woven in full harmony with the other notes, and then what I love about this perfume is its complexity, and its only wake, like a breath of wind,sweet,romantic… nocturnal … that dries your tears. Among the best perfumes Annick Goutal.. Fantastic.
Sillage: 6.5/10
Longevity: 8./10
Scent: 9./10
Overall: 9.5/10
TokeLouddef – :
I have a brandnew full bottle of Grand Amour and it’s too flowery for me. Anybody interested? Please message me in private.
xaritonov1959 – :
I received a sample of Annick goutal grand Amour from a fragrantica member. As soon as i sprayed it i thought i smelled rubber tires, it’s the leather note. Seconds later it morphed into a scary beautiful unique perfume. I smell dead leaves, crushed dried rose petals laid on a leather bed. It’s cold. This perfume envoked an instant vision in my mind and this had never happened so vividly to me before. I felt like it’s the fall, October, im walking through the woods at night, dead leaves crunching under my feet, and it’s chilly in the air, i can feel the cold air in my nose. I walk to a clearing and in there is an old cemetary with dried roses in vases all around the head stones from there loved ones. When you smell the perfume you actually feel like your breathing in cold air! A note in the perfume plays as if the scent itself is chilly. This perfume is very artistic. It’s beautiful, long lasting, great sillage. There’s not very many scents that can create such intense imagery with me but this one does it. It’s not something everyone will love or appreciate. It’s beautifully strange. I love it
k053925 – :
I must admit I had my problems with this fragrance. It’s a very melancholic scent. The first time I wore it, it smelled like dead flowers and foliage. Definitely an old book smell kind of perfume. I was a bit split in two with it. Then I wore it a second time and then the flowers started to appear and it was really lovely, but very subtle. I wore this one yesterday and noticed a lot of heather in it. Yes, heather! I know this smell. I think there is a mistake in the notes above and instead of leather is should say HEATHER. For those of you who are not familiar with this one, heather (Erica) is a wild flower that grows on the hills in Scotland for example and you can smell it everywhere. It has a kind of damp musty lavender like smell to it. I actually have grown to like this one now and will try to wear it more often. I don’t get any leather in it at all. And the good thing about it is that it is always different each time I wear it.
aleksham – :
A harsh love.. green and crunchy… special…
Meawg026bedyWelty – :
An hour or so into wearing the edt and I ask myself “Is this love I smell; aloof, green, bitter, unfriendly and a touch sinister?” Like love in time perhaps it will sweeten up, or perhaps it will remain cold and sorrowful. Perhaps this is just the chemistry of my skin, the twist of my interpretation. I have no objections.
fntbcn – :
Sweet Hyacinth and honeysuckle dominate the opening. It remains overwhelmingly floral for about 2 hours before ambery notes emerge and then it warms up and becomes a sensual scent.
I didn’t think I would like this scent much on opening. But it grew on me. It reminds me a small bottle of perfume I was gifted as a child. But it was such a small vial that I never wanted to waste it so i never used it and just carried the bottle everywhere and smelled it.
Sillage was moderate. Longevity – about 6 hours
7/10
артем17п – :
I am a fan of AG for her natural characteristics. I love most of their scents that are created as girly, fresh floral, but this one is very different, it’s a very classic one, which I imagine could be popular in 80’s. I recommend testing it before purchase.
gloin37 – :
I bought this based on all the great reviews. I was especially excited about the lily note. Unfortunately, all I could smell was smoke. Very disappointed that this didn’t work with my chemistry.
eugeny.rumyantzeff – :
I am wearing this today to celebrate fall. It is growing on me. I have reviewed this earlier, and said it reminds me of opening a trunk full of happy memories. I think I have pinpointed why that is for me. The rose, leather, and jasmine give the impression of dying flowers, like a bouquet left to dry. And that evokes for me the drying leaves of fall, as well as a trunk in which you might keep your dried bridal bouquet.
rfsf – :
My blind buy arrived today and I’m a very happy little vegemite! As I’m getting older, I find I’m really drawn to florals after being an oriental and leather afficianado most of my perfume loving days. Grand Amour is most suitable for a mature woman. It’s reminiscent of a bygone era of big bold floral fragrances that we see less and less these days. The notes say ‘oriental floral’ and I guess it shares the complexities of classic fragrances such as Shocking, 24 Faubourg and Capricci. I love this one – it conjures up pictures of a night at the ballet or opera. All class!
dilddo – :
EDT: With a name like Grand Amour I was anticipating a big floral smell, but I’ve been taken by surprise. The first half an hour, or so, is heavy on the leather, myrrh, and musk. As the dry down occurs some florals begin to emerge until I can make out the hyacinth, mimosa, lily and rose. This perfume is flowers with incense and leather that has a dark, fresh dewiness that lasts for a good 12 hours. It’s not sexy and it’s not flirty, to me this beauty alludes confidence wrapped in a sensual mysteriousness and sophistication. I’m really enjoying this perfume and am looking to try the EDP as well. Big love for AG!
vancik0000 – :
I don’t know why, but for me Grand Amour is a deja-vu trigger that gives me that crazy feeling: it’s so reminiscent of something – not a perfume – but emotions, time, place, people… I can’t put my finger on it and remember what exactly it reminds me of. This is absolutely weird, like getting a glimpse of your previous (or next!) lifetime! This perfume is definitely not the one for pleasing others around you, it evokes your inner grace and harmony, makes you feel different, transports you to the deepest lanes of your own mind, it’s ethereal, it’s atmospheric and it’s mysterious.
On the personal side – to me it’s 70s in Hong Kong. I don’t know why. Don’t ask. I was born in 90s in Moscow, but this is what this perfume makes me think of: silk qipao dress, jade kitten-heels, mahjong room full of cigarette smoke, harbour air… Oriental, but not in a typical way.
Thank you, Annick Goutal.
(This review is for EDP version. EDT is much more transparent and seems to be a little sweeter and ambery at the same time, which doesn’t create the same effect I was describing above but still has a little bit of that vibe).
Keydayovada – :
Grand Amour is a little too contrasting for me. The sweet flowers end up trodden on by the leather, myrh and amber.
I absolutely get the comparison with Guerlains Chamade. Chamade was a favourite of mine, years ago. Now I struggle with it as well. I will file both under Like as they would be very pleasant on the right person but not for me, at this time
Sun__Shine – :
I wanted to buy this perfume after reading the description online at Goutal website. Because of the price, I thought it would be a good idea to get a sample first to see if I would really like it. Sadly, this is not for me. I have tried it two days in a row to give it a fair chance, and I just don’t like it.
I love flower perfume, but this is just too much. when i wear it, I am hit with a strong rose smell mixed with something else I can not identify. The more I smell it, the more it makes my stomach hurt. I suggest sampling before making this expensive purchase.
bonzay – :
I wish I could say I tried this and loved this, I really wanted to!
Annick Goutal is irrefutably an outstanding perfume house. However, this one hits a very weird, aromatic, sharp note that dominates the other smells, when I wear it.
At first, it smells very strong, intriguing, fresh, a lot like roses. But a strong herbal smell dominates the rest, sort of pushes everything else aside. Once it dries out, it is leathery, vanilla roses dominated by that sharp, zesty herb smell. Maybe it is the lydia broom? The base smell is so pleasing, that herbal smell is an unfortunate thorn in the composition.
I don’t like it. I will stick with Songes!
binkAppenisiZ – :
In my opinion one of the best brands in the world but not this perfume are all admirable brand perfumes
vlad8808 – :
This perfume is a bit mature for me, with that scent of spicy floral baby powder common to 1920s perfumes. It dries down in a much softer scent that makes me think of opening an old trunk filled with party clothes from a happy night decades before. I doubt it will ever be my scent, but it smells wonderful on my mother (who gave me this bottle).
bucha23 – :
If you’ve seen the movie Minority Report, there’s a greenhouse in it where an elderly reculisve doctor lovingly grows all kinds of weird and wonderful plants. When Tom Cruise steps into it, the palatte of the film changes to a murky grey/green and the plants seem to watch him as he moves. This perfume smells like I imagine that greenhouse to smell.
It opens as a slightly dank, earthy green. Like a plant that needs to be watered. Then it develops into a soft floral, with bitter hyacinth dominating and a sweet tang of honeysuckle in the background. There’s an indolic jasmine that gradually gets louder and louder, giving off a fairly potent animalic vibe. Then we have a spicy rose popping in and out at seemingly random times.
The whole air is of something old and musty that you just can’t help but open the door to in order to find out what past beauties have been held there.
Do I like it? I have no idea. The indoles are a bit much for my personal tastes. But there’s a lot that’s good and interesting going on. I could spend a lot of time sniffing at this and being enchanted by the variations that occur. But, I don’t think I enjoy it being on my skin.
It’s an odd one.
runnei – :
This is a little too sweet for me. I get the roses as it opens but it quickly goes to an amber/vanilla finish on me – I get very little musk and no myrrh at all. I really wanted to like it, and I will give it a few more tries but I highly doubt I’ll ever buy it again.
Тоха88 – :
Grand Amour gives me the impression of a private plant nursery that is used for cosmetics experiments, mostly for anti-aging purposes. grassy, rooty, and dusti on a very delicate silky face cream made of flowers. very rare and kind of fancy.
gennady5 – :
This fragrance reminds me strong to Rouge Hermes
Tro – :
I’ve tried a handful of Annick Goutal fragrances, and most are simplistic and realistic plant based fragrances. Most smell like florals and/or greenery. Grand Amour does not.
It smells of florals and powder and soap, with the powder dominating. The first 15 seconds were exciting for me, I smelled a pretty realistic Turkish Rose and Hyacinth over a powder base, then the powder dominates, the soap comes into play and the floral is a vague undertone of the indistinguishable variety.
Not a bad composition, but not outstanding or even special. It’s pretty and light and inoffensive, which can make it a crowd pleaser, but I wouldn’t shell out money to own it.
epalsbjxbq – :
Only in the last year I purchased GRAND AMOUR. Now in this early crisp summer I can appreciate it better than in colder weather. It starts green flowery and bitter. Somehow the dominant lily troubles me more here, I also get the honeysuckle with its sweet note. The hyacinth is more in the background, if you want a strong hyacinth then look out for Carolina Herrera (the original). It develops earthy and powdery and after a few hours only a faint smell is left on the skin, while it is quite strong in the beginning. I find it also good for sport as it blooms then.
sirius52 – :
Grand Amour is a striking, mysterious fragrance. Unique, unlike anything else I’ve tried before. Bitter greens with floral background. Floral scent is quite mixed so nothing really stands out. To tell you the truth, I don’t even want to know what’s there, I just want to close my eyes and enjoy it.
Grand Amour is indeed a big love – deep and passionate, but kind of love that demands restrain. The love that is forbidden or has no happy ending. Big love with a sad eyes.
Beautiful, elegant fragrance.
kalaka93 – :
Grand Amour is a crisp spring floral. The hyacinth is dry and cool; it is reminiscent of Jacamo Silences, which is a cool galbanum rich hyacinth-centric scent. I think that GA is warmer than Silences, especially as it dries down. After 2 hours, the hyacinth has a lightly indolic smell (think fading spring flowers, not rotten, but starting to brown). I also smell something like hay and dry, green peaches. I see broom listed among the notes, and assume that is the hay-like note; it gives a lightly pastoral feel (unlike Silences, which feels more like a cemetery—in a good way!). The peaches I smell—could that be the mimosa?
As this further evolves, I get the tannic softness of the leather note, which to me further builds on the pastoral sense I got earlier from the broom. This is a “countryside spring picnic” or “Sunday afternoon drive in the country” kind of smell. The leather is there in a subtle way…it is kind of like Kelly Caleche, only with an inversion of notes; where KC is more leather and less floral, GA is more floral and less leather. They give me a similar sense of country sophistication.
Grand Amour is, sadly like all of the Goutal fragrances I’ve tried, short lived. It is fading within 3 hours to a very faint scent. Sillage was fair, although I might be underestimating that (as I find cool lily fragrances project more than I give them credit). Very pretty and elegant.
maggot – :
This was one of my forgotten favourites in the 90´s and thanks to a swap with another lovely member, i acquired it again and oh my, how could i have forgotten her. I agree ir is not an easy perfume to wear : it is not just a floral but not a real oriental either. The incredible green opening of hyacinth and honeysuckle might intimidate certain persons. The jadmin provides a bit sweetness and powdery character but it is not a huge indolic interpretation, remains soft. I just love that contrast between that fresh green opening and the powdery, lush sweet leather dry down. It is a distinct and sophisiticated frag i really love and i prefer the EDP version, it has much more body and longevity and with a very rich and warm dry down! A must try of AG house !!!
AWP1995 – :
“Grand Amour” is a great favorite of mine.
Voluptuous lily, jasmine, honeysuckle and rose, with a slight powdery finish. No fruity hints at all, no sugary notes: just luscious flowers in the top and heart notes, and unsmiling vanilla and myrrh in the background.
Great sillage and very good longevity on my skin.
Very elegant and a bit melancholic, in my opinion.
RofFroffhap – :
I really wanted to like this one. I tried it out in a large department store and really think that the bottle must have turned. All I could smell was a dark, bitter and very unpleasant smell. I love heavy hitters and own many but I just could not wait to scrub this one off. My friends who were with me said it smelled like dirty underwear which makes me think that it must have turned. Probably stored incorrectly. What a shame as I am sure that I would have loved this. I am going to try another store and another bottle.
mister.overdose – :
Like many of the earlier Goutals – because of a preponderance of natural materials, these fragrances are well-known for ‘turning’ even when well-stored.
My bottle has aged over time, but deepened, rather than altering significantly.
I smell a full-bodied, billowing floral which is distinctly indolic and lush. Some days it can feel over-the-top, but mostly it feels gloriously unapologetic and womanly.
Galalbult – :
Grand Amour! is elegant green floral. It’s compared to Chamade, which I prefer honestly. Grand Amour! is sharper and greener, Chamade is more soapy and rounder due to aldehydes I guess. In Grand Amour!dominates the hyacinth. If you do not have the possibility to test the perfume, you can go to the flower’s shop and smell the fresh hyacinth – you get exactly the opening of Grand Amour!. Then it settles down in a bit sweeter base, but remains faithful to its green soul.
I love others Annick Goutal creations!
zampolit86 – :
Voluptuous! Reminds me of some Demimonde salon in fin de siècle Paris. It’s strong and not for everyday. But it’s beautiful and lush and I’m feeling quite hedonistic right now!
Cw72 – :
a huge floral bouquet. i find it heavy, but likable. i actually get more of the lily then hyacinth, but it is definitely there. the rose is also a big player to my nose. i like this in cooler weather due to it’s heaviness and lasting power which on me is almost 8 hours. projection is moderate with a lovely dry down.
thank you to my fragrance pal for gifting me this lovely bottle.
STRELOK – :
very elegant,but not for me.It’s too much “hyacinth”.
Weeplikesse – :
Grand Amour is, to me, a lovely scent, very “Spring” in essence. I’m enjoying it. Lovely Hyacinth with a tinge of leather that gives it a bit of edge. However, I can not see the comparison to Guerlain Chamade. Nothing that I have ever smelled comes close to reminding me of Chamade. But GA is an elegant scent, nonetheless.
mechanics2 – :
I have tested wrist to wrist the present Chamade and Grand Amour.
The present Chamade is a pale ghost of what it used to be. I hope Monsier Wasser will come up with a better reformulation as this version does do Chamade no justice at all.
Grand Amour compared to Chamade is stronger and greener in the opening.
Chamade is more flowery in the opening.
Grand Amour proceeds with the greenery and then develops the flowers as a second step, the flowers starting to become more and more prominent as the fragrance settles down.
Chamade develops the green note after the flowers, totally contrary to Grand Amour, but the harmony is very similar.
Grand Amour arrives at the drydown with the green notes still there, just a little less strong, the flowers still prominent, some soap and some powder and all the woods. All together for a grand finale. A wonderful melody from beginning to end never lacking tension, never pausing, never stopping, going on and on for long.
Chamade, the current one, arrives at the drydown much faster than Grand Amour.
If you are fond of the old Chamade this is not only a grand alternative, but a winning scent in every respect.
Grand Amour is a rich floral made in a rich style, a sumptuous bouquet that might be too much if worn every day, but certainly perfect for formal occasions or when you want to feel special. Even today, yes, why not?
war41 – :
This is a GRAND floral bouquet. It’s has quite a bite. There are so many flowers coming at you it is hard to specify the one that is strongest. This is definitely spring personified..lovely but nothing so special..
Happy Perfuming!
btb738Negeltzex – :
Most of all I feel the hyacinth and mimosa notes in this fragrance.
I don’t like it. It’s boring and bitter. Just unpleasant(
himij – :
Aaah, classy, soapy, elegant, maybe 90’s green soft perfume. Immediate crush! A floral with an edge, the myrrh does the trick, can’t detect leather.
Not sexy, but gorgeous and sophisticated.
I love it!
Thanks to a very generous fragrantican…
Update: It doesn’t last very long, only dawnfall 🙁
fiore87 – :
When i smell this, my heart beats faster, no kidding. I feel the same way when i listen to Tchaikovskiy, or other great classics! This is a very sad perfume, like a love story without a happy ending. And this is the most beautiful and realistic hyacinth in a perfume i’ve ever tried. Definitely bottle-worthy. I have EDT.
eve232Diobtetty – :
This isn’t quite what I was expecting. It is a very pretty floral, but that synthetic leather note throws me off a little bit. It also doesn’t smell like hyacinths as I know them; I mostly get lily from this. The opening is rather harsh, but it dries down into something much prettier that wears very close to the skin. These aren’t fresh-blooming flowers to me, more of dried flowers that have been pressed in an old journal. This tends more toward the mature end of the spectrum, although I think I can still pull it off in the right weather. Perhaps this is best-suited for colder days? While floral, it still has a warmth to it that I can’t really put my finger on (could be the leather, could be the resin). I don’t know that this is one my boyfriend would particularly care for. It wasn’t the true hyacinth fragrance I was looking for, but it’s an excellent fragrance in its own way.
nxxxn – :
Huge gorgeous bouquet on me. No leather or vanilla. Nothing close to melancholy L’Heure Bleue. The opening is lush lily, settling down to a softer honeysuckle/scotch broom concoction. (Broom blooms in my yard in the summer, no wonder I like this juice.) With the edt, I’ve gone over 6 hours with it still detectable. I’d color this one sunny yellow.
volk-evgen80 – :
I don’t get any leather, amber or vanilla at this one. On my skin it smells like pure violet. Not bad, but I expected a lot more from one nieche fragrance.
cyp808speagoessenda – :
Someone here gave me a sample of this fragrance. This was not in my want list but it is now. I love soapy florals but it seems to me that everything I encountered until this was lacking something. This is exactly the kind of soapy I was looking for—green, with enough tingle of soap, then very natural florals in one concoction. My disappointment with Petit Cherie and Eau du Sud made me ignore the rest of the Goutals but I see now that I judged too quickly.
If I can actually see myself committing to one fragrance for many years, it would smell somewhat like this. The lily here is very lovely and perfect with the leather and I don’t know what Lydia broom is but if it is what makes this kinda woody and prickly, then I love it.
This would make a good bridal fragrance. It smells white and dainty and pure.
Dianalass – :
I tend to favor florals over fruity ones, but this floral is way too heady for me. I am struggling to make a sapient impression out of it as I sniffed it in because the intial whiff had a headache-inducing effect on me. Yet let me start with a good note, I get a picture of freshly cut grass on the meadows with white flowers sporadically scattered around, blooming under a beautiful, clear sky. There is indeed the soft and powder notes later on the drydown. I find the hyacinth flower beautiful, but I just now discovered, after taking this on a testrun, that the loud hyacinth note here is my perfume kryptonite. I am sorry to be a party pooper here but I think despite the harmony in its accord, I am gonna take a pass on a bottle of AG GA.
Ps. Thank you justas for the sample. 🙂
Aerohoplenerirkr – :
I scored an EDP off fragrancenet.com for a GREAT price!
It’s been years since I’ve worn it and I wanted something new for spring well this is wonderful…I love the Hyacinth and get some rose, powder and maybe iris. The Hyacinth is very softly blended over so it lacks the usual sharpness I dislike with this note, it’s powdery here and I LOVE it!
You can detect different notes clearly yet they blend so beautifully as if dancing in harmony. Marvelous combination that can be worn any time of year.
What I LOVE about this is it feels like it becomes a part of me, I don’t feel I am wearing a fragrance. The best!
omaks – :
I recently got this perfume, om me it is powdery, elegant and melancholic. At first I can feel the hyacinth and only it ( which i love btw ), but at a later stage comes out a sweet bouquet, which brings me thoughts of lonelyness and longing, like a forgotten love story covered by the dust of time..
This scent is just beautiful and sad, very sad, not sexy at all. As for the name – it goes very well with the aroma, this perfume makes me blue …
However on me it stays about 6 hours, which is good. And yes as was written in the other reviews it reminds of L’ heure bleue..
priori – :
I just took this out of my (well populated) fragrance cupboard again. Grand amour was bought in a time that was not so nice for me, so I must have put it away. Amazing how perfumes really evoke emotions in you. Now two and a half years later (and me much happier, happily married and mum of a beautiful baby boy), I took it out and sprayed it on my skin. Wow, this is the best example how fragrances mix well with your body chemistry! The first sniff reveals something balmy and powdery, but gentle and soft. After a few minutes, I can smell fresh flowers – honeysuckle and hyacinth come out well, then more layered the lily. I have to admit that I can rarely distinguish the many layers in a perfume, often getting the synthetic smell overall. But Annick