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Cloultyagorgo – :
This is a sweet confection on me in the opening—bright orange blossom meets sweet candied almonds and vanilla.
The dry down is all cozy white musk and this is an intimate scent–not a loud one. It’s beautiful, and the bottle is gorgeous. A great addition to my collection.
imohaxi – :
This is an orange blossom and vanilla scent, with a faint powdery almond note. It’s a feminine “fresh and sweet” sort of thing.
I do not find it very similar to Love by Kilian, Love is a dense gourmand floral marshmallow, this is one is more of a sour orange blossom and vanillin.
I do not dislike it. I think it’s pleasant and elegant, but you can find something similar in, say, Nina Ricci Les Gourmandises range at a fraction of a price and with better projection.
tattoo3 – :
Vanillin. That’s really all I’m getting on my skin less than an hour after spraying. It was more interesting at first sniff, but it very quickly turned into plain vanilla.
Jack60 – :
Yummy, delicate, Jordan Almonds with light aromatic and florals. It seems slightly honeyed and ever so slightly fruity but not an identifiable fruit just enough to round out the airy sweetness. It’s not aggressively sweet or far projecting but nicely rounded and present, you smell delicate wafts and it’s not thin or weak bodied. I would not use this as an every day scent but one for special days and for lift me ups.
I don’t use the separate screw on bulb atomizer which sucks but apply on skin directly from mouth of bottle and it makes a big difference. This perfume needs to be concentrated in a smaller area on the pulse points to blossom to the fullest. The atomizer spreads out the thinnest layers so the potency is weakened greatly and the expression was so weak the first time I used it so I took it off and just use the cap that the bottle came with. It’s good to find these kind of delicate, refined, but still yummy and uplifting scents nowadays when everything is so heavy handed and too sweet. Love wish they sold it in a larger bottle.
tdnjl84 – :
This is a soft classic feminine scent. It’s a fun loving sophisticated beauty. It’s light, airy, and a bit aquatic on me. It has a delicate sweetness that is not over whelming at all. All the notes blend and balance one another out perfectly. Longevity is moderate as is the sillage.
rotig – :
Absolutely divine! Magical and addictive. I smell mostly the candied almond, rose, musk, and vanilla. It is a full-bodied scent, but never heavy or suffocating. Longevity is about 5 hours before I feel the need to touch up. It projects to about arm’s length.
One of the lovliest things I’ve ever put my nose to. I think it can make even an ordinary day more beautiful.
Andryhha – :
I’ve just bought this from Harrods in London for my wedding day perfume. Not only because of the perfect name but because the juice inside is beautiful. Stunning sugared almonds with the distinctive Guerlain touch. A far cry from the bubblegum/marshmallow of Love by Kilian that I see it compared to so often.
This perfume just oozes elegance with a touch of fun and the bottle is very pretty too! It’s now in a safe place waiting for my special day.
Xeroxoehnk – :
I do love and covet many Guerlain perfumes and this is an expensive habit, addiction, whatever. This one has been on my radar for a little while now. Just recently was able to sniff at a many Guerlains in NYC. This one ” best day of my life” is a beauty made for I imagine ones wedding day. Very fitting but I love it everyday. Sweet floral almonds goodness vanilla a little patch . It’s all in the blending, a very special one for sure. I Love!
denes200 – :
doesn’t smell like love by kilian, the only note they both have in commun in orange blossom, but this one is more oowdery, almond like one, not thas sugary sweet like love, who reminds of marshmallows or candy…
AwaibeClaibre – :
Ahh the smell of Guerlain! This is so delicious and beautiful. How can anyone not adore this? I feel so girly when I wear this scent and I believe it would suit any sweet lady. I am a big fan of Dior’s Hypnotic Poison which is a luxurious almond scent, as well as Profumum Roma’s Confetto but they are both slightly too bitter. This scent however is a sweet sugared almond scent. So romantic, so inviting and so very seductive. How can anyone resist the lady wearing this beautiful scent? Thank you Guerlain for this truly wonderful perfume.
جميل جدا! أنا أحبها كثيرا!!!!
al9618 – :
Let me tell you the presentation is indeed charming. The perfume is 99% same as By Killian Love, just a little sweeter….. the juice is not orange color like Love, It’s an angelic pink. Lasting power is excellent but silage is softer than Love. It doesn’t smell like a statement perfume, you will not turn heads when wearing it… Yet there is something strangely addictive in it, I cannot stop sniffing myself. I also noticed a lot or males smiling and trying to spark a conversation with me today, the first time I’ve worn it.
In simple words it smells like orange blossoms mixed with white chocolate, lots of powder and candied almonds. The drydown is similar to Charnel Gourmand Coquin from the same house.
It is very pricey but beautiful . Many people say it isn’t worth the money, can you really put a price on sheer elegance, beauty and comfort ? I personally love it and don’t regret buying it… I’ll just have to be stingy with that gorgeous sprayer to make it last as long as possible !
oksanka-masjanka – :
Smells like bubble gum. Good longevity but way too overpriced for the cost of the raw materials.
dimon170585 – :
Its a very pretty famine perfume… sweet and warm really elegant and unique …one of my fav…of 2015 unique delicate…
I would say its creamy ..powdery…but it has some fresh…I cant say when it comes from but he added it to kill the powder an vanilla…
the thing I don’t like about it is price…its a very expensive in Sacks…way to expensive . . . .
RockInpurce – :
Beautiful and sweet. Picked this up on my recent trip to Paris at the Guerlain flagship store. The longevity is quite amazing with this fragrance. I’d describe it as sweet and almondy. Along the same vein as My Insolence, but sweeter.
Mypppz – :
Reminds me of buttercream frosting off a store-bought birthday cake, complete with the chemical aftertaste. Very gourmand but sickly sweet and artificial smelling. I’ve never had candied almonds (popular wedding favors) before but I can see the inspiration reflected in this perfume. Personally I wouldn’t want to smell like this on my wedding day, I’d choose a classic like Shalimar or L’Heure Bleue or Vol de Nuit. I don’t know why Guerlain made this an overpriced LE exclusive frag when it could easily be a mainstream hit. Anyway the drydown is tolerable because the chemical sweetness dies down a bit. All in all I don’t dislike it, but this is probably my least favorite Guerlain thus far. It smells nearly identical to By Kilian Love, but Love is more caramel-y. Iris Ganache has a similar candy-like level of sweetness.
Li_Kuy – :
Le Plus Beau Jour de Ma Vie by Guerlain comes to me in stages – possibly one of the more dramatic perfumes in term of progression from some of the later Guerlain repertoire.
Weddings are on Guerlain’s mind, and perhaps the brilliant purity of white too. This is a ‘white’ scent – pale, pure, and sweet, layered like an expensive bridal dress. The sugared almonds are pale in colour, and this is reflected in the scent of this fragrance. Soft additions, like the orange blossom surrounded in clean musk is like the soft pastel makeup-sculpted cheekbones of the picturesque bride. It is fleshy without being too much. It is sweet and tenderly, but not cloying in any way. Back to the idea of white, Guerlain’s annual Muguet this year (2015) is housed in stark white porcelain, and Guerlain’s flanker L’Homme Ideal Cologne is framed in a solid white square with its advertisement featuring a central groom running from a mass of other brides and grooms all wearing white. What’s on Guerlain’s mind?
Find firstly this blinding sweetness, sweet and ethereal like lipstick and powders. This lipstick dances around being nude and fleshy pink, and eventually settles at a warmer hue of Rose and musks. This recedes into the back and makes way for a bitter green Angelica note, almost approaching a galbanum like bitterness warmed with pink peppercorn. More thematic however, find a sugared almond note unlike any other Guerlain. Sweet and driving, the almond pushes the composition into sweet territory but manages to never reveal its true gourmand reality. Again, on a thematic level, with appreciation for a yesteryear set of bridal values and traditions, orange blossom is eventually present as the main note here. The language of flowers dictate that orange blossom is for weddings and is tradition for it to be present during the ceremony. Queen Victoria wore a wreath of orange blossoms on her wedding day, symbolising fruitfulness and eternal love. This imparts a smoothness around the edges of the sugared almonds, tempered pleasantly with incense.
One will find that Le Plus Beau Jour de Ma Vie has an uncanny resemblance to many other Guerlain “niche-line” works. The Angelica of course found in Angelique Noire – with its real bitter opening and deeply aromatic green pungency. The base of Le Plus Beau Jour de Ma Vie by Guerlain too resembles strongly the musky, albeit musty characteristics of Cuir Beluga with that illusionary leather/suede note. All is needed now is a rich topping of the attractive orange blossom, counterbalanced with the saccharine hit of sugared almonds; Tonka Imperiale perhaps. Conclude with a dashing of rose, patchouli, and incense – generally strong notes found in oriental works – and Le Plus Beau Jour de Ma Vie is the result.
The great thing about this Eau de Parfum however is that it seems to heat up as it progresses. Whilst the Angelica note is a fixed component, as it opens with the sweet powders it inevitably fades into a more pleasant state. The almonds too, are constant, yet stretch themselves out to a sophisticated level gourmands seldom achieve or even find realisable. So for analytical purposes this is stage three of this fragrance’s progression, and it pushes out an awesome red rose elegantly dipped in sugar syrup to make it glisten some more. The patchouli and incense pair nicely and are dependable in this mix, alloying down any seemingly erratic sweet notes and cloying features. Treat this fragrance with less sternness, and a patisserie note can be found. Is this another thematic addition? Sugared almonds and orange blossom, the incense hinting at perhaps a church or the notion of purity, and now the sweet and very delicious note of frosted cake made from almond meal?
In the end, this fragrance is more complex than one might expect. Freshness is delivered to what is otherwise a saccharine overload, weighed firmly with a transparent touch. Where is it at fault? It moves, delicately, but is otherwise a perfume build largely around a constant sweetness and a floral musk accord that is persistent. Nevertheless, a very good release from Guerlain with a nouveu appeal that may already appear familiar to Guerlainophiles that enjoy the L’art et la Matière line.
калифирния – :
So when I read about this fragrance, I simply had to try it. So I ordered a sample and I have to admit I really like it. Not enough to pay the asking price, but it is really an enjoyable scent. Definitely a special occasion type of fragrance.
The first thing that hit me was the sweetness. I do not usually enjoy super sweet fragrances (which for me this is), but it does smell absolutely divine. I get all kinds of vanilla, caramel, citrus, floral, and dare I say some kind of syrupy cotton candy.
After long periods of wear I did get somewhat of a headache from the sweetness, but the scent smelled so delicious that I couldn’t bear to scrub it off prematurely.
arx895InsuffBooni – :
I smelled it for the first time yesterday. I am a Guerlaine fan. I own Mon Precieux Nectar, Angelique Noir and Cuir Beluga. I guess that’s why I like this one. Must be the almonds and the sweetness. After reading your reviews here, I think maybe will hold off buying this one. It seems as though I might already have it in some form in one of the three other bottles of Guerlaine I have.
tyarek – :
After a few wears with my sample, I have come to the conclusion that this scent leaves me with quite a quandary. I really love the scent itself, but I find it difficult to justify paying the amount it retails at. If I were wealthy enough to afford this easily then I would buy it no question, but at the current retail price I just cannot justify it. But it remains on my want list in case I come into some money! Warning, this review will get long!
Onto the perfume: this is a beautiful, elegant and rather pretty scent. To me it is very softly feminine, if it were a food it would be a pale pastel mint green dish filled with soft plump marshmallows finely dusted with icing sugar, in a pink so pale as to be almost white. The perfume creates a wonderful gentle aura of around me, a soft wispy cloud of scent. Yet despite all these words I am using like soft, wispy, gentle etc this is not a weak juice, I had a 2ml dabber sample vial, and this is my 5th wear from the vial, for me this has good longevity of around 7-8 hours of projection from dabbed application and projects roughly arms length around me for the first few hours before wearing closer to the skin later. for several hours more – as a skinscent it takes me over the 12 hour mark. I imagine that sprayed on and a more generous application would yield good longevity and a little more projection.
This perfume contains definite nods to several other Guerlain exclusives such as the cool angelica of Angelique Noire, the soft marshmallowy gooey softness of le Boise Torride, and a vanilla that calls to mind Cuir Beluga. The Guerlainade is, to my noses opinion, present here and the perfume definitely feels like a member of the Guerlain family.
As for the scent itself, I get a tiny hint of clean lemon in the opening, along with angelica and pink pepper. Quickly the orange blossom joins in, a very light, bright, clean and non indolic white floral note, and soon the vanilla starts to warm up, having the faintest smoky quality to it that is so familiar to Guerlain lovers. The almond is sweet, it brings to mind the sugared almonds used as wedding favours on the tables during the reception, that come in a little mesh bag. They have the clean, soft, non medicinal almond feel here, coated with fine pastel sugar. While there is undoubtedly a sweetness to this scent it is not what I would class as gourmand, the angelica, patchouli, orange blossom etc all prevent this from wandering into candyfloss territory. The patch here is very light and just adds that hint of necessary grounding this perfume needs. The smell is fairly linear throughout, there is a definite change through the top notes and into the heart where the vanilla, patch and musks join the party for afternoon tea, but from there on in it remains fairly steady for me, just growing fainter over time. The scent is extremely similar to that of the other Guerlain released with this – Le Bouquet de Mariee – which is the parfum version. The main differences are as you’d expect the parfum is a little richer and deeper, and has increased longevity (and price tag).
So, what’s not to like? Beautiful smell, respectable projection and longevity, you’d think we were onto a winner. But for me the problem is the way Guerlain decided to go with this, making it an exclusive, high priced and hard to acquire fragrance. This is a great scent and while it does give a nod to some of its exclusive siblings, it also brings to mind some not so exclusive releases from the house – some of the lighter Shalimar flankers, there is something about it that brings L’Instant EDT to mind and there is a definite similarity between the soft powdery almonds of LPBJDMV and the ones in L’Instant Magic. And in fact the scents from the regular Guerlain line do give me better performance in terms of projection, longevity – and value for money.
I feel that this scent would have fitted well among the regular line up and would have been a success if it were marketed and sold with the other general Guerlain’s – it would stand up well amidst the L’Instants and the Insolences, the LPRNs and the Idylles, the various modern Shalimars, appealed to a younger and wider audience as well as the established Guerlain client base and I think would have been a success as it has wide appeal. It is sweet enough to satisfy the gourmand and confectionery lovers, but not so sweet as to turn off non-gourmand fans. It is gentle and pretty enough to wear casually day to day yet elegant and poised well to create a good impression in a more formal setting. It has decent longevity and sillage without being impolite or intrusive. Guerlain would have been better releasing this as a mainstream scent instead of releasing 1001 different LPRNs and Shalimar flankers. That said, it doesn’t blow me away like some scents do and I just don’t feel that this one merits the price point at which it has been placed, it isn’t groundbreaking, although it is done well and smells very lovely. But for £150 for 60ml I want more than just pleasant and nice. I want something different, something exceptional. If this were marketed and sold in line with the regular scents I would already have my bottle in my wardrobe. But for £150 I could buy something much more special from this house, such as Liu, Tonka Imperiale, a small bottle of Mitsouko Parfum – for that price I could also buy 4 bottles from the regular line up.
I think fundamentally for me, while I do enjoy this fragrance, and I find it to be well composed, pleasant and very wearable, it just doesn’t warrant the price tag IMO. That said it IS a very nice scent and definitely worth sampling should you get the chance. If this falls within your price range you will have a beautiful scent with the Guerlain feel.
Witcher – :
I am very fond of this one.
Not too sweet on me. Peppery, angelica, musk. After an hour, that slow, simmering Guerlain/vanilla scent makes itself known. Much easier for me to work thru and enjoy than a few of the very well known Guerlains.
Hoping for a lottery win so I can purchase la Plus Beau Jour and 68, while they are visiting the city. This is unlikely so I will have to be thankful and make do with the decant I was generously given, by my Guerlain angel.
Six months later and I still love this. Price is all that stops me from acquiring a fb.
askar37 – :
Nothing special,nothing unique … For me totally disappointing ,overrated and overpriced twin of Calypso`s Lea,only just provided with a weird,medicinal vibe… Must be the angelica paired with almond…
Has to scrub this off….
klojoker – :
In a few words : Guerlain it s doing their own version of Love by Killian
zagit – :
While i analyzed the evolution of this fragrance on my skin, trying to understand what does it told me, i started to speculate that this new ode to love and romance comming from the brand seems to fit on a strategy that has started on 2012 with the transformation of La Petite Robe Noire in a mainstream creation. Those are the years of the return on investment or the fruit investment harvest from a brand that had to find a way to keep its classics, history and tradition at the same time that it reinvented itself to keep its fragrances appealing to new publics and thus ensuring the financial continuity of their business. This strategy is already consolidated, the brand has become atractive and interesting again and now it’s time to explore this and not time to inovate or look further.
In this scenario, Le Plus Beau Jour de Ma Vie is clearly familiar, as it has been happening with other creations from Guerlain on the last years. I have seen critics about its smell beeing too much sweet, but compared with fragrances like Iris Ganache, Insolence EDP or even LPRN, i would say that this one has a moderate sweetness. My main critic to its smell is that it seems clearly of a mainstream appeal than an exclusive one, a fragrance that could easily have a wider distribution and a lower price.
I think its curious that the extrait version (Bouquet de La Marièe) and the EDP seems so different at the same they are strongly linked one another via the orange blossom. She is the main responsible here to give the radiant and bridal face to the composition. But if in Bouquet de La Marièe the almonds seemed to take the fragrance into a direction closer to the one in Mon Precieux Nectar, the musks and vanilla accord here, emulating the white chocolate idea, make this bridal creation like an intermediate between structures found in both Iris Ganache and Angelique Noire. Even tough, the sweetness here is submited into the luminous, happy, citrusy and sweet of the orange blossom, which is what reigns on my skin. It’s a flower impression similar to the one found in the Elie Saab creations, but with the typical gourmand accord treatment of the house.
I see here an exquisite gourmand composition, but i don’t see, in a critical way, a fragrance that seems made toward the most loyal Guerlain consumer. In those years of fruit harvest, i would say that Guerlain for me is like a relationship that has fallen into the routine, that it’s not bad but that lacks a pinch of something new and exciting. I hope that we soon have a new cicle of innovation, even small ones, or commercial exploitation of the brand’s past.
romanski – :
I fell for the “but it’s a limited edition and once we are out of stock, that’s it, they’re gone” line and blind-bought it, and this is my second day wearing this. I was hoping that some other reviewer with better sniffing and writing skills would have offered insights regarding Le Plus Beau Jour de Ma Vie EDP first, but I will share my thoughts and hope you’ll forgive my weak description skills.
1) If you get the sales pitch that I got, please be careful and don’t react out of emotion (it costs $270 USD…money that I would rather have spent on either bringing home Liu or saving up for Vol de Nuit parfum, sorry to sound negative) unless you can sample it first. Learn from my mistake!
2) This is a lush, beautiful orange blossom scent, with a prominent sweetness which I’m guessing is the “candied almond”…to me, it almost smells like white chocolate (yes MonsieurGuerlain, I agree with you). The fragrance does not shift or evolve, you get orange blossom/candied almonds for the whole day. It is a soft, dreamy cloud. People had to come right up to me and sniff, and they would say “Nice.” On my skin, I could not detect angelica nor any pink pepper…it’s possible that they are there, but I didn’t smell them. If you absolutely can’t live without orange blossom, this may be one you want to try.
3) I agree with Archivist in that this would make a great prop in bridal photos, and since there is nothing that I consider to be outstanding about this fragrance, suspect that’s why it was created…to get more brides. It would be something lovely to wear on your wedding day, yes. The bottle comes with a flat gold colored cap that screws off, and then you attach the vintage-looking bulb atomizer. I just happen to not care for that type of atomizer, and felt clumsy trying to use it. When I dab it on, I feel like I have better control with how much I want to apply.
I can’t hide my disappointment in that I feel the price asked for this creature doesn’t really justify buying it, and I was hoping for a bit more complexity. On your skin, you may get more assertive angelica and pink pepper and citrus notes; I really wish those had done so for me. I’m sitting here in an orange blossom/candied almond cloud. Not a bad place to sit, but I feel somewhat foolish for falling for this. It projects softly (meaning that I and people who come up to hug me or otherwise stand in my personal space will smell it) for about 3-4 hours, then it becomes a light, sweet skin scent, in which I sense the vanilla and musk. Since this seems to be aimed at brides, I tihnk this would be very nice for the wedding day and serve its purpose. But after the most beautiful day has passed, then what? Having said all of this, I wonder if perhaps Le Plus Beau Jour might perform better or cast more magic in warmer weather. It is still a tad cool where I live. Just a thought. I’ll play with it a bit more before I make a final decision as to whether I will keep it or not. I’m sorry to sound negative, it may be that I am too cynical in nature to really enjoy this new Guerlain. It is very, very pretty but I just think it is too expensive, for what it offers. Just my humble opinion.
Econeesoame – :
At 200€, this is priced in the mid range among the other Guerlain exclusive fragrances. I recalled Guerlain used to sell a similar looking bottle (empty) with a glass funnel at around 160€ years ago. Just adding a mere 40€ to get the gorgeous bottle with 60ml of EDP sounds like a steal in the Guerlain standard, of course for those who love the juice as well.