Description
My Insolence is a new version of Insloence, launched in September 2007. It is fruiter and softer and brighter then Insolence. My Insolence is created for a modern woman, spontaneous and ready to reveal the essence of her inner self, and embrace her femininity. This adorable fragrance is charming, playful and uplifting, captured in a charming pink bottle.
It opens with a whole bunch of sweet raspberry notes, with a lemon-cake-like citrusy trace, and then continues in a direction opposite than its predecessor Insolence. The almond blossom notes, intensive, sweet and pure jasmine, patchouli, Tonka beans and powdery vanilla, give this fragrance a soft impression.
My Insolence was created by Christophe Raynaud and Sylvaine Delacourte.
Mr Ronnie – :
On me, at first it smells like a dryer sheet. After a few minutes it smells really nice and sweet. After about 20 minutes it smells like a dryer sheet again.
Illipsmislemy – :
well clearly I am sweet fragrances lover.
and this one is 100% sweet but it has sweet magic makes it extraordinary and unique ..
so sweet and soo different .
has very nice lasting power
over all it’s 8/10 fragrance .
Евгений 777 – :
I loved this scent. It was so joyful and romantic in an innocent way. I wish they would bring this back. I like the scent of the original insolence, but I enjoyed this composition more. It’s a beautiful take on the gourmand trend of its time that was more spring and airy. I love bodied scents or unusual scents, the insolence line is both bodied and unusual. Guerlain is great at making scents that stand out and that’s why I love this house. Not all of their fragrances are my cup of tea of course, but I can appreciate everything they’ve developed.
JearnendIrref – :
Sweet teen romance in vernal Paris.
All is full of love, love is in the air, love is all around, the very first love. Sweet & tender like fresh raspberries, innocent & soft like almond blossoms, sexy like a scoop of vanilla ice cream shared by two lovers.
My Insolence is innocent, yet sexy scent, it has got something like a “Lolita effect”. Not too sweet, sticky/synthetic – maybe I´m the lucky one who can wear this perfume like a light, pale pink veil concealing my face. My Insolence, it´s my pleasure!
Ahilia2011 – :
This is the perfume that made me realize I hate almond blossom. It always smells synthetic and like plastic on me and I’ve disliked every perfume I’ve ever tried containing the note, but I didn’t put it together until I tried this one. I love all the other notes, especially raspberry, vanilla, and tonka combined, and I like Insolence EDT and EDP (even though both have become too strong and sweet for me as I’ve gotten older), but My Insolence always had a burning plastic/cheap hairspray note on me. It’s not a terrible perfume, I just realize now that almond blossom is not my friend. It is kind of immature/young smelling though, I don’t know if I agree that this is good for dates or as a bridal perfume at all. It would make a nice gourmand perfume gift for teens though.
lit992JeomiWogkig – :
This is Insolence with more depth. It is strong, bright and sugary like Insolence but with raspberries instead of violets and a powdery gourmand edge of vanilla, almond, and tonka bean. I am so upset this has been discontinued, it’s such a gorgeous fragrance! Total mood lifter. Sweet without being cloying or juvenile but still fun and youthful in it’s sparkling intensity.
My Insolence is an EDT that somehow performs better than Insolence EDP. It projects mightily and lasts forever. This is the only fragrance I can spritz on my wrists and smell strongly until the next morning! Everything else fades away in a couple hours. Just love this pink beauty!
Drag7891on – :
Beautiful floral-sweet & somewhat fresh fragrance.
Happy, optimistic, sweet, fresh and still classy.
It has the Guerlain sofisticated touch, a beautiful scent given by the raspberries and something that reminds me of candy going on… my guess is that the almond blossom combined with the vainilla are doing this to the fragrance. There is a hint of sugar hidden somewhere.
I do not like super sweet scents, but this one is well balanced so you can still find the floral vibe.
Pachouli and tonka beean are giving the depth to the fragrance, saving it from becoming just another pretty teen swet scent.
Suitable for autum, spring and summer. I would wear something else during winter, but hey.. you do you.
Appropriate for everyday use at the office, for a romantic date, a walk on the beach during the night with your special someone..
Not sure if this would last well for something like a wedding day, though the scent would fit nicely on a bride.
In summary, it is the fragrance of a sofisticated young lady with a big smile on her face.
The bottle is a masterpiece, a work of art woth to be admired. Love it !
die3el – :
Very unique, sweet powdery perfume. It has same sparkle like original, but thankfully it doesn’t have violets.
Sifesmisy – :
I love this, it’s sweet without being cloying, but it’s also powdery in a lovely way.
Very elegant, for day or night.
w7ww – :
This is one of my favourites from Guerlain,Unique scent, very good silage. for this one, i love, i love, i love.
Orescesyday – :
Well, I misjudged this one big time. I have it for over 3 years and I bought it because original Insolence was such a success for me. I love powdery and sweet perfumes and Insilence is epitome of sweet and powdery. I will not say how gorgeous Insolence is it is okey? My mistake was to try My Insolence after original. It’s different in many ways and I thought it was lucking powder and felt harsh to me. I thought there are no violets. Trust me there are! Even if not listed. You don’t smell them right away because raspberry takes center stage in the beginning. Violets came much later and they are a whisper. My Insolence is not so insolent just an opposite! It is the softest, creamiest quite little number! Do not listen to others about when to wear your perfume. This one on my skin plays the best in wormer weather! In cold it fel flat and was cold and harsh. It’s very potent so 2 sprays to torso (away from face) and you will smel divine all day. The most beautiful trail ever! It is a masterpiece. Hard to believe it’s EDT how long lasting this is. This is my summer counterpart for Insolence. It has freshness and crispness to it. You feel so clean in it.
own08 – :
soft but strong! easy to wearing but stylish with good feedback at the same dignity..
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مای اینسولنس بدون شک از دلپذیر ترین و راحت پوش ترین عطرهای شیک زنانه در بستر وانیلی ملایم و شیرین کنترل شده ست که حال و هوایی مدرن شده و بی حاشیه تر از اینسولنس اصلی رو با خودش همراه داره اما اصلا وارد حریم اون نمیشه هرچند که حس پودری و هاله یی از روایح آرایشی زنانه رو به شکلی ممتاز و نرم درونش میشه یافت و برخلاف بسیاری از کارهای زنانه نت آزاردهنده یی رو در هیچ مرحله از نت ها از ابتدا تا انتها درش نمی بینید و خیلی ملایم اما با صلابت با پنبه سر میبره. فکر میکنم تولید این کار متوقف شده اما هنوز خیلی دست نیافتنی نشده به هرحال از نظر من کاریست مقبول و دوست داشتنی
پخش بوی بسیار خوب و ماندگاری بسیار مناسب، پربازخورد و همه پسند در عین حال شیک و موقر
anappyVar – :
i like this version of insolence much better maybe because i love sweet scents in general. I smell raspberry lemon custard and vanilla, with a touch of powdery floral that can be sensed in the original Insolence but this a better version of that one in my opinion
slim_dj – :
This is a beautiful little fragrance!!! I didn’t like it when I was testing it out. I wasn’t allowing it to settle as I was too busy testing out another fragrance.
At first this smell very much like an alcoholic beverage for about 15-20 but then it changes to a nice little raspberry/almond cookie on my skin. I like it very much and I’m happy with my purchase. I see a backup bottle in the future.
viktor505 – :
This is love, freedom and youth in a bottle. A romantic trip to Paris and a weekend in Venice….
This is the perfume of a beutiful, enchanting, young lady who knows her values.
One of my most gorgeous perfumes.
This is a very important present for me.
EMUREROITLECE – :
To me this smells similar to the much more expensive Le Plus Beau Jour de Ma Vie by Guerlain. I haven’t smelled them side by side but My Insolence felt the same when I wore it. I actually like My Insolence better because the bright raspberry cuts through the heavy almond sweetness while Le Plus Beau Jour de Ma Vie is more linear with the sweetness. I find this very feminine and adorable. Raspberry and almond powder. Any of the powerful violet left from the Insolence EDT or EDP has been so subdued it’s barely a newborn kitten meow. This is about fluffy, cosy, yummy almond dessert with raspberry. I really like it and think it’s a shame it’s been discontinued. I wore it to the movies and kept catching whiffs of myself through out the film. It made me feel calm and happy. However, my husband couldn’t smell my perfume unless his nose was two inches from me so the projection must not be great, on me at least. I had used two sprays. When we got home I sprayed myself four times and he began to sneeze, lol, so there must be a happy medium of about three sprays. I could see myself wearing this often in the Spring.
nowlancelay – :
It has come to my attention that most people on Fragrantica hate long reviews, so here is a quick & dirty one for My Insolence:
A long lasting, multi-layered perfume with lots of citrus & raspberry, almond-blossom/apple-blosson/raspberry-blossom sweet/musky florals, tonka bean, and sweet patchouli. Most of the notes last a long time, and the projection/sillage are phenomenal.
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Okay, so for the rest of you I have to tell you what happened the first time I wore this perfume. I really like Insolence EDP, and I blind-ordered My Insolence just because I liked the EDP so much (and because a tester costs about $25.)
My Insolence, it’s supposed to be the lighter, brighter, fresher, daytime version of Insolence, right? To quote Charlie Murphy–Wrong. WRONG. WROONGGGG. The is a “Habitual Line Stepper” perfume. Without doing a trial run, like I do with most perfumes, I applied 3 full sprays before work, got dressed, and put on my jacket. On the way to work I had to open a car window to compete with the fumes, they were choking me. Once I arrived at work I really realized that this stuff was way too strong. I left a trail wherever I went. I was conscious of my perfume preceding me into the room. My coworkers politely but perceptively stayed about 6 feet away from me at all times. I tried to scrub it away to little avail. When I went downstairs at the end of my shift my jacket had fumigated the entire break room. When I drove home my car still contained a My Insolence cloud. A few days later, while wearing Mitsouko, I put said jacket on again and it reeked of My Insolence, and totally covered up any trace of demure little Mitsouko. When I took my jacket off, traces of My Insolence had rubbed off on my skin so for the rest of the day I was essentially wearing it.
So, this is possibly the loudest, most tenacious, craziest projection “I will invade every corner of your life” perfume ever created. I just read this book called “The Heart Goes Last” by Margaret Atwood and I felt My Insolence embodied the quasi-character Jasmine–she doesn’t exactly exist, but if she did, she would wear this–she is a fantastical teased & hairsprayed brunette, bubble gum snapping, motor bike riding, purple lipstick wearing, heavy metal listening, foul mouthed, sex crazed, badass–this perfume is the embodiment of that attitude.
And I learned an important lesson–always, always take your perfume for a trial run before you take it out in public. You just don’t’ know what it’s going to do. Oh, and even after all that, I really love this perfume:)
dred 2010 – :
Jedi, you may be partially anosmic to My Insolence, since most people (including me) find it long lasting. This happens, perhaps some note doesn’t agree with you.
berserk – :
It starts out very lovely. Soft and sweet; a little fruity. My husband said it smelled like my powder… it does. It smells like lipstick and pressed powder. Like fruity make up.
I adore it. I sprayed it on my clothes just to inhale it more.
And then 10 minutes later, it’s gone. Maybe because it’s an EDT and not an EDP, but the longevity is not worth the price. I layered it over lotion and other staying power tricks, but to no avail. It just kisses you with a gorgeous and comforting scent, and then leaves, making you want to chase it and smell it for hours.
I suppose I’ll just stick to the remarkable orginal Insolence EDP.
dprof – :
This fragrance has been discontinued, but it is still being sold here and there at a heavily discounted price, so grab a bargain while you can! It is a lighter and less head-spinning version of Insolence. As other reviewers have mentioned, although it is not listed in the notes, the powdery violet is still present here; the Guerlinade is also unmistakably part of the composition. Compared to another raspberry-infused Guerlain flanker – LPRN Couture – the raspberry is even more prominent in My Insolence, but well blended with other notes. While this scent is light and pretty enough to be worn by young girls, it is by no means a plain sugary water, akin to many celebrity fragrances, but a proper perfume.
П.А.В. – :
I received this beautiful juice in a swap. It had been on my want list for ages due to the notes listed. Though violets aren’t listed on Fragrantica it is most distinguishable as a flanker of the Insolence line – powdery violets – with the added touch of raspberry. I sprayed it on around 8am and it lasted well after midnight with medium silage. It is an intimate scent. Sexy, yet innocent…
It reminds me of powdered sugar dusted violet truffles. The truffle itself tastes solely of powdered violets, rather than the white chocolate the violet flavor has been infused into. The creamy truffle melts in the mouth to reveal lusciously, sweet raspberry crème filling with an almond nut at its center. Scrumptious!
Update: I sprayed two sprays on my cardigan before going to work in the morning. Later that evening after I changed into my pjs I hung up said cardigan. Two days later I could still get whiffs of My Insolence on the sweater!
geepis – :
My Undoing
Gifted: Spring 2009
My Signature: Spring-Summer 2011
This was the intoxicating poison I wore along with Nivea deodorant that made my lover want to devour me whole.
It was sensual. It was seductive. It was inevitably me.
During that steamy, torrid affair and heart wrenching pain filled afterward, I never went back to my quarter filled bottle nor dare inhale it, for the passionate plundering memories would eat me alive.
Forbidden Fruit.
SiutoTG – :
It is such a summer perfume I just discovered! I had it for about 2 years. I liked it but believed reviews and only tried it in the cold months. What a mistake. Original Insolence is one of my favorite, of course it’s has everything I want in perfume sweet and powedery. It is much more than that of course. I have both EDT and EDP. My Insolence is fresher and fruitier version but it needs heat to uncover it’s beauty. It’s 95 F in New York. It’s hot and muggy. I was out for hours. No heat or sweat would do anything to the sent except make it beautiful. It just bloomed. It actually turned fresher and a little powdery. It is very complex. And it keeps going like energizer bunny like it has its own source of adding sprays. It does not go bad like some perfumes. Longevity is enormous like original it just keeps going. Defenetly for hot summer. It’s easy to guess it is related to the Insolence. I have dry colder skin and always am forced to carry perfumed with me to add or they disappear. This one can be confidently left at home. It is gorgeous!
andriy1976 – :
I like this so much better in the summer. In the winter it is too powdery and not as interesting. Wearing it this summer it is warm and creamy, fruity, and long lasting. It feels light and summery.
vit_vitych – :
God, for some reason I can’t get enough of this lately. I keep thinking about wearing something else, and then I think back to yesterday (and the day before and the day before) and how much I enjoyed the scent of My Insolence and the way it changed throughout the day until, by evening, it had become incredibly friendly and cozy.
I came to My Insolence by way of Insolence, my signature scent since its release in 2006. I love everything about Insolence; its brashness, its unapologetic feminine accords. I like that it’s a bit cheeky, and not afraid to offend. I wrote off My Insolence for years until, finding it had been discontinued, I bought a bottle for posterity’s sake and out of my sheer obsession with Insolence. I used it once, was pleasantly surprised but not blown away, and set it on my perfume tray with Insolence and the rest of her flankers.
Last week I came back to My Insolence and found a sparkling juicy raspberry highlighted by the creamiest vanilla and a kind of toasty marzipan accord. The raspberry begins to fade as the day wears on, and the marzipan blooms, becoming cozy and sweet, like warmed milk. I swear I get violet from this as it wears on, though I don’t see it in the notes.
Insolence is still my favorite; I like that she can be a bit difficult, but My Insolence is perfect for days when I want to smell pretty. It’s pleasant, easy to wear, and really well-formulated. Not overly sugary-sweet, no harsh edges. I was wrong to write this fragrance off.
JedAmonemes – :
My sweetheart
nicvoz – :
Perfumers Sylvaine Delacourte and Christophe Raynaud
Do you remember how much people kvetched about Insolence when it was released? It was The Death of Guerlain. There had been similar raining-cats-and-dogs wailing about a few other post-LVMH Guerlains: Champs Elysées, l’Instant, the entire Aqua Allegoria line. (Guerlain has in fact survived long enough to hear similar complaints about Idylle, Shalimar Parfum Initial and La Petite Robe Noire.) Guerlain responded by creating two flankers to serve as concession speeches to the Insolence campaign. The two took completely different tacks.
My Insolence came first. It acquiesced. It apologized for Insolence’s garishness. It tacitly confessed and asked forgiveness. Edges were smoothed. The fruit got sweeter. The nail polish note was restrained. The tonka/vanillic base was warmer and more comfortable.
Insolence Eau de Parfum was the defiant, ‘you haven’t seen the last of me!’ version. It kept the hairspray, exaggerated the candied violet, grew monstrously large. It called the critics out for being dainty.
My heart is with Insolence Eau de Parfum for its fuck-you tone, but My Insolence isn’t bad. It might have been built for the buyer who thought Insolence required too much effort, but it was also an alternative for the Britney Spears Fantasy wearer who was looking to get classy with some brand affiliation.
Guerlain aimed for greater accessibility. My Insolence is less sharp than the original. There’s less hairspray, less violet, more berry. It’s fluffier, lighter in every sense. A sweet gourmand lemon note levels out the pitchiness of the original. Think lemon mousse or limoncello instead of Aquanet and you’ll catch the difference between the topnotes of Insolence and My Insolence.
Insolence was intended to be a big seller as the Calvin Klein style name indicates. My Insolence pursued the same goal, in this case by aiming to be more of a crowd pleaser. Just as my expectations of a wide-release action movie are different than what I hope for in a ‘serious’ documentary, my expectation for My Insolence isn’t stratospheric. The fruity-floral is the perfume equivalent of the romantic comedy and My Insolence is a solid if programatic offering within a compromised genre.
Летио – :
Hmm. This is the only Insolence I have tried, and “gourmand floral” describes it well enough, I suppose. I thought it would be lighter and sweeter than it actually is, I would barely call this gourmand. I feel it comes across as a bit… grapey? in the opening, in the drydown I feel like there is a tiny bit of a laundry detergent vibe going on but in a good way. It also somehow reminds me of LPRN, or rather, the Ma Premiere Robe version that is without liquorice (perhaps even evokes the LPRN Couture version if I remember what it smelled like correctly). I really do like it, but I wouldn’t get a full bottle.
rtor – :
I find this one a younger,sweeter more wearable sister of insolence edp
I was surprised when I saw there is no violet amonge notes listed here,because there is a dominant powdery violet present here,just like edp and edt version,but there is also raspberry and a touch of almond in a delicious vanilla base which makes the whole blend rounder,softer and likable for me
Can be used all around the year with very good longevity and sillage..this is a delicious powdered raspberry,almond cake
Also lovely bottle,but I wished the bittle,itself to be pink not just the liquid inside it
Unineeesomy – :
Wow I’m so pleasantly surprised by this. This is the first Insolence I’ve tried based off suggestions and reviews. I jumped on a blind buy and wasn’t disappointed in the least!
I mostly just get a well blended composition, but I do get a lot of synthetic raspberry, though it’s not bad at all. I also get vanilla in there but it’s mixed pretty well I have a hard time picking it out. It’s softly sweet and I definitely get lots of powder, I think that’s what makes the fragrance more grown up and classy.
I find it to be a very pretty, pink and fluffy sort of scent. There’s no sharpness, it’s quite warm and comforting like a shawl wrapped around you, though I think it can be overdone if oversprayed. I sort of feel like I’m rolling around with hundreds of super soft, pink baby bunny rabbits; it’s super cute.
newsman5 – :
This is my baby 🙂 very feminine, every time I wear it,get a lot of compliments. This frag has everything what I expect of perfum, really good longetivity and that “twist” 🙂
supermotya – :
Tested on a sunny November day of 60*F in central Texas (moderate gusts of wind).
Applied to my pulse points for my regular weekend shopping & social outing.
Longevity: about 4 hours (I was not heavy handed in my application).
Sillage: Radiated to within arms reach for a couple of hours and then settled into a skin scent
Impression: Feminine and warmly happy. This scent reminded me of when I was a child and got to meet the Prima Ballerina of the Nutcracker before the show. She gave me a sincere and strong hug, and her skin smelled warm & softly devine.
Bottle design: 8 out of 10. Simple, classy, understated elegant design.
On first spray it is radiates a jammy sweet “play doh” type smell. Within minutes this settles to the lemon cakes drizzled with raspberry glaze scent that so many have identified. For me, this a preferably fall scent for the time of light sweaters and scarves.
After 10 minutes I was won over. The scent settles as a radiating skin scent that will whisper delight to anyone stepping into your personal space. It becomes this light skin musk with a touch of vanilla powdery warmth (sweet without being sugary or artificial). The patchoulli is not a major player thank goodness.
This would be the perfect gift for a new mother or young lady who has matured into a strong graceful feminine presence. I gave it to one of my friends for her college graduation (she use to blast Brittany Spears scents while In school) and this is her office scent. I can see it appealing to women ages 21-45.
Overall, I would say that this would be an awesome gift with a wide range of appropriate occasions. Give this scent plenty of time to settle as you get ready to go about your day.
Definitely a cooler weather treasure.
FrolliMolli – :
Powdery, sweet, and young and modern. This fragrance definitely lasts all day on me and gets a lot of compliments. Girlish and fun! I’d say it’s a good day time date fragrance. Yet another beautiful fragrance from Guerlain!
grrregori – :
While I “like” Insolence (it’s almost too powdery and therefore old lady/not sweet enough for me) but as I wear it, it grows on me. My arm test was bad, but my chest/clothing wear was better, and I decided that I like Insolence. I def apply it to my skin/chest before clothing because it wears sweeter/lighter that way.
So I got My Insolence and was really looking forward to it. (Blind buys, good deals on ebay)
I like it, but I can’t decide if I just like, or really like. It’s fresher, crisper, less powdery, and it’s like a fizzy champagne, fruity punch/sweet tarts candy, with florals. It’s def better than Insolence. It lasted on my shirt to the next morning, in which it smelled all powdery like Insolence. But to me- “MY” is much more wearable. It’s feminine and girlie but not too young. It’s fresher and lighter, fruitier and less heavy. I def enjoy MY more than the original EDT.
It also has many levels and does change throughout, which I enjoy.
Winchester – :
This is a sweet and pleasant scent, if Princess Peach wore a perfume, this would be it!(I guess the girly pink, elegant and sweetness is what makes me think of her?) My Insolence is very tart and can probably make you hungry for sweets. I smell lemon frosting and raspberry flavored cake with a rich raspberry compote drizzled on the dessert along with Raspberry Jam in the middle of the layers while your surrounded with powdery white flowers sitting in vases while you’re savoring your your dessert on a sunny day 🙂 good job Guerlain! This is a keeper for gourmand fans
rita – :
My Insolence smells like powdery Pink marshmallows with raspberry drizzle. My boyfriend described it as “fresh”… It makes me feel hungry and the drydown has a fizzy quality. Good stuff. Pretty candy. It’s kind of disgusting and obnoxious also (mega sweet tart loud), and yet I’m bizarrely hooked on it.
Thanks to the lovely member who enabled me to sample this.
Eta: I totally understand what people are referring to when they mention a masculine element here. It isn’t a deal breaker necessarily, but there is a sharp “freshness” to the musk in the drydown which makes this not a safe blind buy, where it would have been otherwise. Definitely test first. Were it not for that sharpness, this fragrance would play out faithfully to how the notes read.
suvalgis – :
I do really smell violets in this perfume, not as strong and loud as the original which I love too but they are there all the same for me.This is much fruitier than the original and gentler to wear when you don’t feel like wearing the power house original.It’s Insolence’s little sister to me!
Kyrduell – :
This also reminds me of violets, powder, and cherry blossoms. Although the notes that are hit are very similar to Insolence EDT and EDP, it is quite different. The notes hit my nose at different times, and they seem more distinct and separate from each other whereas the original and the EDP all hit my nose at the same time. I love this as I have loved all the Insolences, but the EDT is still my favorite!
Xeroxixayj – :
*Second Review*
This is actually quite addicting! It’s like that piece of chocolate you can’t resist having every now and again. I feel yummy and girly when I wear it and yet it’s also not childish. Very good.
ale35434831 – :
This is quite a loud perfume. When I wear it I feel like it’s saying to me “NOTICE ME! LOOK I AM WEARING PERFUME” because of the shrieky violets. I find violets insufferable in perfume, headache inducing.
That being said, there is enough soft vanilla and almond blossom for me to like it. Sweet but sophisticated, it is a nice scent though I wouldn’t wear it to work as it’s not THAT sophisticated. I’d wear it when I’m feeling girly and cheeky.
Corsicasz – :
It’s very different from the original Insolence. It’s fresher and more suitable for the warmer months. It could probably get overwhelming after a prolonged wear. It’s unisex in my opinion – I sense a distinctive masculine note.
Lovely fragrance, playful and positive – patchouli always does that to a perfume. Easily likable everyday one which makes it a good choice for a gift.
hosevushetau38644 – :
My Dad bought this for me years ago and i must say i HATED it. It’s way too sharp for me. I couldn’t wear it but since it was a gift i kept it and now it seems it smells a little better still can’t wear though. But it’s so energetic and young. overall it doesn’t suit me but it’s not that bad.
Chaki_07 – :
This opens with the slightest shot of citrus mixed with a moderate amount of sweet raspberry. Changing to add the almond, vanilla and soft Jasmine. Changes from a lighter fragrance to a bit more strong. I get very slight patchouli but it’s minimal. No mistaking it’s Guerlain after you get past the opening. Just a slight powdery feel. But in the dry down it’s not noticeable. It has classically blended notes that flow so well together. Has some similarities to Insolance parfum. But other notes that differ greatly.
Giving a great reason to own both. I notice this one is not powdery and has the jasmine. The original is more powdery. The jasmine in this one makes it more appealing to me. It’s a fresh crisp fruity floral. It has moderate silage. Longevity is really good. A classic well done fragrance. It’s very feminine, not girly……Guerlain.
kanlev2 – :
Insolence and I don’t get on very well and this version was not able to change our fate together.
My Insolence is a raspberry bomb plus powdery almond blossoms on me. I get a slight whiff of violets too…
I don’t know what else to say, this one leaves me so confused.
Guerlain quality is there, but lest I say my preferences are Samsara and Mitsouko.
vik1945 – :
Like it’s said above, My Insolence opens with lots and lots of raspberry notes! Sweet and fruity with indeed a lemon-cake-like citrusy note. The citrus note however is really light and gone in a flash. Then comes in almond blossom, vanilla and tonka, making it even more sweet and a tad bit powdery. Patchouli is barely perceptible and jasmin I don’t detect at all.
It is a really nice and fluffy gourmand. It smells soft, but don’t underestimate it’s sillage as it’s definitely not a shy fragrance.
Longevity is also impressive and it lasts for days on clothes.
A little mistake in Fragrantica’s writing above: My Insolence does not come in a charming pink bottle. It comes in a clear bottle with charming pink liquid inside 🙂
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trubnikov_1 – :
Sugary and tart with some fruity/vanilla yumminess in their. It’s fresh and sweet and really delicious. I was expecting something more powdery and the citrusy zing and floral freshness in there really surprised (and pleased me).
It’s like meeting a lady you know is named Myrtle but have never met before, and you assume she’s going to be sweet and 75 or so and basically an adorable little old lady, but BAM nope it’s a 25 year old hottie, with a wit as sharp as a tack, and you’re totally charmed and completely shocked
SteevyZerarce – :
I like this a lot!
Smells a lot like Insolence but slightly more wearable, and weaker sillage.
Honestly, I don’t know why violet isn’t listed as a note here – to me it’s the same violet-raspberry-musk-guerlinade mix, more or less, as the original Insolence, just a tad less strong.
defenderlog – :
Oh so sweet! I don’t get powdery as some mention. Raspberry and more raspberry, and some citrus, but raspberry. It lasts many hours on me just like that. I also seem to react, with a scratchy throat, as if I’m allergic to it. Other perfumes haven’t done this yet, so maybe the almond blossom?? I’m so disappointed; maybe it was the weather (cool 60’s and cloudy). Oh, and this has to be applied very lightly; it is strong.
kuznetsov – :
Yes, this definitely has the same powdery violets as other Insolences. Like others I get a LOT of raspberry in the opening, plus lovely almond, vanilla, and soft sweet jasmine.
Luckily on me the jasmine in this (as of yet!) has NOT turned Alien-esque, because that powdery powerful version of jasmine is what I so dislike about Alien (can’t wear it, it’s a scrubber on me).
Beautiful, feminine, powdery tart-sweet vanilla almond jasmine. A scent I didn’t expect to like but find overall very wearable and fem. Great sillage on me too! I expect compliments will be pouring in over this one.
ETA: The ‘violet’ note as I perceive it KEEPS getting stronger, booo. The vanilla/jasmine/almond are beginning to be drowned out by it as it dries down more. Damn, those were the parts I liked most. Isn’t is funny how our skin amps the notes we DON’T like? =/
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bulldoc – :
I agree with previous reviwer – the/one of the top notes is undoubtedly violets, although it’s not even listed!
roma2.60 – :
I swear I smell violets in this one as well as in the original Insolence. Softer violets, with rasberries and ot