Guerlain
Shalimar
Oriental · 1925 · Jacques Guerlain
Longevity
Moderate
Sillage
Moderate
Occasion
Smart Casual / Social
Seasonality
All Year
Bergamot opens bright before a smoky, leathery vanilla and tonka take over, iris lending powder. Deep and legendary, it moves from crisp to a warm ambered dusk.
Taste Profile
The Anchor
The Dry Warmth
Warm enough to be felt. Dry enough to mean it.
There is warmth here but nothing soft about it. It arrives without apology and stays without asking. Substance over comfort, every time.
See your own Taste Map →How Shalimar smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Shalimar reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory, and is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure.
Shalimar reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 95th percentile for warmth across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Shalimar sits mid-range on projection, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle. That is 14th percentile for projection across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Shalimar is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure. That is 7th percentile for risk across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Shalimar sits mid-range on texture, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle. That is 21st percentile for texture across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Shalimar carries sweetness without letting it define the scent. That is 62nd percentile for sweetness across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Projection, risk and texture describe how a fragrance behaves in a room and on skin. Where wear reports are thin, those scores rest near the middle by design, so a mid-range reading here is a statement about the evidence as much as about the scent. Warmth and sweetness are derived from composition and do not carry that caveat.
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