Guerlain
Shalimar (Vintage Extrait)
Oriental · 1925 · Jacques Guerlain
Longevity
Moderate
Sillage
Moderate
Occasion
Office/Daily
Seasonality
Spring
Bergamot flares bright before a vast, resinous vanilla unfolds over incense, leather and civet. Deep and room-filling, it is the archetype of ambered opulence, smoky and animal-warm beneath the sweetness.
Taste Profile
The Romantic
The Open Sweet
What you see is what you get. Simply sweet.
Straightforward and consistent, exactly where you want it. Treat yourself. Who doesn't love a bit of sweetness?
See your own Taste Map →How Shalimar (Vintage Extrait) smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Shalimar (Vintage Extrait) carries across a room and announces itself, and reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory.
Shalimar (Vintage Extrait) reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 75th percentile for warmth across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Shalimar (Vintage Extrait) carries across a room and announces itself. That is among the highest in the catalogue for projection across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Shalimar (Vintage Extrait) sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available. That is 68th percentile for risk across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Shalimar (Vintage Extrait) 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 35th percentile for texture across 5,322 scored fragrances.
Shalimar (Vintage Extrait) is openly sweet, in gourmand territory. That is 87th 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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