Review of Guet Apens by aad de gids

this is a fabulous perfume. I remember buying the above pictured Blue Lantern Flacon and that it was fabulously priced (yet in comparison with the two times I acquired the La Prairie Luxe Caviar Face Cream 50mL for first, 550 guilders, then, 550 €, I wasn't easily flummoxed.). I still have a residu in that beautiful Blue Flacon and here, on my desk, a small perfume-Vaporisateur for Guerlain-perfumes. it is an Exhillarating, Flowering and Enbalming (Embaumement), Salving the Heart, perfume. Luca Turin, whom I despise, apparently rightly said: "Guet Apins is a study in Amber". and that could so Accurately be assessed. to my surprise, (now Cartier's) parfumeuse Mathilde Laurent concipiated this perfume. and I love her work (Cartier Baiser Voler L'Essence and Oud & Rose perfumes). intoxicating and bewitching fumes encircle my head. this is easily a 'meta-perfume', a Talisman and Historical Reference like Chanel No5 & No19 & Coco. (I am a Chanel-person.) but Guerlain made other legendary perfumes: I have the extraits of Vol de Nuit and Mitsouko, further L'Instant, Nahéma, Mahora, L'Heure Bleue, [Les Orientalistes] (by Thierry Wasser) Santal Royal, Shalimar. and all, share common denominators. I would say the Vanilla, the Spices, the Legendary Flowers, indeed the virtuosely and eclectically treated Ambers. but these facets are all a Highlight in so Sparkling and yet Riverial Calm (the Nile) a Perfume. thousands micro-undulations pearlizing around my facial window. it is nothing short of spectacular. (if I have still more energy I will add encore some Verbose and Lexicological Jewels to Herald and Upshine this wonder of a perfume !) initially smelling the Peach and Vanilla, Amber and Powdery Florals Violet, Iris, Orris Root, the Roses & Jasmine, Cinnamon & Sandelwood are micro-pulverized into one smooth Accord. we remember the Tuberose (wholly embedded), Musk and the Oakmoss. to have a Cinematic, Dramatic, Majestic Riverial Image with Leisure- Junglist References. it is soft and forms an Écru, Greige-Pourpre Duvet of Falling and Catching, Wavering and Dripping Nanospheres of an Elsewhere.