It always seems wrong to me, like limes and chocolate together. So it’s a darned shame that I find so little pleasure in Shalimar. I am a huge fan of Guerlain, probably more so than any other house, if I were forced to choose. Shalimar’s a spicy-vanillic oriental (Luca Turin gives it five stars – the maximum – and calls it the “reference oriental”.) Here’s a possibly apocryphal story – Jacques Guerlain was fooling around with some vanillin and either accidentally or deliberately dumped it in with some Jicky – et voilà, a bergamot-citrus-vanilla sillage monster was born. Shalimar appears on the front cover of Michael Edwards’ divine Perfume Legends between a bottle of No. 5 that’s been around for so long and in such abundance that even folks who have zero interest in perfume might be able to recognize it – both its distinctive scent and its bottle, which must have graced a million overheated boudoir dressing tables at this point. Shalimar’s one of those classics like Chanel No. If fifty random people on the street were asked to name a Guerlain scent, assuming they could come up with one I think it’d be Shalimar. Of all the classic Guerlains, Shalimar must be the best-known.
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