Elixir Charnel Chypre Fatal Guerlain for women

"Les Elixirs Charnels were created to evoke the desires of a women who loves to play the game of seduction."

The Femme Fatale:
Underneath her cool refined exterior, a passionate fire burns. A woman to love but never truly know, she always has the upper hand with those who dare to try to own her. The intense aura of this fatal fruity chypre haunts, as it presses and caresses with hieratic rose to which patchouli brings its spicy, woody overtones. Vanilla and white peach sensually soften the harmony that leaves an indelible trail.

I think that maybe was a mistake when they created this fragrance. I imagine that someone heard Chypre Banal instead of Chypre Fatal, and then they produced it. Chypre Fatal is your standard modern chypre fragrance, and it does achieve every single point that other more affordable chypres does, like shiseido zen and guccy by gucci. It starts fruity, then it`s dominated by a sweet, almost camphorated, patchouli, supported by a luminous musky base similar to the one found in narciso rodriguez. I think that Guerlain fails taking the modern chypre trend and adding a proper twist, something that would make it familiar but different, better than the other modern chypres available on the market. Considering it the way it is, i think unless you`re really a Guerlain Collector you`ll need a bottle of this one. If it`s a more exclusive fruity chypre that you want, i suggest you trying Mon Parfum by M. Micallef, that for now you can find for a better price at ebay and it`s more lovely and less facelless than Chypre Fatal.

Nice Guerlain scent but still does not reach that grade of a really special perfume. This one is sickly sweet and headache inducing, though pleasant at first. Not worth the price.

I"m a fan of Guerlain's exclusives, but I do have high standards for them and am more harsh in my reviews. This is a good perfume, in the $100-$140 range, but at the price point sold I have to wonder what they were thinking.

This is a basic patchouli/rose chypre, which I'm comparing to Sublime Balkiss, Lady Vengeance and Kurkdjian's Lumiere pour femme. This is most expensive of the four, and in my opinion, hte least interesting. What I"m wanting is some 'OOH!!!', like Kurkdjian's spicy rose, Balkiss' blueberry note or Lady Vengeance' edge.

But peach and vanilla are just too safe. I"m wondering who the intended audience is for this line, because I don't think it's those who want something unique and trend-setting.

No oakmoss like a traditional chypre, but still very lovely nevertheless. I ended up with a strangely masculine herby edge that was simply wonderful, but I have to wonder where it came from, as the listed notes show no such thing. Still worth a try, definitely, but don't expect an old fashioned chypre in this. EDIT: Retried and this time I get a wonderful 1920s musky peach with green notes that unfortunately fades into an unspectacular fruity floral after a few hours. Still, nice, but maybe not at this price point

Guerlain, the legendary brand French it comes once again to reinvent a smell family that it fell in the forgetfulness of the perfumery, the traditional chypre as always was, elegant, imposing and different. Most of the aromas chypre leaves us a person's of unreachable breeze sensation, bearer of a grace and impeccable discretion, the basic notes that compose the characteristic chord they don't allow exaggerations, they are simply balanced and spectacular, patchuli and rose, that can be lustered by luminous notes of bergamot or of peach and plum, with a bottom animalic or vanilic.
In the Fatal Chypre, Maison Guerlain, behind to our noses the to re-do of notes used with so much frequency in your own classic , the peach used in Mitsouko and the lewd and sexual vanilla of your Shalimar. Fatal Chypre, the impression of refined sensuality, a woman that cares as a lady passes, lady of herself, that she never let to take for conventions, rules, she destroys those way rules to them if they turn appropriate to your desires. For that reason that feminine illustration is Fatal, she knows how to destroy and to reconstruct and it takes I get the ones that they open up your extremely elegant smell.
That creation is worthy of young women goddesses of the seduction, energetic and safe than they are and of what they want. The patchuli chords involved by peach they are fresh and gourmand, a fruit aroma ripens ready to be tasted, the final bed of rose and vanilla give to the perfume the only class of Guerlain, other very interesting point in that aroma is the floral note where the rose is picked recently smoothly humid for dew.
Classic in all the senses, without being antiquated and above any sensual and extremely powerful thing, as an excellent fixation that leaves vanila vestiges and same patchuli after a whole night.