Guet Apens Guerlain for women

The liquid in my sample vial (whose provenance was ultimately a decanter, by way of a fellow fragrance traveler) of Guerlain ATTRAPE COEUR smells suspiciously familiar to the dregs in the bottom of my now nearly empty bottle of YSL YVRESSE, which is so old that it actually bears the original name of that perfume, CHAMPAGNE.

Thick, somewhat gunky stewed peaches and parched vetiver? Hmmm... this seems very similar to the result which I might expect to derive from attempting a reduction of MITSOUKO over the stove. The flowers are really all stuck together in an amorphous blob in this composition. Eventually the drydown smells more like MITSOUKO than YVRESSE, but I never detect a single isolable flower petal anywhere: rose, violet, and iris are nowhere here to be sniffed. I do believe that my sample may simply be old.

I never had a chance to try the 1999 launch of "this" perfume, GUET-APENS, but I am curious as to why it should have been totally renamed if in fact there was no significant reformulation for the 2005 launch of ATTRAPE COEUR. I also wonder why two extra perfumers should be given credit for a perfume originally composed by Mathilde Laurent, if in fact the two creations are really one and the same.

Guet-Apen IS Attrape Coeur! My friend worked for Guerlain and they just remarketed it and changed the name.

This is probably my favorite perfume! I adore it. I do NOT get Mitsouko from this and I have the vintage Mitsouko and the parfum.
Anyway.........truly wonderful...........I think of this much more of an oriental also.
LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!! I save it for special!! I'd hate to think I'd run out! It's expensive......BUT

As with many of my perfumes, I ordered this untried, and after decanting to a spray bottle and spraying on my wrist I gasped and said aloud, "Oh no, that was a waste of money!" The tuberose hit me in the face like a ton of bricks and I'm not a huge tuberose fan, but I am an experienced perfume fan and decided to give it some time and airing out before starting to scrub.

I am soooo glad I did. It immediately bagan calming on my skin. the tuberose subsided and the jasmine (one of my fave florals) and violet rose to the surface and I began to relax. I never got much rose, but that's alright. The peach wasn't that much present for me either, but when the drydown began in earnest I was in heaven. It was that vanilla, ambery, slightly musk Guerlain base I have come to call home with just the right amount of the floral balance hanging in to soften it and give it lightness and it's own character.

I don't see the resemblance to Mitsouko in Guet Apens. Mitsouko has a harshness on me that never goes away and is one of the only Guerlains I don't like. Guet Apens is what I wanted Mitsoukp to be. A sweet, yet soft oriental with great staying power and decent sillage.

When I sampled this a year ago I was looking for a reason not to buy another Guerlain, but wanted to circle back to it now.

Guet Apens is a purple fragrance with a lot of ‘glass’. Upon the opening I want to compare it to Apres L’ondee, but this is not a wet, springtime fragrance. It is a windy, late fall fragrance; something you would wear as you walked through the open prairie as the first brisk breezes of winter were whistling down your neck.

The mood of this fragrance is introspective to me; something I would wear if I needed to be alone and contemplate something. A solitary wind-swept note.

This time of year I place it ahead of L’heure Bleue, and behind Apres L’ondee. I wouldn’t compare it to Mitsouko at all, as it is a dry, floral oriental and not a fat, luscious chypre.

Certainly one of the better fragrances to ever come from Guerlain.

Never heard, never saw.....Exist in official Guerlain site??? I cannot find Guet Apens.

That's true, Guet-Apens has something very similar to Mitsouko. It is old-fashioned in some way like tessture said but that's why I love it so much!
Mitsouko is somehow sharp and quite heavy, "dusty" fragrance compared to Guet-Apens. Guet-Apens is softer, fruitier and really creamy.
It makes me feel as if I was walking alone down the dusty countryside road on a very hot summer day, dust tickles my nose, the air is hot and dry but at the same time wind brings the smell of juicy ripe peaches from the garden which I cannot see. I love how Guet-Apens makes me feel! It is lovable, romantic fragrance with the edge to it.
Guet-Apens has the classic Guerlain base and a lovely sillage. Simply adorable!

Not as different as Mitsouko, nor as interesting, even though Mitsouko doesn't quite work on me. Sadly, Guet Apens/Attrape Coer is basically a boring, old fashioned heavy floral on my skin. I wish it was more like what Mals86 has reviewed.

Guet-Apens was renamed and rereleased (without obvious reformulation) in 2003 as Attrape-Coeur.

Notes include:
Top: Rose, jasmine, tuberose, violet
Heart: peach
Base: amber, musk, vanilla

Someone has described Attrape-Coeur (to give it its current name) as a "creamy Mitsouko." I'm not sure that's very clear, but it is certainly related to Mitsouko, with its peachy heart. I cannot wear Mitsouko; it smells of waxed floors and bitter herbs on me. I prefer this one, with its lovely violet and rich, textured rose. The ambery vanilla drydown is rich as brandy. A real asset in the Guerlain line, and a must-try if you like the classic Guerlains. Gorgeous.

I do not understand the chypre designation. This one is, to my nose, heavily ambery and more oriental than chypre.