Guerlain Shalimar Eau De Parfum Spray for Women, 3 Ounce

This delicious fragrance is a classic. It is fresh and clean and lasts forever. You don’t need much just to spray and it will last all day. It’s gorgeous. It’s classic Guerlaine great size good value for the money. Excellent. I have bought my mother this every year for her birthday since I was a kid and this is actually cheaper this year than it was when I bought it for her in high school so excellent price.

This is absolutely lovely! It reminds me of my mother so much. The scent is exactly just I remember. So beautiful! Nothing like it. You definitely don’t need much and it is Devine. So very happy 😊 ❤️

My last bottle was eau d’cologne, so this was more intense and requires a lighter touch to apply. Shalimar is a classic fragrance that I love for nostalgia. May not appeal to younger shoppers. This one bottle will probably last the rest of my life, which could be anywhere from 7 to 30 years, give or take.

I had added this item to my wishlist years ago. My adult son accessed my list and purchased the 3 oz as a Christmas gift to me. I was worried about receiving a fake. I messaged the seller who assured his vendors are good and honest. That didn’t mean much to me. I received the item. It seems authentic enough. Surprisingly it doesn’t smell like an old lady although its top note smells like spices. The bottom note is vanilla and musk. I read the EDT reviews of a major department store retailer and most were literally 1 stars. Unless we have Guerlain authenticate, we consumers will never know. As for longevity, I find it won’t last very long on certain textile clothes materials, but is long lasting when sprayed directly onto my skin. Basically, it will differ from person to person. I think this fragrance will not appeal to most under age 45.

A nice big bottle of Shalimar Perfume. A great value for the price. Nicely packaged.

My grandmother has worn this for decades. Needless to say, I love the smell, but it’s also an association thing. I’m sure plenty of people would consider a “grandma” perfume... the scent is definitely not very modern. However, you can tell it’s an incredible quality. The scent stays on all day, and doesn’t break down like other scents. Even though it smells slightly different on each person, it still seems to work for any person I’ve known to try it.I’m not able to describe scents very well. I couldn’t pick out an individual one if my life depended on it. I do know that I once saw it described as “the classic Oriental perfume,” and while I couldn’t identify a perfume’s category, I can understand the description. When I first smell it, I notice the musk (and I typically hate musky perfumes), then spices, then almost like a sweetness. When I say spices, I mean like when you smell cinnamon or something like that, and by sweet, I mean like when you smell something baking, like vanilla. I know it sounds like I’m describing a musk mixed with cinnamon buns (which, hey, if that’s your thing), but it’s not at all what it smells like, it’s almost like how it feels. Baking is really the only reference I have for scents, I don’t wear them often, and body sprays and the like usually gag me. Most perfumes either nauseate me immediately or after I’ve had them on for a few hours. This one never makes me sick. As I said, I normally hate musks, but this doesn’t seem to be like most of the ones you find in stores. Imagine a room that was done in lots of dark, jewel toned colors, with all kinds of velvets and fur and leather pieces.... but someone’s baking in the kitchen and it’s wafting through (and no, I don’t mean those canned cinnabons, I mean like if someone’s baking some Thomas Keller-level stuff with real vanilla beans and all that). Definitely a naughty but nice feel to it, but a very luxe version of it.

I love this. The sent last a long time

I'll start off by saying my review rating shouldn't be the only thing you look at with this review.I bought this for my elderly mother who is a very active, but retired late 60s woman, going on 30. For the last two years she has lived with my wife, our kids and I. She goes out a couple times a week with old friends and she had been using Emeraude perfume. She smelled my wife's Dior Addict one day and asked if she could use it. Mom loved it. So, my wife was telling me that mom had asked her about the price of Shalimar. This was a surprise for me. My late father used to buy mom a bottle of Shalimar every Christmas. He passed on over 20 years ago and to my knowledge, mom hasn't wore Shalimar since. I decided to buy her a bottle and see how it went. I did have concerns before the bottle arrived. I know how much Shalimar costs in retail stores, but even more so, as something of a cologne collector myself, I know that Guerlain has been receiving a lot of flak for their classic scents not smelling as good or lasting as long as they used to. I personally love Guerlain's Vetiver, but haven't noticed a drop in its quality.I also decided to give it to her before Christmas. I don't want to steal any precedence from her memories of my dad giving her Shalimar on Christmas and it would give her a chance to try it. Before opening it, I put the upc serial in on Guerlain's website and it said it had been produced in November 2013. Having the experience I have in cologne and a wife who used to be a Macy's perfume counter worker, I know that the years don't necessarily matter as much as one might think. Mom's initial spray brought a smile to me, my wife and mom. Shalimar is one of the most enchanting scents ever made. It really reminds me more of a Dior as it has the quiet, subtle scent instead of the loud, obnoxious one. Mom went back to her room and was getting ready to go out with her friends for dinner. She comes out 30 minutes later and the scent was gone. Now, it wasn't completely gone, but it was now only a skin-scent, meaning you had to put your nose against her arm to smell it. This is so unlike Shalimar. It's one of the greatest projection scents, but there was absolutely no projection.She went on to try it again that night and again the following day. She still likes it, but we are all confident there is damage to the bottle. My beliefs on keeping a cologne/perfume for a long period of time are simple: Spray it once every month. It releases the oxygen, chemicals from within the bottle. Because so many scents, even classic ones, are becoming more synthetic, it's even more important to spray the bottle ever once in awhile. I have no doubt this is real Shalimar as Guerlain recognizes its serial code as their own. I'm just guessing it's a normal case of grey market perfume becoming stale. This is in no way a putdown on Amazon as buying from the grey market is a common practice. This is where a bigger seller like Amazon buys up the stock of small perfume stores who go out of business. Most of the time you'll get a good performing bottle of perfume/cologne from the grey market, but other times you'll get stuck with a dud.I wish there was a way I could tell you if I recommend this or not, but I can't. If you can get a bottle of good-smelling, high-performing Shalimar for Amazon's price then you've gotten a bargain, but just be aware of the potential pitfalls as well.