Idylle!

Everyone has a signature scent. A scent that they love to wear or a scent that they feel defines them.

For me, the three notes that make up my favourite fragrance composition are floral, green and marine notes. I started off liking Pleasures by Estee Lauder. The green floral notes of this perfume are really distinct and it has a freshness that gives a nice petal effect. For the longest time, it was my favourite perfume, until I came to France and smelled something that made me fall in love.

Idylle by Guerlain is my current obsession. I agree it is totally different from Pleasures, but it has some depth, some character that makes me want to wear it over and over again. Idylle, in my opinion, is not completely representative of its family (Chypre Floral). It opens with a soft and subtle scent of rose, that’s not really over powering like Paris by ÝSL. I usually hate fruity notes in a perfume but this has the optimum amount of litchi that makes it sweet, yet not too sickening. The floral notes blended with the musk gives the marine and petal effect that I love in a perfume and the patchouli in the end is the only thing that contributes to the chypre character.

This perfume for me is soft, sophisticated, extremely feminine and moreover romantic – four characteristics that attract the cheesy, sappy and chick flick loving girl in me!