Top 7 Reasons Why Shalimar Is A Men's Fragrance
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Welcome to me! Raffi
I wax philosophical about fragrances.
Today it's Shalimar eau de toilette by Guerlain:
It's 1925 & Guerlain drops Shalimar, unquestionably a fragrance for women...but it's 2020 & things sure have changed, especially in perfumery.
My 'isolation beard' may be long but this video is not, I don't like to waffle on about things like this.
Please enjoy my breakdown & review of this classic scent & if it pleases you to see more fragrance reviews in my (hopefully) unique style, then please do the youtube stuff of like, share, subscribe & leave a lovely comment.
I hope my future self will be kind enough to reply, because i'm always a nice person...in the future.
I have never been so entertained by a fragrance review! Love your sense of humour and now I really want to try the edt
Thanks for your kind words Djenaba 🙏
A quite enjoyable video indeed. I loved it!
Shalimar is my favorite perfume and it suits anyone who likes it.
Actually when it was created women hated it and thought it was too dark, indecent and on the male side. Then Parisian men started wearing it. Then ladies of the night were the first women who wore it, so their customers didn’t smell like a woman’s perfume and keep them from having problems at home. Very considerate and clever.
It took Guerlain a while to convince their female customers to wear it.
But yes, you are right Shalimar is for men or women.
I love your thoughts on stereotypes of masculinity and femininity, conformity, and marketing in the world of fragrances. 💗👍 I'm a man that wears scents marketed to women without shame or apology, including Shalimar EdP.
Not only am I subscribing, I'm doing so enthusiastically.
You seem like a genuinely cool person.
Thanks Alex for the kind words 🙏
There's a whole bunch of frags that my mum and aunties wore while I was growing up which i'd be doing a disservice to if I didn't wear them (any excuse will do) 😁😁
I really love Shalimar and I fell really comfortable wearing it. Definitely one of the best fragrances in my collection!
You are so damn right :) And: I adore your sense of humour!
Let me tell you something now I have been wearing this on and off since the 1970s and I actually now spray the EDP in my bath water as it’s a rather strong scent and believe you me it smells magnificent over your entire body when you bathing it
True. Fragrances are genderless, we can all wear what we like, its just marketing
100% agree
In this day and age the distinction 'sweet' and 'not 'sweet' would be most fitting
As a woman, I adore Shalimar. But I do have to get through that poopy baby diaper stage. That stage....It almost makes me feel sick to my stomach sometimes. But the dry down is just absolutely amazing. Powdery Vanilla incense heaven.
That drydown is superb! I spray on clothes and revisit the day after. I recently added Habit Rouge to my collection, which I will refer to as 'the men's Shalimar', prepping for a video 😁
I enjoyed this quirky review
I made it here! Thanks for the link, Raffi! Timestamp 4:22 : In other words, it's Pat Benatar singing Love Is a Battlefield with her heel on your throat.
🤣🤣 Now that's a visual!!
@@RaffiDiranBassclef Interesting you discussed The Ape That Understood The Universe in the other video. Speaking of visuals, I'm not sure if you're familiar with Kirby Ferguson's Everything Is A Remix viral video essay series here on UA-cam that started 10 years ago, but here's the most recent version: ua-cam.com/video/X9RYuvPCQUA/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared ("Everything is a Remix (Complete Updated 2023 Edition)"').
@@JanetVJohnson Definitely on my watch list for tomorrow evening. I have heard of this but never watched it. Also just remembered I wrote something similar in my diary in 1997
@@JanetVJohnson that was really excellent!! I'm making my kids watch it now 😆
I usually prefered female fragrances. I love flowers, vainilla, ambar... And male fragrances are always spiced or leathered, serious hard and boring. Also male bottles are always squared and sad, serious, boring... Female packagings are always fantasious and funny.
As a woman, I think I like it so much because it's a more masculine fragrance... People tell me smells like men or old lady from the bottle. However when I wear it, people always compliment me on the warm, sexy and powerful smell. I would call this a men's perfume simply because it agrees well with many men but only with a certain amount of women
I howled laughing at this, incredible stuff sir!
Thank you so much 🙏
I have Shalimar edp and edt and Shalimar Initial. I love them all and I use the edp as a base for some perfumes that I don't get on so well with on their own (I'm looking at you, La vie est belle). I'm going to try it with Mon Guerlain...... See if it makes that beauty last a little longer.
I hear you on the la vie est belle, i think i got diabetes from just smelling it 🤣🤣
This was so funny And true! I love Shalimar edt..it's like you spray it and should stay away from the general population for at least 30 minutes and then..heaven. That is how I feel about Mugler's Angel.
lol, there's a few frags in my collection that are in the same category of 'spray at least 30 minutes b4 you leave home'. This is giving me a video idea 🤣🤣
@@RaffiDiranBassclef I’ll stay tuned..new subscriber:)
I have the EDP in my colección and 😍. Great day ❤️
Love your humor and review! New sub! 😊
Thank you so much 🙏
Excellent video! I'm a huge Guerlain fan thanks to trying Shalimar in extrait concentration. Have you tried L'heure Bleue, Jicky, Vol de Nuit, or Mitsouko?
Thanks Jonathan, yes, i've tried them all except for L'Heure Bleue. Guerlain is an incredible rabbit hole to wander into 🤣🤣
I love to wear it, nice memories of 30 years ago. If the EdP is more fitting to 20 years your elder it fits to my age, so your beard makes you far older than you are. Personally to me it does not have any past climacterium reputation, just the opposit - personal story. So many females wear gent parfumes, eastern houses label most fragrances as unisex now. Shalimar is as well not sweet, not flowery but more a little bit animalic, very versatile and unique. It has many Guerlain flankers, but not a single dupe, that I know to have been discussed here. Why? Is it no big seller, nor a discussion anymore?
I recently tested out Chanel's new one called Le Lion & it smells very very similar to Shalimar, but to me they dried down different
@@RaffiDiranBassclef First: The after drydown is what you sense 95% of the time. Second: Shalimar does not have a spectacular opening, Citrus, Bergamotte is so universally used, bit boring to me anyway. Third: A Channel smellalike can walletwise per se not be a dupe. Usually their products are even more expensive in the middle than the Guerlain ones. A Armaf or a Afnan would be. Since that does not exist it shoes me. It is not easy to recreate it. No wonder, there are so many notes in it, the longevity is enormous - to me at least. It is so unique. Btw, I like the simplicity of your set. No big batteries of stuff to show of, more a student space, very basic. Makes you more interesting - unique again.
Liked this so much! Thanks
Thanks Jacob. Glad you enjoyed it!
Your 40 years too late. I wore Shalimar and Vol de Nuit back in the 70's, still do. I only use extrait . I like Shalimar better than its older brother Jicky. Come to think of it, Liu ain't bad either. Best, mark.
You beat me to it 🤣🤣. Come to think of it, 40 years ago i probably did wear it by association of being around aunties who bathed in this stuff. Liu is also a favorite of mine.
There is just something about Guerlain fragrances, I have used Caron, Fragonard, Patou, Chanel, Corday, Coty, Lelong, D'orsay, Vigny, Houbigant (the real Houbigant) and I have always gone back to Jacque Guerlains work.
I grew up in the 80s wearing men's perfume and everyone assumed I was lesbian, I'm glad we're over that bs I still wear "mens" perfume though lol they smell better, darker and more intense, I also wear some "womens" perfume depending on my mood
That's it! Wear what you like and like what you wear. My wife wears men's fragrances only. She reckons they smell better. 😄
Wow Man 👍🏼 You are cool 😎 Thanks 🙏🏻 and cheers from Denmark 🇩🇰
Thanks René 🙏
I agree I think fragrances that are gendered are just suggestions
Love and wear Shalimar. No shame. No regrets. Fight me.
Subscribing : )
Amigo upgrade your room presentation and lighting early on, you could draw alot of people to your reviews
Yes, filming with LEDs pointed directly at my face in the bedroom seemed like a good idea at the time...but it was naaaaht 🤣🤣
🤌🏻 alas atleast you didn't spend thousands to realise you didn't wanna make vids anymore 😆 cheers
Do you still like your Shalimar?
Hey Renn, yes I do, but it's definitely not an everyday scent. I feel like I need to be in a flamboyant mood to reach for it. It's definitely not a fragrance to purchase without testing it first.
Were there really 7 reasons ?
Maybe 😝 haha. I hope you enjoyed it though
LOL
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When I think of Shalimar 🤮🤮🤮
Try the EDP. ... I do prefer it. over the EDT. Great day !!