I tried Chamade & Jardins de Bagatelle earlier this week and I like them!
Any fans here? What are your feelings when wearing them?


Val

I really like Chamade,infact I have the parfum in it. This was the fragrance which made me realize I could wear aldehydic fragrances. A little woody and powdery on me.

Unfortunately not a fan of Jardins,too sweet floral for me.

Chamade is very beautiful . . . reminds me some of Parfum d'Hermes, rouge. Here are the notes, to Chamade: Floral Semi-Oriental . . . greens, galbanum, bergamot, hyacinth, aldehydes . . . rose, jasmine, lilac, clove . . . vanilla, amber, benzoin, sandalwood, vetiver . . .

Jardins de Bagatelle, reminds me some of Rive Gauche . . . not as good . . . I like JdB, but not enough really to recommend it . . . prefer many other fragrances, in its category.

Wow, how perfumes are perceived differently ! :) Chamade is a beautiful floral on me, but I don't smell any aldehydes. (I have to retry!) And Jardins de Bagatelles is more fruity, it makes me think of Amarige. (I have only tested the eau de toilette) I own Rive Gauche and to my nose they are completely different. Rive Gauche has aldehydes, roses and vetiver, les Jardins floral-fruity.

:)

Val

Chamade is one of my favorite Guerlains! In addition to the notes Armanis mentionned, I believe there is a black currant flower note. I love the EDP.


I only have a smalll bottle of the Jardin and rarely where it, I only know it as an EDT

I LOVE Chamade, but I don't really care for JdB.

To me, Chamade smelled very similar to Nahema in terms of its rosiness. I don't mean to say I disliked it because I LOVE Nahema but I just could not get over the similarity.

Jardins de Bagatelle smells like a wonderful, sunny flower garden with lots of white flowers. I really like it.

I love Jardins de Bagatelle. I have a decant of it in edp and a mini edt. I would love to buy a big bottle of the edp. It's very nice. However, I can't wear Chamade, too aldehydic for me.

Many perfumes use aldehydes even when not listed. It depends on the amount and type. They are the distinguishing characteristic in some perfumes like Chanel#5, First, Arpege, L'Aiment, and many others, even when not apparent since they often appear as other notes like peach, fruit, etc.

Chamade has some aldehydes but the predominant and distinguishing note is galbanum which provides the fresh greenness that runs through all the notes from top to base. A beautiful perfume, one of my all time favourites, especially the parfum.

I love Chamade. Cannot wear JdB...I assume it is all the white flowers which I generally do not do well with.

Chamade is very nice.

I have one of the old Guerlain sioaps in a plastic container in Jardins fragrance, it smells beautiful.

I used to love Chamade, but I can't wear it anymore. There is something about the aldehydes and galbanum and black currant note, that I just couldn't wear. It also reminded me of Madame Rochas, quite a bit. I loved that one once, but just like Chamade, it was too cool and aloof of an aldehyde, for me.
Jardins de Bagatelle is beautiful. It's a multilayered floral bouquet, with an emphasis on white flowers. I can see a few similarities to Rive Gauche, but overall they are from different fragrance families; RG doesn't contain the patchouli and cedar that JdB does, and the moss overtakes the base note, combining with the bergamot in the top, making it a chypre. JdB does not have moss in the base; it has bergamot in the top and similar florals in the middle, except for the geranium in RG, but its base contains cedar, vetiver, patchouli and musk- no moss.

DH gave me Chamade for Xmas. We both love it. Very beautiful, classy perfume. JdB--I dunno. I should go back and sample it again. It didn't rock my world or anything.

'Aura . . . I've never thought of Rive Gauche, as a chypre . . . to me, it's floral aldehyde: Aldehydes, bergamot, greens, peach .. . magnolia, jasmine, gardenia, geranium, iris, ylang-ylang, rose, lily of the valley . . . Mysore sandalwood, Haitian vetiver, tonka bean, musk, moss, amber

Jardins de Bagatelle . . . Violet, aldehydes, lemon, bergamot . . . Orange blossom, tuberose, magnolia, gardenia, rose, jasmine, ylang-ylang, carnation, pepper, nutmeg, cinnamon, berry pepper . . . vetiver, oakmoss, sandalwood, labdanum, amber, vanilla, patchoili, tonka bean

[color="#333333 size=4"][/color]

I have a tiny parfum of Chamade. It's pretty - kind of a sweet warm greenish deep floral. I don't wear it much, but I "respect" it.

Jardins de Bagatelle - I had a bottle once but swapped it. It was too strong/sweet of a white floral for me. Maybe the tuberose or gardenia in it was too strong?

Armanis, I know Rive Gauche is classified as a floral-aldehyde, but I can't get over the oakmoss + bergamot combo in it, the "definition" of chypre. It just smells that way to me. Many chypres such as Bandit, Mitsouko, Miss Balmain, etc also have a hefty dose of aldehydes in the top. Guess that is the classic fragrance way.
Jan Moran, Osmoz.com, and Perfumeworld.net do not list moss as an ingredient in JdB, neither does the Guerlain website:

http://www.perfumemart.com/cgi/perfume/sca...se=527/se=Women

http://www.osmoz.com/encyclo/marques/parfu...ARFUM&LANGUE=en

http://www.guerlain.com/index.asp?page=gbasp/parfum/&logo=1

Like Bitter Grace, I received Chamade from my DH, Christmas 2004. It is strikingly similar to Parfum d'Hermes, and I wear them interchangeably and with equal happiness. JdBs, is admirable - satiny, rich, soignee. It is one I wear occasionally like visiting a museum. It isn't actually the kind of perfume I wear - but it is recognizably an excellent perfume of its kind.

Love Ghamade but Jardins is too floral and too metallic for my taste. I have only tried the EDT in Jardins, is this why I don't like?

I love Chamade although I haven't worn it for awhile.

Jardins de Bagatelle is too sweet and flowery for my taste.

Love Chamade. I have the parfum too. Don't like JdB.

Well Guerlain is new for me! I didn't care about, until this week I decided to test Chamade and JdB ( I don't like Shalimar, nor l'Heure bleue but I love the Aqua allegoria range which is completely different). I bought yesterday Mahora. I'll create a new topic for this one.

Thank you for your comments.


Val

Love Chamade madly, but I've never tried JdB. I'll have to see if I can find some to try, it sounds like it might be nice for spring.