Guerlain Imagine was originally launched in 2022 and then relaunched in 2024 (this is the 2024 version). Created by Thierry Wasser, it has notes of orange blossom, benzoin and sandalwood. Guerlain Imagine (2024) is an EDP, eau de parfum.
From the brand - "The richness of noble flowers, the enveloping warmth of woods… With Imagine Guerlain, Thierry Wasser, the House’s Master Perfumer, has distilled the fragrant quintessence of Guerlain’s imaginary world to compose the exclusive eau de parfum that will be the scent of the Holiday season and beyond. The orange blossom note carries all the way to the stars a trail whose luminous softness contrasts with its magical intensity, blending precious sandalwood with delicious benzoin resin."
Fragrantica - "The scent is absolutely gorgeous! I was blown away when I first smelled it! Orange blossom is very obvious to my nose and I can also get vanilla and benzoin."
Fragrantica - "It is sweet orange blossom honey, fresh from a farmer's market, which gently evolves into a resinous soapy dry down. It is a classic feminine vintage fragrance profile, and a very beautiful one. This is what I imagine Belle from Beauty and the Beast smells like."
Fragrantica - "It's a beautiful scent that is more of a resiny evolution of LPBJdMV, no ultra sweet vanilla or almond finish of that one. On me it opens with a smooth orange fruit/floral top that morphs into a lovely creamy sandalwood, (I guess javanol) resin scent. It's gorgeous and one I'll wear more than my Le Plus Beau Jour. Smooth is the operative word here."
Fragrantica - "A sunny, honeyed, orangey-orange blossom centric amber. It does evoke some similar "modern Guerlain orange blossom marshmallows" (namely Plus Beau Jour...), but it doesn't have the super sugary ethyl maltol dose that PBJDMV does. It rests upon a sweet, resinous, woody drydown of various sandalwood aromachemicals. I feel as if I can smell the piercing, creamy, oily smell of Javanol in particular at the base. Not a bad thing, but it is a very persistent and distinctive scent, so I have to be in the mood for it! I haven't smelled the 190 Ans Absolu (nor the original 190 Ans EDP), but based on descriptions of it, it sounds as if it smooths out my least favorite aspects of this one."
