Reviews of Aqua Allegoria Winter Delice (2000)
by Guerlain

This is bright and shiny… morning sun rays bouncing off crystallized snow. The coniferous notes: fir, and pine are cool and invitingly clean and the whole opening sparkles with the light aromatics of cone trees. The tenor of the fragrance is light from top to bottom – even the incense is such a light, translucent note that it does not weigh Aqua Allegoria down one bit. The base’s soft wood and gingerbread note fit in very appropriately with the conifers and incense to form a delightfully smelling winter fragrance that removes itself completely from being the cliché it could easily have been.

One of the best of the Aqua Allegoria line. Completely different from all the others. In one word, magnificent.

A seasonal wonder! This is one time the note pyramid can be trusted...if you imagine (in your olfactory memory) each of the listed notes you will practically know the smell of this fragrance! It is like mikeperez23 has said ~ ...feels like Christmas in a bottle!

A wonderful melange of smells I associate with growing up through Northeast US winters.... the smell of the woods outside and then coming inside to smell a fireplace, cookies baking, and spiced cider. The initial blast of pine and spice (cinnamon and/or nutmeg to my nose) is pretty intense but mellows quickly into a ginger/pine/incense accord. The accord eventually sweetens a touch with a little vanilla, and the entire composition is comfortably musky. Perhaps it's just my association with the spices that are featured, but I could sweat I almost get a rum note reminiscent of a rum spiked cider. The only other fragrance I've smelled that is similar is Winter Woods EdP by Sonoma Scent Studio, which also captures the 'winter spice' vibe perfectly.

As mikeperez says, find this quick before the e-tailers are all out.

The quintessential Christmas fragrance - the fir, pine and spices all add up to give off a dazzling interpretation of the smells of the holidays.

I must admit that I didn't grow up near a forest. But I have Christmas trees in my home during the holidays and I know what a live tree smells like (up close): the resins, the needles, sap. Winter Delice manages to capture that.

It also gives off an almost sour incense resin effect, after a comforting gingerbread accord fades. I think this is what makes it more unisex - and is what I love. But I would not recommend it to someone looking for an incense prominent scent.

To me, Winter Delice is so much more about the wood, the spice and the overall feeling of 'Christmas in a bottle.'

Hurry up and get yourself a bottle - this stuff is discontinued.

I've been searching a long time for the "right" incense scent and FINALLY I found it. L'aP Passage d'enfer left me feeling a little cold, LV Incensi was better and yet something just didn't click, the CdG Incense were very nice and ALMOST there, but when I found this Guerlain, it all fell into place.

The Incense isn't as smokey, dark, or harsh as some of the others and the bits of sweetness (especially the gingerbread note!) give it a wonderful warmth and character. As well, in cold winter months, it also adds a bit of nostalgia for anybody who had gingerbread during the winter/Christmas holidays when growing up.

A beautiful scent, good longevity and sillage, and the 125ml bottle means that you probably will never run out (it's definitely only good for cooler weather). All in all, yet another fun and wonderful creation from Guerlain.

As a Guerlain lover, I was delighted to finally get a bottle of this winter/Christmas fragrance. As I am an incense lover a la Serge Lutens' Ambre Sultan, 10 Corso Como, and Guerlain's Bois d'Armenie, I was happy to add another incense fragrance to my collection. Rather than opening with a blast of pine as some reviewers stated, I got a soft (I mean soft) sweet gingerbread/incense with just a hint of outdoorsiness (more like the smell of a cold winter night--how they captured this, I will always wonder!). The drydown is even better and the scent lasted all day on me. It's a complex little scent, and although I don't like every frag in the Aqua Allegoria line, this is now my most favorite of the line. Lovely on a woman or a man.

Fantastic voyage, this.

Yes, it's pine needles up the nose, but I kind of like that. It seems awfully subtle to me, but I've received comments from people who smell it on me when I cannot smell it on myself. This is a nice diversion for the holiday season. For the most awesome, NATURAL fir smell evah, try the new Sandalwood from the Art of Shaving. I don't see it listed on Basenotes, yet, but it is wonderful. Many compliments on that one.