Geranium Bourbon (2005)
by Miller Harris

Early one morning in Harrods; after a night of too much champagne, I made myself a gift of this luscious and heady fragrance. When I open this bottle now at home I feel a damp and woodsy world open around me. Transporting.

3rd November, 2009.

I'm with Taolady. Lovely scented geranium, mostly, but with an anchoring sweetieness. I know I love a fragrance when I want to chew my arm off from how good it makes me feel. It would be five stars, but my husband is not impressed. Damn. OK, and I wish there was a little more booziness, too, while we're at it.

9th May, 2009.

I almost wrote this one off as too floral for me, and, indeed, it lacks any woody or ambery base. However, it is bang-on geranium, very heady and pleasingly floral, with that lovely minty rose fragrance of the real substance. I give it high marks for a soliflore. Not girly, more fresh than flowery, very uplifting.

10th January, 2009.

Opens with strong green geranium, a touch of booze, and then becomes a cloying rose. The kind of rose grandma wears because her sense of smell is so very weak...yuk.

6th December, 2008.

Yummy. I get a blast of geranium right from the garden. It quiets down to a green floral for me. There is rose, but garden rose, not 'perfume' rose. It goes on a calm, happy journey through green florals with a touch of very subtle wood. It is a centering fragrance in my experience. I have also begun mixing it with other fragrances. I've tried it with Rosine's Roseberry and with DelRae's Bois de Paradis. It heightens all of Roseberry's greenness and somehow gives the DelRae a more opulent quality. I enjoy Geranium Bourbon because it is a floral without being flowery. Give it a try.

13rd April, 2008.

Notes (according to Luckyscent): Cassis berries, lemon geranium, turkish rose.

This is a very interesing one on me, as I get a quick blast of lemony floral that is probably geranium, but it's gone so fast I have trouble defining it, and then the lemony quality stays (very nice), and I am hanging out with an extremely solid though friendly smelling rose. There are more spicy dark notes hinting around the edges of the fragrance, giving me hope for a re-appearance of the geranium with more as the drydown proceeds. Ah! There's a tiny little boozy note!

The drydown is worth the wait - a clear and watery geranium note full of pepper does indeed make an appearance and the overall effect is a smooth, rain drenched spicy floral with dark earth and hint of booze.

Geranium Bourbon is a VERY fun one for warmer weather, though I'm still on the fence about whether I need this one in my full-time rotation. I still want more geranium!

6th April, 2008.