Aqua Allegoria Flora Cherrysia by Guerlain bottle
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Aqua Allegoria Flora Cherrysia

3.7/5 · 1,255 votes Feminine 2019
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Longevity2.6/5
Sillage2.5/5
Day100
Night7
Summer100
Spring95
Fall13
Winter10
Our take

Aqua Allegoria Flora Cherrysia opens like a glass of sparkling watermelon lemonade, the Calabrian bergamot adding a crisp, citrusy fizz before the cherry blossom arrives. That floral note is exactly what it sounds like, a pale pink petal floating on a stream of sugared pear and a whisper of rose. Thierry Wasser keeps things light and deliberately transparent, and the dry down settles into a soft violet powder dusted over clean white musk and a faint woody skeleton. The overall image is a watercolor wash, lovely when first applied, but one that quickly fades into a ghost of itself.

This is a fragrance that feels unabashedly mainstream, neither synthetic nor natural so much as perfectly pleasant and forgettable. The accords read like a checklist of crowd pleasers: aquatic, fruity, ozonic, fresh. It wears like a spritz of cool spring air, pretty and weightless. But the numbers do not lie. With longevity scraping the bottom at 2.61 and sillage barely registering a 2.49, you are essentially paying for a twenty minute daydream. Who should wear it? Someone who wants a delicate, guilt free refresher for a warm morning at the farmer’s market or a lazy afternoon by the pool. Who should skip it? Anyone who expects a fragrance to last through a lunch meeting or leave a trace in a room. It is a cherry blossom that blooms and then blows away, beautiful for a moment, then nothing at all.

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