Champs Elysees Eau de Toilette by Guerlain bottle
Guerlain

Champs Elysees Eau de Toilette

4.0/5 · 7,007 votes Feminine 1996
Main accords
Where to buy
Love Champs Elysees Eau de Toilette?
Save it to your favourites and discover similar scents in the Nardinum app.
Get the app

Fragrance notes

Top notes
Heart notes
Base notes
Almond Tree

Character

Longevity3.7/5
Sillage3.3/5
Day98
Night22
Spring100
Summer40
Fall33
Winter19
Our take

Champs Elysees suits a wearer who wants a bouquet, not a single note wearing thin quickly. Melon, peach and almond open sweet and a little green, cut by black currant and anise so it doesn't turn candied right away.

The heart is enormous: mimosa, lilac, lily of the valley, peony, rose, almond blossom and hibiscus all crowd in together, a genuinely old-school maximalist floral bouquet rather than a modern single-note composition. Almond keeps threading through both the top and the heart, and that repetition is what ties the whole middle section together as one bouquet.

Vanilla, almond tree, sandalwood, benzoin and cedar settle underneath and give the drydown real staying power, warm and a touch powdery by the end without losing its shape. The sillage stays in a small orbit around you, present without ever getting loud.

It leans toward spring and early fall, best worn on a bright day, not a formal evening. Almond and vanilla round out the green, sharper top with real warmth by the drydown, and that warmth is what keeps it feeling classic, never simply old-fashioned.

Smells similar

Built from the same materials — ranked by how unusual the shared notes are, not by how many.

More from Guerlain

All Guerlain →