I wanted to like Nahema so badly, on paper it was a dead cert that I would. After searching it out for a long while I finally found and purchased a bottle.

In it's favour I would say it is interesting, it evolves over time, and has different angles...but I didn't like any of them! For me there is a cloying sickly smell like antibiotic syrup for kids (the peach I guess) and there is a pungent, acrid floor polish type smell (the rose)...and I get unpleasant alternating gusts of each. I've tried hard to find the beauty in it - but feel like I've been cruelly tricked.

For references fragrances that I do like and wear: Mitsouko, Boucheron, Chanel No19. Coco Chanel

For me this is another dissapointing Guerlain fragrance. I've tried quite a few over the last few months and my veridict is always the same; very nice but not amazing.

Very beautiful but too strong, borderline cloying and dated.

I bought a sample of the EDP from The Perfumed Court after reading the review from Now Smell This about a year ago, and again more recently. When I finally put a tiny drop on my thumb, it was magic. At first there was nothing but a musty chemical smell, then a rose unfolded before my eyes. I almost cried. Once it's rested, the rose fades to a light powdery scent on my skin, but I'm hoping for a longer rose scent with further experiments. Beautiful

Silky rose, for evening gowns and/or vintage lingerie.

This review is for the parfum version. Nahema feels luxurious. Deep velvety rose, a little juicy at first, and sometimes my skin pulls a bit of spice (cinnamon or cardamom) in the first 10 minutes (though nothing like Lyric or OJ Ta’if). Pure rose, in that it hasn’t been mixed with wine or musks or anything gourmand. But it’s not dewy-fresh either, or at least not for long. Nahema has a diva feel. No sharp edges. Refined.

I don’t get the Guerlain base in Nahema, but it has an unmistakeably classic, big perfume house feel to it. Big sillage, tenacious. I’ll never be without it, but I need other rose scents too.

Venus floating on a cloud.The rose/peach combination is lush, generous, opulent, but with a sense of humor...like a happy baby playing suds of soap or wide-eyed girl innocently batting her eyelashes. And yet in spite of this caricature-like femininity, Nahema manages to be complex, alluring, erotic. I can see the Sharazadesque quality that inspired the fragrance: the rose continually unfolds, always promising an end yet never quite taking you there and you hold your breath waiting to see what happens next. Absolutely stunning fragrance and an added bonus is that when you wear it, chances are, you are the only one in your town wearing it!

I love rose scents, but this was cloying and overly sweet to me...a high-pitched rose-extreme. It's also suffocatingly strong and long lasting; I spritzed it on my wrist and on a card, and it just lasted for ages on both!

Nahema turns you into a rose and lasts all day, like a rose, it unfolds revealing more depth, tone and scent. It's so lovely :-) Could be my favourite guerlain, although I adore Jicky and L'Heure Bleue as well.

I picked up a bottle of the EDP in the gold bottle when in Paris last year and I have only just got around to using it.

Wish I had have opened it sooner - this is a gorgeous floral fruity scent on me with a heavy note of rose but I can still smell the peach, vanilla and lily of the valley.

I have a lot of perfumes and I mean a lot but this is one I will reach for again and again.

Oooh, smells like roses and pretzels. I kind of like it. Interesting. Not sure how often I'd reach for this out of my other bottles because it's not necessarily "me"(out of Guerlains L'Heure Bleue is the most "me"), but it does challenge my nose, in a good way. I wouldn't mind owning a bottle someday.