Guerlain has introduced Pêche Mirage, a new addition to the L’Art & La Matière series.
Utterly delicious, Pêche Mirage is an ode to captivating fruity notes. A trail that sublimates the addiction of gourmand notes and the depth of the leather notes. A sensual tandem that oscillates between roundness and power.
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The avant-garde perfumer Jacques Guerlain sublimated the peach in 1919 with Mitsouko, using synthetic molecules to recreate the olfaction of the fruit. More than a hundred years later, Delphine Jelk introduces into her composition a synthetic note from chemistry to give the fruit pride of place in Pêche Mirage.
Charles Petillon’s white balloons structures can be interpreted as molecules and thus as an allegory for the trail of Pêche Mirage.
"If Pêche Mirage were a sculpture, it would be an invasion of balloons by Charles Petillon." — Delphine Jelk, Guerlain Perfume Creation Director & Perfumer
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At first glance, peach appears in voluptuous rounded lines. The discovery then continues as the vivacity gently rounds out, taking shape with the fruity leathery accents of osmanthus. At the heart of the fragrance, the tension between the fruit and the leather notes becomes palpable, as sensual as a second skin. It unfolds into an intense and enveloping trail in which the sandalwood and the amber tincture warm up the leathery notes.
Guerlain Pêche Mirage is available in 100 ($425) or 200 ($595) ml Eau de Parfum.
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Those prices! 🤣
Isn’t it awful? But that’s the world we live in.
Exactly
See:
https://nstperfume.com/2024/12/26/demand-for-luxury-goods-will-actually-increase-as-their-prices-increase/
Good article to read! And, I am sad for those who work in retail and want to recommend nice goods to anyone who in good faith wants to spend more to get more.
They are cranking them out
Yep.
This also means something is getting discontinued as they intend to only maintain 22 fragrances in the line at any one time.
Ooo 💔
*Could* it be that good??
Nope.
Are you sure? It features a “synthetic note from chemistry”.
(I am very fond of that phrase.)
(Also just totally kidding. Nope is absolutely the right answer.)
Makes a bell jar from SL look almost affordable.
In the old days when you could buy the regular SL bottle for about $80 for 50 ml, and when the vast majority of SL fragrances were masterpieces, that was my benchmark for a reasonably priced niche fragrance.
Amen Robin.
& why didn’t I buy the entire SL line back then! $80 a bottle? Swoon.
Also, not sure if this is behind a paywall but super interesting piece entitled: Obscene Prices, Declining Quality: Luxury is in a Death Spiral.
They don’t mention perfume, but so many of the luxury brands that produce perfume would qualify for that headline.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/opinion/vuitton-chanel-burberry-lvmh-hermes.html
& as for Guerlain’s latest peach scent, the French firm Outremere/Aromarine sells a very nice peach scent for $25. I’m quite a fan of their frags.
Great minds think alike…that’s the same article I linked to above 🙂
I’m curious enough that I will drive over to the cheche mall to try it once the tester bottle is out, but it would have to knock my socks off at that price. Peach’s Revenge is a lot of fun for less $$.
At that price it would have to also cook my dinner and do the dishes.