Guerlain's Cherry Blossom limited edition for 2023 will debut in February. (If you want to drool over past editions, see 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018). This year's model features decorations by Parisian embroidery studio Maison Vermont. The design includes a grosgrain ribbon, plus branches embroidered on thin gauze with flexible gold wire, fabric petals, and pink, clear, and red 'pearls' to represent each blossom's corolla. In 145 ml plus 20 ml travel spray; 3000 bottles were made. (via fashionsnap)
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The latest potential drain on your wallet from Guerlain (and another collaboration with Maison Matisse): Couleur Bonheur, a modern fruity chypre celebrating the 170th anniversary of the bee bottle and La Musique, a 1939 painting by Henri Matisse. "The first movement, an allegro vivace, features the yellow of bergamot with crystalline tones. The second movement, an allegro espressivo, offers the velvety orange of an apricot accord blended with the brightness of rose. The third movement, an allegro andante, showcases the deep purple of iris contrasted with the white of a leather accord." In 1L Extrait de Parfum, 14 hand painted bottles were made, if you have to ask the price you can't afford it.
Jasmin Bonheur x 2
First up, the Matisse-inpired spot for Guerlain Jasmin Bonheur. Below the jump, perfumer Delphine Jelk talks about the fragrance.
One of these days, part 11
Perfumer Delphine Jelk on the new La Petite Robe Noire Rose Cherry.
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If you did not snatch up the Abeille Noire Édition Prestige / Black Bee Prestige Edition of Guerlain Imagine, here’s another chance to get a piece of French jeweler Lorenz Bäumer’s work for Guerlain: La Secret de la Reine. The wings open if you press on the 2 carat pear-shaped diamond just below the “head”, and then you can use a pipette to scent the honeycomb section. It is almost 3 inches long, and it can be worn as a brooch or pendant. Shown above in the rock crystal, white and yellow gold version, and below the jump in the onyx and white gold version. Both versions feature over 14 carats of diamonds…