A video for Guerlain’s Yves Klein edition of Guerlain L’Heure Bleue, followed by (below the jump) a spot for the L’Atelier Truscelli bottle for Imagine. Last, a spot for Shalimar Millésime Tonka.
The daily lemming
Guerlain's Imagine (the 2019 fragrance that was a redo of 2011's London) in a collector bottle for Holiday 2022. "For its 2022 Millesime, L’Atelier Truscelli imagined a sumptuous bee-shaped gold-plated jewel, handset with more than 150 sparkling crystals and trimmed with a trail of shining stars. // The orange blossom note carries all the way to the stars a trail whose luminous softness contrasts with its magical intensity, blending precious sandalwood with delicious benzoin resin." Limited edition, 3960 were made, $650 for 145 ml Eau de Parfum at Guerlain. (And if you have even more pennies to spare, the Advent Calendar is in stock for $690.) Update: see comments, perhaps this is unrelated to 2011/2019 London / Imagine.
I have to know Jicky as well as I know Oud Cherry
And this is what’s cool about being at Guerlain: that you have the know-how of manufacturing and I know my fragrances as well as I know Jean-Paul’s, as I know Jacques’… even Pierre-François Pascal Guerlain’s, because the oldest formula I manufacture today is from 1853, Eau de Cologne Imperiale de Guerlain. So I have to know it. I have to know Jicky as well as I know Oud Cherry because I manufacture it. And that’s absolutely unique in the world.
— Perfumer Thierry Wasser, quoted in Guerlain’s Thierry Wasser on scents, sustainability, and L’Art & La Matière at Vogue Singapore.
Friday scent of the day 10/7
It’s Friday and Jacques Guerlain’s birthday. Our community project for today: wear a Guerlain fragrance if you have one. Extra points if it was created by Jacques Guerlain, quintuple bonus points for wearing a week of Guerlain representing five different Guerlain perfumers. Adapted from a suggestion by Oakland Fresca.
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I’m in the Jacques Guerlain masterpiece, Après L’Ondée…
The biggest eureka moment
We had a conversation about a perfume by Guerlain called Nahema and about the rose accord in it. My theory was that it was made in a certain way, Dominique [Ropion]'s theory was that it was made in the different way. And then we sort of looked at each other like, oh, maybe we just take that rose accord and put a huge part of it in the product. It was the probably the biggest eureka moment in my thirty plus years in perfumery. It was amazing, to completely turn the thing around.
— Frédéric Malle on Portrait of a Lady. Read more in History of the Hero: Frédéric Malle Portrait of a Lady at Harper's Bazaar.