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Chamade

1969FloralEDTFrance

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Editorial notes

  1. 01

    A green hyacinth floral with a powdery vanilla drydown, named after Françoise Sagan's 1965 novel about a woman's surrender to a love affair.

  2. 02

    Jean-Paul Guerlain composed it as 'a green fragrance for a woman who lets herself go', on an overdose of green hyacinth and galbanum.

  3. 03

    In French military vocabulary 'chamade' denotes the drumbeat signalling surrender. Sagan and Guerlain both leaned on the metaphor.

  4. 04

    Composed by Jean-Paul Guerlain in 1969 around aldehydes, blackcurrant and hyacinth over a sandalwood-vanilla base, in the inverted-heart Robert Granai flacon.

Dossier

Edition · 000

Status · Active.

A green hyacinth with powdery base.

Composed by
Jean-Paul Guerlain
Founder
Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain
Country
France

The pyramid

Top
aldehydesbergamotgalbanumhyacinthblackcurrant
Heart
ylang-ylangjasminelily-of-the-valleyrosecarnation
Base
sandalwoodvetivertolu balsamvanillabenzoinamber

The brief

Jean-Paul Guerlain composed it as 'a green fragrance for a woman who lets herself go', built around an overdose of green hyacinth and galbanum.

NameNamed after Françoise Sagan's 1965 novel 'La Chamade'. In French military vocabulary the word denotes the drumbeat signalling surrender.

The flacon

Inverted-heart flacon shaped like a drop of rain, designed by Robert Granai.

The Curator's Note

A drumbeat for a love affair, in a flacon shaped like a fallen tear.

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