Habit Rouge

1965 OrientalEDTFrance

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Editorial notes

01
An ambery leather widely cited by Guerlain as the first oriental fragrance composed for men, drawing on leather, tobacco and the trail of the rider.
02
Jean-Paul Guerlain composed it after a horseback ride at Rambouillet. The name refers to the scarlet jackets of traditional French equestrian hunt riders.
03
Often described as the masculine counterpart to Shalimar, sharing the same bergamot-vanilla Guerlinade base that ties the house catalogue together.
04
Composed by Jean-Paul Guerlain in 1965 around bergamot, lemon and lavender over a leather-amber-vanilla base, in the heart-shaped Coeur flacon adapted from L'Heure Bleue.

Dossier

Edition · 000

Status · Active. Reformulated.

An ambery leather with vanilla.

Composed by: Jean-Paul Guerlain
Bottle by: Robert Granai
Founder: Pierre-François Pascal Guerlain
Country: France

The pyramid

Top: bergamotlemonorangenerolilavender
Heart: carnationjasminerosecinnamonpatchouli
Base: vanillaleatheramberbenzoinoakmoss

The brief

Jean-Paul Guerlain composed it after a horseback ride at Rambouillet, drawing on leather, tobacco and the trail of the rider.

NameHabit Rouge ('red coat') refers to the scarlet jackets of traditional French equestrian hunt riders.

Why it mattered

Widely cited by Guerlain and perfume historians as the first ambery oriental fragrance composed for men

The flacon

Heart-shaped 'Coeur' flacon adapted from Guerlain's 1908 L'Heure Bleue bottle, presented in red-orange juice.

Footnotes

Habit Rouge is often described as the masculine counterpart to Guerlain's 1925 Shalimar, sharing its bergamot-vanilla 'Guerlinade' base.

The Curator's Note

Shalimar for men, made for the kind of man Shalimar made nervous.

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