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L'Heure Bleue

1912OrientalEDPFrance

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Editorial notes

  1. 01

    Twilight, anise, iris and a faint cake-like sweetness, all suspended in the brief blue moment before the lamps come on along the Seine.

  2. 02

    Composed on the eve of the First World War. Perfume historians have since read it as the olfactive portrait of a Belle Époque about to vanish.

  3. 03

    Presented in the square Carré crystal flacon with a heart-shaped Baccarat stopper, a Raymond Guerlain design that became the maison's silhouette template for the next century.

  4. 04

    Composed by Jacques Guerlain in 1912, one of the four creations he considered his personal masterpieces, alongside Mitsouko, Shalimar and Vol de Nuit.

Dossier

Edition · 000

Status · Active. Heritage flacon.

A powdery anisic floral.

Composed by
Jacques Guerlain
Founder
Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain
Country
France

The pyramid

Top
bergamotanisecorianderneroli
Heart
carnationtuberosevioletroseylang-ylang
Base
iristonka beanvanillabenzoinmusk

The brief

Composed on the eve of the First World War; later described by perfume historians as the olfactory portrait of a vanishing Belle Époque.

Name'The Blue Hour' — the brief twilight moment between day and night that Jacques Guerlain associated with melancholic Parisian dusk.

The flacon

The 'Carré' flacon, a square crystal bottle with a heart-shaped stopper designed by Raymond Guerlain and produced by Baccarat.

Footnotes

  • L'Heure Bleue is one of the four Guerlain compositions Jacques Guerlain considered his masterpieces, alongside Mitsouko, Shalimar and Vol de Nuit.

The Curator's Note

The smell of a world about to end, bottled by a man who somehow knew.

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