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Vol de Nuit

1933OrientalEDTFrance

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Editorial notes

  1. 01

    A smoky green oriental dedicated to the pilots who flew the night mail across the Andes for Aéropostale.

  2. 02

    Saint-Exupéry, the author of the novel that names the perfume, was a personal friend of the Guerlain family. He died in 1944 flying a P-38 over the Mediterranean.

  3. 03

    Presented in a square sage-green flacon with stylised aeroplane propellers radiating from a central disc, an art-deco design by Raymond Guerlain.

  4. 04

    Composed by Jacques Guerlain in 1933, one of the four creations he considered his personal masterpieces, alongside L'Heure Bleue, Mitsouko and Shalimar.

Dossier

Edition · 000

Status · Active. Heritage formula.

A smoky green oriental.

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

The pyramid

Top
bergamotpetitgrainmandaringalbanum
Heart
jonquilnarcissusjasminespices
Base
irisvanillasandalwoodoakmossambervetiver

The brief

Jacques Guerlain composed it as a hommage to aviation's early heroic age, drawing on the green, leather and engine-oil olfactory imaginary of the open cockpit.

NameNamed after 'Night Flight', Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's 1931 novel about pioneering airmail aviators — Saint-Exupéry was a personal friend of the Guerlain family.

The flacon

Square sage-green flacon with stylised aeroplane propellers radiating from a central disc, an art-deco icon.

Footnotes

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

The Curator's Note

Saint-Exupéry got the novel, Guerlain got the perfume, a generation got the romance.

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