Guerlain has launched Shalimar Ode à la Vanille, a new limited edition variation on their iconic Shalimar fragrance for women.
Shalimar Ode à la Vanille is an oriental…
Jean-Paul Guerlain & Thierry Wasser at The Perfume Diaries, Harrods
About the author: Nina is our guest shopper for London. If you missed her review of the Perfume Diaries exhibit, you can find it here. She took all of the images for this article.
The Perfume Diaries season at Harrods is not just about the exhibition. Throughout September, there are a number of evening events featuring some of the people and processes involved in the production of perfume.
For me, the most exciting of these was ‘The House of Guerlain’ on 9 September, with Jean-Paul Guerlain himself, and current in-house parfumeur, Thierry Wasser. I went along with my friend and neighbour Stephanie, fizzing with excitement.
All of the events are first-come-first-seated, apart from this one, which was a very hard gig to get into. On the night, the exhibition area was packed, with guests being checked off carefully on a list and absolutely no interlopers allowed to gatecrash…
This is your love song
A promo for the new Eau de Toilette version of Guerlain Idylle. If you missed it, the original commercial is here.
Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles 2010, part 13
More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US.
The new bottle for Guerlain Shalimar, designed by Jade Jagger (yes, daughter of Mick and Bianca) and due to launch in September. It will be available in 30, 50 and 90 ml Eau de Parfum, and in a limited edition 20 ml Extrait version…
Guerlain Vega and Etat Libre d’Orange Vraie Blonde ~ fragrance review
A statuesque blonde draped in bias-cut, ivory silk charmeuse is a classic image of glamour. She drinks champagne, has breakfast in bed on a tray, takes bubble baths, and breaks hearts. A puff of maribou trims the toe of each of her slippers. Now that this image is firmly in mind, let’s tweak it. Give our blonde a few years in a Swiss finishing school, a lusty appetite for lobster at midnight, and a laugh a little too loud for her patrician mother, and you have Guerlain Vega. Substitute wine coolers for the champagne, a facility for Pig Latin rather than French, and an addiction to patent leather heels from Payless, and you have Etat Libre d’Orange Vraie Blonde. They’re sisters from opposite sides of the tracks.
Jacques Guerlain created Vega, a blowsy floral aldehyde, in 1936…