L’heuare Bleue from Guerlain

Both balanced and gentle, L’Heure Bleue combines the powdery notes of iris and indulgent notes of vanilla blended with musk, with the warmth of carnation and aniseed, lending it a highly distinctive velvety sensuality. The delicately fresh top notes are a bold accord of bergamot and aniseed. The spicy, floral and heady heart notes combine carnation, neroli and heliotrope with Bulgarian rose and tuberose. Alongside these nostalgic notes, unsettling and powdery hints of iris, violet, vanilla and the infusion of musk persist in the background. Musk is characteristic of L’Heure Bleue and is what makes it a sensual perfume. Used in significant proportions, it is what gives it the carnal depth and distinctive oluptuousness of love fulfilled in serenity. This magnificently constructed perfume was also the first Guerlain perfume to contain aldehydes. Feminine and delicate, L’Heure Bleue nevertheless has volume and power in its breadth. This is indeed its paradox, tender yet sensual, delicate yet intense, controlled yet bubbling with life, secretive and yet flamboyant - a perfume that is so difficult to define yet so easy to remember. It is impossible to forget! Old fashioned for some, modernist for others, Thierry Wasser says of it today that “it is such a delicate harmony that it will not tolerate any modification”. It is comparable to velvet, adorning the skin of a woman and entrancing men. And don’t be taken in by its air of timidity, L’Heure Bleue has magical powers which cast a spell over people’s hearts!