Eau de Fleurs de Cédrat

As his uncle Aimé had done before him, Jacques Guerlain also tried his hand at Eau de Cologne by composing Eau de fleurs de Cédrat after a trip to Italy where he discovered this splendid citrus fruit. Between Mitsouko and Shalimar, Jacques Guerlain offers a splendid olfactory journey to Italy with Eau de Fleurs de cédrat...

The prestige of Guerlain Eau de Cologne and the legacy of Jacques Guerlain

The first hours of glory for the Guerlain house naturally came from the famous Eau de Cologne Impériale created for Empress Eugénie, composed by a perfumer who was still relatively unknown at the time, Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain. Thanks to this recognition from the 19th-century upper class, the house of Guerlain earned its noble credentials for centuries to come.

Since the achievements of the family's very first perfumer in 1853, tradition holds that each generation of Guerlain perfumers produces its own Eau de Cologne. Jacques's uncle, Aimé Guerlain, created Eau de Cologne du Coq in 1894, while Jacques composed Eau de fleurs du cédrat in 1920.

Eau de fleurs du cédrat was born between two enormous successes by Jacques Guerlain, Mitsouko after the war and Shalimar in 1925. How could one ask this absolute master of the moment, of the olfactory journey, not to take us once again toward distant destinations? It was a trip to Italy that inspired the master perfumer for Eau de fleurs du cédrat.

For the master loved bursting inspiration and the emotion of the moment: Jacques Guerlain worked like a portrait painter at his easel, wrote Jean-Paul Guerlain, and when the creation was finished, he chose a bottle—just as a painter would choose a frame—and offered the new fragrance for sale in the Boutique without delay.

Eau de fleurs de cédrat, or the fragrant, fresh powers of the Mediterranean

The bottle used to protect and distribute this lovely Cologne naturally falls within the house's historical heritage, being similar to the flask designed for Eau de Cologne Impériale with its famous 69 imperial bees.

Eau de fleurs de cédrat is a concentrate of Italy and the riviera, where the summery scents of the sweet Mediterranean jostle together. Refreshing and invigorating, Eau de fleurs de cédrat is composed mainly of this small Italian citrus fruit, whose scent is more subtle than lemon. Of course, this citrus cocktail also offers notes of limetta and bergamot to create a powerful, bursting whole. Verbena leaves play the restrained aromatic counterpart to these unsettling citrus notes, better setting off the woody base of citronwood.

Pure, tangy, limpid, according to the house of Guerlain, Jacques Guerlain's Eau de fleurs de cédrat depicts a dreamed-of Italy in an instant, deeply symbolic olfactory picture...