L’Heure Bleue Eau de Toilette is the eau de toilette of the fragrance Jacques Guerlain composed in 1912, which the house now sells as L’Heure Bleue 1912, among Les Légendaires. Anise and bergamot open, neroli and a carnation accord form the heart, and the base brings together iris, violet, vanilla, benzoin, and tonka bean; inverted-heart bottle, 75 ml.
Victoria Frolova gives L’Heure Bleue five stars and prefers the more velvety eau de parfum; Sylvaine Delacourte, who never stopped wearing it, smells a delicious marshmallow in it and the invention of the gourmand before Shalimar.
Olfastory’s review
A benchmark for Bois de Jasmin
Victoria Frolova, on Bois de Jasmin, gives L’Heure Bleue five stars and sees it as the embodiment of refinement. She finds the eau de parfum more velvety than the eau de toilette and noted in 2010 a reformulation with a more vanillic base, less animalic and less powdery.
A marshmallow for Delacourte
Sylvaine Delacourte, who led Guerlain’s fragrance creation for fifteen years, smells a delicious marshmallow and a dominant vanilla in it. She sees L’Heure Bleue as the invention of the gourmand before Shalimar, an evening fragrance she says she has never given up.