Guerlain launched Idylle in September 2009, Thierry Wasser’s first feminine fragrance as the house perfumer. Around a communelle of Bulgarian roses with hints of raspberry and lychee, he brings together lily of the valley, peony, freesia, lilac and jasmine over a chypre base of patchouli and white musks. Persolaise finds its diffusion astonishing; Victoria, of Bois de Jasmin, expected more.
The house opens Idylle on a shower of flowers: a lily-of-the-valley accord, peony, freesia and white lilac. The heart pairs jasmine with the communelle of Bulgarian roses, whose fruity hints of raspberry and lychee it highlights.
In the base, a chypre accord rests on patchouli and white musks. The house describes musks with clean, velvety scents, whose powdery trail ends up blending into the very scent of the woman who wears it.
The bergamot sometimes attributed to its top notes appears in none of the lists published by the house, neither at launch nor today.
What the label declares
The list published by Guerlain names, after alcohol, fragrance and water, two ultraviolet filters, ahead of citronellol and geraniol, two components of rose oil, hydroxycitronellal, the lily-of-the-valley molecule, linalool and limonene.
It also includes benzyl benzoate and benzyl salicylate, farnesol, eugenol and isoeugenol, benzyl alcohol, citral, and three colorants, red, yellow and violet.
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