Insolence, boldness and more boldness. A giant of French luxury and elegance, the house of Guerlain has more than 300 perfumes to its name. Guerlain was founded in 1928 by Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain, who sold personalized perfumes to each customer.
Insolence is a perfume created by Guerlain in 2006. Conceived as a spark in the eye or a fearless smile on a woman's face, it is a fragrance that does not go unnoticed. As for its scent, it owes its existence to Maurice Roucel and is essentially composed of violet. Floral and powdery, this raw material is played here in overdose, while being enhanced with iris and orange blossom. As for its bottle, however, Insolence has changed appearance several times. After all, is that not a mark of its exuberance? So how about rediscovering its two bottles?
A bottle initially designed by Serge Mansau
Initially, in 2006, Guerlain's feminine perfume Insolence was presented in a very original bottle, designed by Serge Mansau. It displayed a very particular shape, having nothing in common with the usual perfume bottles. More specifically, Guerlain likes to say that Insolence revealed itself in a glass structure resembling a waltz in three movements. Its bottle consisted of 3 half-spheres, balanced one upon the other. The first of them was positioned like a roly-poly toy, as if to symbolize an unstable balance. In reality, this was meant to echo insolence, or the art of constantly creating surprise. The main sphere of this bottle was also decorated with a platinum ring, bearing the name of this perfume. The smallest sphere, meanwhile, bore the Guerlain logo. The transparency of the glass then revealed the full beauty of a violet-colored fragrance, echoing the main ingredient of this essence.
Insolence, the return of Guerlain's Flacon aux Abeilles
Then, in order to place it within a collection of Guerlain's timeless perfumes, the house decided to set aside this first bottle in favor of a bottle well known to all: a modern reinterpretation of Guerlain's famous Flacon aux Abeilles. As it happens, Guerlain's Flacon aux Abeilles was designed in 1853 by Pierre-François Pascal Guerlain for Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III. This is precisely why this visual is adorned with numerous bees, once symbols of the Empire and today the emblem of the house of Guerlain. This timeless bottle reveals a piece of the history of this great French house. For the occasion, it combines two different shades of violet: one lighter and the other darker, at the level of its label. Its name, meanwhile, is written in gold, a shade also present on its cap, a mark of all of Guerlain's refinement. A small glass sphere also decorates the top of this structure. The result is an appealing visual, a testament to a rich era for the Guerlain brand, like a dive into its prestigious heritage.
Now, Guerlain's Insolence bottle comes in three different sizes. It is presented in 30, 50 or 100 ml spray bottles.