Jardins de Bagatelle

The fragrance offers a playful and positive woman a cocktail of deep and intense yet sensual flowers, guided by a tuberose note that masters the game. Although the reference is historical, the perfume Jardins de Bagatelle has become a classic.

Jardins de Bagatelle or a folly born of a challenge for a joyful and free woman

At the origin of the building of the Jardins de Bagatelle lies a wild wager proposed to Louis XVI by the comte d'Artois: to build a château in 64 days dedicated to Marie-Antoinette. Nothing would be too beautiful to accomplish this pharaonic project, which had an incalculable number of workers laboring day and night to make the wager succeed. Not only was the project a success, but the château was surrounded by a magnificent rose garden that would become the largest of the 18th century. However, the splendors and architectural surprises offered to the sovereign cost a mere “bagatelle”, which gave the place its ironic name of “Jardins de Bagatelle”, nicknamed “Folie”.

The Jardins de Bagatelle inspire and attract lovers from around the world, both for the beauty of its lush vegetation and its enchanting, marvelous setting. Fittingly, the Jardins de Bagatelle inspired the great perfumer Jean-Paul Guerlain, as the place seems reserved for a Parisian woman as elegant as she is lively and joyful.

Jardins de Bagatelle by Guerlain would then enjoy an advertising campaign with a setting already made for it, where a woman, hair in the wind and dressed all in white, enjoys the generous, fragrant nature surrounding her.

Jardins de Bagatelle is aimed at women who wear perfume always for the pleasure of seducing, but also to please themselves and give themselves pleasure. Guerlain

A symphony of white flowers for a romantic fragrance signed Jean-Paul Guerlain

Jardins de Bagatelle, for once, does not have the traditional bottle of the house of Guerlain, but rather an elegant draped effect on the slender glass shape.

Jardins de Bagatelle, this beautiful opulent floral, is resolutely modern without entirely breaking away from the house's famous Guerlinade. The very airy and fresh top notes of bergamot and lemon offer a delicate violet note. Then lily of the valley, narcissus and iris join rose, hyacinth and jonquil to form the heart of a symphony of fragrant, sweet white flowers. In the base notes, sun-kissed, exotic and playful tuberose offers its graceful and original facets to musky, woody, almost chypre notes, the better to lend the power of their sensuality to the white flowers.

Guerlain's Collection Patrimoine has chosen Jardins de Bagatelle to feature in this brilliant compendium of the house of Guerlain's most emblematic perfumes since its founding. Clearly, the luminosity and joyfulness of this magnificent floral, with raw materials as elegantly fragrant as they are precious, make it a great classic of perfumery.