Jardins de Bagatelle is the floral eau de toilette Jean-Paul Guerlain composed in 1983, in tribute to the Château de Bagatelle and its gardens in Paris. The current version, reissued in the Les Légendaires collection, brings together bergamot, a heart of jasmine, neroli and gardenia, and a base of tuberose and wood.
Guerlain today describes a luminous floral: bergamot opens onto a heart of jasmine, neroli and gardenia, extended in the base by tuberose and woody notes.
Neroli, jasmine and gardenia
Neroli, distilled from orange blossom, brings a honeyed note; jasmine grandiflorum, which the house sources mainly from India, and velvety gardenia complete the bouquet of white flowers.
Tuberose and wood
Tuberose, from which the house draws a concrete and an absolute, gives the base its sensuality, softened by woody notes.
The original notes
Osmoz gives other notes for the 1983 version: violet, bergamot and lemon in the top; narcissus, lily of the valley, cassie and iris in the heart; civet, cedar, patchouli and vetiver in the base.
What the label declares
The house’s list opens with alcohol, water and fragrance. Next come hydroxycitronellal, with lily-of-the-valley tones, amyl cinnamal, alpha-isomethyl ionone, limonene, a UV filter and linalool.
Citronellol, benzyl benzoate, eugenol, hexyl cinnamal, benzyl salicylate, geraniol, benzyl alcohol, coumarin, farnesol, citral, benzyl cinnamate, amylcinnamyl alcohol and isoeugenol complete the list.
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