Jean-Louis Scherrer Parfum: The very first fragrance from the great Parisian couturier Jean-Louis Scherrer, who opened his first haute couture house in 1962.
Jean-Louis Scherrer drew on his experience at the great house of Dior to create haute couture designs entirely built on geometry and drape, both innovative and thoroughly in tune with the times. Now well established, the house of Scherrer chose to venture into perfumery with the simply named Jean-Louis Scherrer, as if to better express in scent the inimitable style of the label.
Jean-Louis Scherrer, a first fragrance in the sensual and luxurious image of the couture house and its creator Max Gavarry
The Jean-Louis Scherrer couture house was created in the 1960s by the couturier of the same name, who had learned his craft at the no less famous house of Christian Dior. Jean-Louis Scherrer's glamorous, luxurious style quickly struck a chord, but he nevertheless waited until the 1980s to offer his very first fragrance, one that he wanted to be entirely in the image of his label and thus logically named Jean-Louis Scherrer.
Jean-Louis Scherrer was one of Max Gavarry's first perfumed works. A talented perfumer who joined the then-young company IFF in 1966 and never left, helping it become one of the leaders in perfumery. Moreover, he particularly liked fragrances with strong longevity, ideally sensual and above all composed of powerful ingredients with unforgettable sillage.
It is hardly surprising, then, to learn that the Jean-Louis Scherrer fragrance would be the first in a long series of successes for the perfumer. It must be said that his inimitable style demonstrated the full scope of the perfumer's talent. As for the young Jean-Louis Scherrer perfume house, it reached the heights right from this very first eponymous fragrance, its refined femininity convincing the daring women ready to enter the opulent perfumery of the 1980s.
Sensuality and power for a visionary Jean-Louis Scherrer fragrance
The Jean-Louis Scherrer Eau de Toilette is one of the first fragrances to have dared offer notes as voluptuous as these, where flowers mingle with the animalic, wild power of an absolute femininity. A forerunner of the opulent fragrances of the 1980s such as Poison, Opium, and so many other marvels, Jean-Louis Scherrer will long remain in our minds as the cult fragrance of a decade when every daring was permitted.
Yet Jean-Louis Scherrer Eau de Toilette opens with restrained, delicate fruity notes of blackcurrant bud mingled with a lovely hyacinth and a delightfully powdery violet. A touch of aldehydes lends its power to announce a grand heart where gardenia, rose, and tuberose become floral velvet. The piquant carnation adds its spicy edge to this gust of flowers. This lovely femininity is soon tinged with the absolute power of an utterly intoxicating sillage built around notes of civet, sandalwood, vetiver, and oakmoss.
A great classic of French perfumery, this green chypre is of incomparable richness and originality: an inimitable signature. Insolent, bold in its sillage, subtle, insidious, tender and so sensual, it remains the symbol of a totally timeless femininity and elegance. Jean-Louis Scherrer, on Jean-Louis Scherrer Eau de Toilette.