Guerlain this time imagines the scent of a pleated dress. What French luxury house is more emblematic than Guerlain? For 200 years, this brand has established itself as one of the most celebrated master perfumers on the planet.
The Guerlain house is without a doubt one of the greatest creators of success, both with its first bottles from the 19th century and with its pretty little black dress that has been turning heads since 2012. And this Petite Robe Noire continues to surprise us a little more each year by changing its scented outfit with every season. In the summer season of 2019, it dressed up, to our great delight, in fruitier, greener notes—let's discover how La Petite Robe Noire became La Petite Robe Noire Plissée!
La Petite Robe Noire Plissée and its perfumer Thierry Wasser's favorite rose
When Thierry Wasser, the Guerlain house's in-house perfumer since the late 2010s, revealed the scented composition of La Petite Robe Noire in 2012, he added to the original creation gourmand cherry accords and a Guerlinade that he modernized for the occasion by giving it even more sensuality through patchouli notes.
The man liked his composition, but on the other hand, he was clearly not convinced by its name, La Petite Robe Noire, which he considered a marketing gimmick! And yet, in the end, he let himself be won over, and La Petite Robe Noire became the house's new best-seller!
For La Petite Robe Noire Plissée, Thierry Wasser reworked the fruity-chypre composition of the little dress by adding new fruits and green, vegetal touches that would dress it in a haze of summery freshness—a freshness that remains just as elegant, perhaps even a bit Parisian.
A scented creation signed Guerlain: a green floral eau de toilette, fresh and joyful, edged with delicious notes of rose and apricot. Guerlain on La Petite Robe Noire Plissée.
When rose turns summery and green in La Petite Robe Noire Plissée
For La Petite Robe Noire, Thierry Wasser worked with the olfactory elements of the traditional Guerlinade (tonka bean, iris, jasmine, rose, bergamot and vanilla), by his own admission his favorite raw materials, in order to open them up to a wind of dark modernity such as cherry or licorice and exotic woods. For La Petite Robe Noire Plissée, the perfumer chose to set aside these very dark elements to offer us a breeze of even more summery fruits instead.
Thus La Petite Robe Noire Plissée opens on sparkling citrus notes, always framed by the soft note of almond. But the green note lends its powerful, vegetal breath to this opening, energizing it even further and propelling us into a heart where rose remains the star, but where apricot and solar notes come to frame it with warmth from the south, from a place where the sun never sets. Finally, of course, white musks and patchouli close this ball of fruits and flowers with a burning, sensual flourish, for at heart La Petite Robe Noire Plissée is above all a pretty seductress!