La Petite Robe Noire Velours

Yet the perfumer also enjoys offering, through these lovely bottles, beautiful journeys into the olfactory past rich in the discoveries of his illustrious predecessors. More than ever, La Petite Robe Noire Velours serves as the spokesperson for this sophisticated blend of past and future, between traditional prestigious effluvia and fruity, sensual daring.

Daring to embrace the tenderness and sophistication of a violet flower for La Petite Robe Noire Velours

Delphine Jelk gave it life successfully in 2009 in Guerlain boutiques, and Thierry Wasser added further depth to it to offer it to everyone in 2012 — we are speaking of La Petite Robe Noire, of course! A Guerlain fragrance that skillfully combined a legendary Guerlinade with distinctive gourmand fruity accords to offer a Guerlain fragrance just as innovative as Shalimar or Jicky were in their time.

In 2019, Thierry Wasser reaffirms with La Petite Robe Noire Velours the sophistication of this rosy, very feminine juice by adding an oversized violet flower that is reborn with modernity in the gourmand macaron accord.

It is a safe bet that the famous black-paper ambassador created by Kuntzel & Deygas will this time take us, for La Petite Robe Noire, into a Paris draped in velvet and tenderness, or perhaps into Parisian alleyways that tell the story of the beautiful capital's past, so much does the violet flower evoke the richness of Guerlain's olfactory heritage. Whatever the case, once again La Petite Robe Noire becomes tenderness and elegance, and La Petite Robe Noire Velours has not finished captivating us!

What if La Petite Robe Noire Velours were the bold marriage of absolute modernity and the past of the beautiful house of Guerlain?

Thierry Wasser says of La Petite Robe Noire that he wanted for this fragrance a strong signature faithful to the essentials of Guerlain. Plurielles.fr.

Thus we find, in every bottle of La Petite Robe Noire, the raw materials that made the great Guerlain fragrances successful, such as patchouli, iris, tonka bean, vanilla, or even the violet of the founder's eaux de Cologne from the 19th century. We are therefore hardly surprised to see this lovely violet take flight in La Petite Robe Noire Velours, so attached does the house remain to its past, to the eaux de Cologne that marked its great eras, such as Eau de Cologne Impériale or Eau de Cologne du Coq.

However, the violet in La Petite Robe Noire Velours is not there to display freshness but rather to bring its powdery tenderness to the cherry, the raspberry, the rose, and of course to the sensualities of licorice, woody notes, and vanilla from the depths. More than ever, the violet displays in La Petite Robe Noire Velours its modernity and its ease at bringing tenderness to gourmand sillages.