Launched worldwide in 2012, La Petite Robe Noire was not born that year. Delphine Jelk had composed it in 2009 for Guerlain boutiques only, at a time when she did not yet work for the house. Thierry Wasser reworked the formula before its wide release. Built around an accord of black cherry, almond and licorice laid over a rose, the eau de parfum brought the gourmand into Guerlain, and divided critics from its release.
The square bottle with the inverted-heart stopper of L’Heure Bleue, shaded from black to powder pink, dressed in a little dress drawn by Florence Deygas.
In 2009, the boutique exclusive used the Mitsouko bottle, dressed in a black gradient and a dress silhouette. The 2012 version moved to the square bottle with the inverted-heart stopper, designed in 1912 for L’Heure Bleue, in a gradient running from black to powder pink.
Guerlain credits the dress that adorns it to the artists Olivier Kuntzel and Florence Deygas, after an original drawing by Florence Deygas. In April 2013, the Fragrance Foundation France gave it the award for best feminine bottle of the year.
The drawing did not convince everyone: in 2012, Jessica, on Now Smell This, wondered whether a caricatured silhouette really suited the house’s classic bottle, with its inverted-heart stopper.
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