L’Heure de Nuit is the eau de parfum Thierry Wasser composed for Guerlain in 2012, the year L’Heure Bleue turned one hundred, offering a lighter reading of it. Orange blossom and heliotrope in the heart, iris, vanilla, and white musks in the base. It is sold in the Les Parisiennes collection, in the 125 ml bee bottle.
A measured reception: Thomas Dunckley praises a careful execution but finds it lackluster next to L’Heure Bleue, while Persolaise defends it against purists who would have accepted nothing short of a clone of the original.
Olfastory’s review
A reinterpretation judged too tame
In December 2012, Thomas Dunckley acknowledged on his blog a well-made piece, softer and more powdery than the original, centered on iris. Yet he finds nothing truly new in it, falling short of L’Heure Bleue as well as of Francis Kurkdjian’s APOM Femme.
Defended against the purists
Persolaise, who discovered it in February 2021, admits that devotees of Jacques Guerlain find the tribute falls short of the original. He counters that many of them would have accepted nothing short of a clone of L’Heure Bleue, and invites readers to judge it as a Wasser composition.