L'Instant: the enchantment of the perfumed moment of L'Instant Guerlain likes to play, across the eras, with the traditional values of its family saga.
L'Instant de Guerlain is a great classic of women's perfumery, which appeared in 2003. Resembling a suspended moment and an intense emotion, it has created a genuine olfactory love at first sight since its release. Women adore it and let themselves be won over by its thoroughly feminine sensitivity. Olfactorily, L'Instant de Guerlain contains numerous white flowers, and more particularly Chinese magnolia. This juice owes its existence to perfumer Maurice Roucel and fills everyday life with a generous breath. But what about its bottle? In fact, L'Instant de Guerlain has had two different bottles, appearing successively. Let us decode these two precious containers together.
The first bottle of L'Instant de Guerlain, a masterpiece of architecture
Upon its release in 2003, L'Instant de Guerlain was presented in a bottle sculpted like a piece of jewelry. A jewel of balance, it displayed a rectangular appearance while also rounding out with a few curves. Its base thus appeared perfectly suited to a woman's grip, also lending it a certain softness. Its cap, on the other hand, was meant to be much more robust and square, bringing a certain rigor to its visual. In the purest respect of Guerlain's tradition, the bottle of L'Instant also bore a small silk cord at its neck, in an amethyst shade. This violet hue, however, was far from having been chosen at random. Generally speaking, violet evokes imagination and enchantment. L'Instant de Guerlain thus seemed to possess something magical within it, that little extra soul that makes all the difference. Likewise, it was in this same color that its name was inscribed, standing out against an amber, slightly pink-tinged juice. Finally, the iconic logo of the house of Guerlain, born in the 1930s, was engraved on its cap.
The return of Guerlain's legendary Bee Bottle
L'Instant de Guerlain is now no longer presented in its original container. Being one of the house's great classics, it is now offered in the legendary Bee Bottle, first created in 1853, when it was intended for Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III. Here, it is a more modern and less costly variation of this prestigious bottle. It retains its finely sculpted dome shape, as well as its numerous bees covering its walls. As a reminder, the bee was once the symbol of the Empire. It has today become one of Guerlain's greatest symbols. To evoke the color of the first bottle of L'Instant de Guerlain, this new container bears a violet label. The rest of its walls, meanwhile, are more amber-toned. Infinitely luminous, L'Instant de Guerlain carries an orange-tinted glow. A crystal ball adorns its gold-toned spray nozzle. Undoubtedly, the visual of L'Instant is a fresh concentrate of elegance and craftsmanship. This bottle comes in two different sizes, in a 50 or 100 ml spray bottle.