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L'Interdit Givenchy

Published September 16, 2026 · Updated October 7, 2026

L'Interdit returns in 2018, sixty-one years after the perfume created for Audrey Hepburn, in an entirely new formula signed by Dominique Ropion, Anne Flipo and Fanny Bal. Givenchy sets a bouquet of white flowers — tuberose, orange blossom, sambac jasmine — against a base of patchouli, vetiver and ambroxan, with Rooney Mara as the face of the campaign.

A round bottle set on a transparent base, pink juice, a black ribbon at the neck and an engraved pendant: the 2018 version borrows nothing from previous bottles.

The 2018 bottle is a rounded flask set on a wide transparent base, topped with a matching cap. A black ribbon tied at the neck holds a small square pendant engraved with the house's logo, and the juice, a soft pink, shows through the glass.

Despina Veneti finds it clean and elegant, one of the few points on which her review holds nothing back. Nothing in it recalls previous bottles, neither the 1957 one nor the 2007 Parfums Mythiques one.