Vol de Nuit is the fragrance Jacques Guerlain composed in 1933 as a tribute to the pioneers of aviation, after Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s novel published two years earlier. The house classifies it as an amber chypre: green galbanum and citrus in the opening, jonquil and jasmine at the heart, a base of moss, sandalwood, iris and vanilla.
For the extrait, a smoked-glass bottle with a propeller motif and a metal stopper; for the eau de toilette, the 1912 bottle with a hollow heart-shaped stopper.
Vol de Nuit appeared in 1933 in a bottle suggesting an airplane propeller. The extrait keeps it: smoked glass with a radiating relief evoking a propeller in motion and a wing in flight, the name cut out of gilded metal, a square metal stopper like a machine part.
The bottle thus celebrates mechanics and the conquest of the air. Gaia, on The Non-Blonde, sees in this classic propeller bottle reason enough for men to dare wear the fragrance.
The eau de toilette comes in the bottle designed in 1912, with rounded shoulders and Art Nouveau scrolls, topped with a hollow heart-shaped stopper. The house attributes its design to Raymond Guerlain and presents this stopper as a technical feat.
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