Guerlain will launch Bouquet Numéro 1 in April. The new fragrance for women is in the Aqua Allegoria range, and will be exclusive to travel retail. As with the recent Guerlain Flora Nymphéa, the inspiration is a spring garden…
Flora Nymphéa is the newest addition to the Aqua Allegoria range at Guerlain. The Aqua Allegoria fragrances are meant to showcase nature, and most years Guerlain adds one or two new scents to the series, and then they might axe a few of the older entries at the same time. At the moment, there appear to be five in production; in addition to the new Flora Nymphéa, there are four survivors from the past: Herba Fresca, Pamplelune (both 1999), Mandarine Basilic (2007) and Tiare Mimosa (2009). The packaging has been given an update this year, with new gold labels on the bottles and white outer boxes featuring a simple bee motif…
Flora Nymphéa will be the 2010 addition to Guerlain’s Aqua Allegoria range. As always, the inspiration is said to be “nature”, in this case, more particularly a spring garden…
The 2009 Aqua Allegorias from Guerlain will be Tiaré-Mimosa and Cherry Blossom. The Aqua Allegoria range, introduced in 1999, is intended to highlight individual raw materials, and the fragrances are usually light and fresh. Guerlain usually releases two new Aqua Allegoria scents every year.
Tiaré-Mimosa will be a “light, sensual” fragrance featuring tiare (gardenia), mimosa, lemon zest, pink pepper, musk and vanilla…
For those of you unfamiliar with the Aqua Allegoria range from Guerlain, they might be seen as “entry level” Guerlains; they are supposed to “showcase nature”, and they tend to be lighter, younger and simpler in composition than the perfumes in the regular line. For the past few years they've been introducing two new Aqua Allegoria scents a year, and discontinuing those that don't do well. There are a few I really like (Herba Fresca, Anisia Bella, Mandarine Basilic), and despite the fact that some years they're just duds, I always look forward to trying the new editions. The 2008 entries: Figue Iris and Laurier Réglisse.
Aqua Allegoria Figue Iris is attributed to perfumer Jean-Paul Guerlain. I'll start right off with a disclaimer: I love fig and I love iris, but the combination doesn't entirely appeal to me, and I've yet to meet a powdery fig I could love…
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