Guerlain Perfumes

Champs-Élysées Eau de Toilette

• Top notes: Almond, violet, blackcurrant
• Heart notes: Mimosa, rose, almond blossom
• Base notes: Vanilla, cedar, sandalwood, and benzoin
• Glass spray bottle
• Released in 1996
• 50 mL capacity

Shalimar Parfum Initial Eau de Toilette

• Top notes: Orange, bergamot, grapefruit, neroli
• Heart notes: Rose, jasmine, iris
• Base notes: Vanilla and tonka bean
• Glass spray bottle
• Released in 2012
• 60 mL capacity

L’Instant de Guerlain Eau de Toilette

• Top notes: Grapefruit, green apple, bergamot, black currant
• Heart notes: Magnolia, jasmine, neroli, gardenia, lily of the valley
• Base notes: Amber
• Glass spray bottle
• Released in 2005
• 50 mL capacity

Shalimar Eau de Toilette

• Top notes: Bergamot
• Heart notes: Jasmine, rose, iris
• Base notes: Tonka bean and vanilla
• Glass spray bottle
• Released in 1925
• 50 mL capacity

Mitsouko Eau de Parfum

• Top notes: Citrus, bergamot, rose, jasmine
• Heart notes: Peach, lilac, ylang-ylang, rose
• Base notes: Amber, spices, oak moss, cinnamon and vetiver
• Glass spray bottle
• Released in 1919
• 75 mL capacity

Samsara Eau de Toilette

• Top notes: Peach, ylang-ylang, bergamot, lemon
• Heart notes: Iris, iris pallida, violet, jasmin, rose, narcissus
• Base notes: Sandalwood, tonka beans, amber, musk, vanilla
• Glass spray bottle
• Released in 1989
• 50 mL capacity

Idylle Eau de Parfum

• Top notes: Rose, lily of the valley, peony, freesia, jasmin
• Base notes: Patchouli and musk
• Glass spray bottle
• Released in 2009
• 100 mL capacity

La Petite Robe Noire Eau de Parfum

• Top notes: Black cherry, bergamot, berries, almond
• Heart notes: Rose, licorice, black tea
• Base notes: Aniseed, tonka bean, vanilla, iris, patchouli
• Glass spray bottle
• Released in 2009
• 100 mL capacity

About Guerlain

In 1828, Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain opened a perfume shop in Paris. Behind his simple storefront, he began to dabble in perfume-making himself. By the 1850s, he was bottling custom fragrances for royalty, including Eau Imperiale for Empress Eugenie, wife of Napoleon III; Queen Isabelle of Spain; Sissi, the Empress of Austria; and the Grand Duke Alexandrovich. Queen Victoria wore “Jicky,” and 100 years later, so did Jackie O.

Today—five generations later—the company’s in-house “nose” continues to create new fragrances. They also introduced a line of skincare products and makeup. Vogue writes that the company “still, today, has all the elegant, exclusive cachet it had during the Second Empire.”