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Après l'Ondée (1906)

I have a special affection for Après l'Ondée, because for me it is the "Mother of L'Heure Bleue" that I have always worn. Unfortunately, Après l'Ondée no longer exists in extract form due to IFRA standards. If we had made it conform to the current standards, it would have been really disfigured, but nevertheless and fortunately, we still have it in its eau de toilette version.

I see Après l'Ondée as a watercolour and L'Heure Bleue as a work "with substance", with depth, with a rich and dense base, both more mossy and more oriental. Unlike Après l'Ondée, L'Heure Bleue has a "marshmallow" accord, a combination of orange blossom and vanilla, as well as the outline of the famous guerlinade.

 

 

Story

One spring day, a storm breaks out. It pours its waters on the still warm nature. The rain wets every flower petal, every blade of grass, the bark of the trees. And when the storm ends, the sky clears, a few timid rays of sunlight appear and nature is refreshed, sublimating its scents.

Après l'Ondée tells the story of the moment when the sound of the rain fades away, giving way to a soft light filtered through the leaves of the trees. And the warm smells of the earth, the leaves and the flowers exalted, to give us its sweetest fragrances.

Après l'Ondée is a poetic perfume by Jacques Guerlain, who was walking in the countryside when a storm broke out. Impressed by the smell of nature, he composed this ode to flowers, wet with dew. It is a fragrance full of nuances, delicacy, in communion with the elements of the earth, a fragrance that celebrates the beautiful weather after the rain, a fragrance that makes you want to walk barefoot in the grass.

 

Description

The floral accord develops citrus notes at the top accompanied by aniseed notes. In the heart, a rich bouquet of orange blossom, violets and carnations, hawthorn gives way to a powdery base (emanating from the roots of the iris, here, is put in the formula directly the iris butter or concrete iris), heliotrope and vanilla. Après l'Ondée is an iris wet with dew pearls.

What Après l'Ondée and Heure Bleue have in common is the oregano accord, created by Coty, an accord composed of orange blossom, violet, spicy notes: clove and vanilla. He was one of the first, if not the first, to use anisic aldehyde created in 1887, as well as heliotropin created in 1889, and ionones.

 

Olfactory pyramid

 

Family: powdery floral

Quand vient la pluie, a fragrance we developed for the exclusive line with Thierry Wasser, when he was not yet the House perfumer, we wanted to work on this theme: treat Après l'Ondée in a more contemporary way with a more present and addictive base. All of this is housed in the sculpture bottle designed by Serge Mansau.

 

Original bottle

The bottle, called the Louis XVI bottle, evokes a basket of basketry, which would have belonged to Marie-Antoinette, who was crazy about the countryside. The stopper takes the design of the clover flower, symbol of the flowers of the fields. But now in the spray bottle of the imperial eau de Cologne.

 

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