L'Heure Bleue

The sun has set, yet night has not fallen. It is that suspended hour… The hour when man finally finds himself in harmony with the world and the light. At the very moment the sun fades below the horizon and the sky takes on the velvety hues of night, “L’Heure Bleue” fills the air with its atmosphere—the indescribable fragrance of exceptional moments. L’Heure Bleue was born in 1912 from that fleeting sensation that inspired the Impressionist painters whose works Jacques Guerlain collected. Jacques Guerlain then envisioned this bouquet of roses softened by iris, violet, and vanilla, evoking his creator’s favorite moment of the day when, as he put it, “the night has not yet found its star” and all of nature is bathed in a blue light.