Guerlain Jasmin Bonheur is the fragrance house’s colourful collaboration with Maison Matisse. Perfumer Thierry Wasser tells us more
French fragrance house Guerlain has launched new perfume Jasmin Bonheur, which takes the classic white flower and vivifies it with notes inspired by the colour palette of Henri Matisse.
We first spoke to Guerlain’s Thierry Wasser 15 years ago, when he’d just taken over from his mentor, Jean-Paul Guerlain, as the brand’s in-house perfumer. As the first Guerlain perfumer from outside the family, Wasser’s appointment to one of the oldest and most respected fragrance houses was a watershed moment in the beauty world – one which we commemorated with the below portrait.
‘I have a catalogue of over 1,000 raw materials, with the oldest fragrance I produce dating back to 1853, so we have a huge catalogue with ingredients we’ve been sourcing since the 19th century. Having those raw materials from that time, it can inspire you tremendously. It's not a burden at all.’ The brand’s latest launch, Jasmin Bonheur, is typical of Wasser's innovative interpretation of traditional ingredients.
Wasser took Matisse’s bold colour palette as the key inspiration for the new scent, which features a heart of brilliant white jasmine complemented by rose , iris , and apricot . As with every Guerlain fragrance, it also includes the house’s signature Guerlinade blend, which combines rose, iris, vanilla, tonka bean, bergamot and jasmine to give each perfume, no matter how different, a unifying element.
For Jasmin Bonheur, the brand sourced jasmine from the south of France and India, as well as Italy, where a rare Calabrian jasmine was replanted exclusively for Guerlain in the exact place where it bloomed more than 40 years ago.
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