Description
Guerlain presents the new collection of fragrances in Colour Collection Flacon Quadrilobé, featuring five fragrances from the exclusive offer. The new collection is a response to the challenge of creating associations and synthesis between certain colors and scents. The iconic Guerlain Quadrilobé bottle was created by Baccarat in 1908 for Jacques Guerlain’s perfume Rue de la Paix. The bottle, which is now produced by Verreries Brosse, is used for private and exclusive collections.
For Colour Collection, the famous bottle is presented in five different colors for the first time, referring to five types of precious gems. Each bottle comes in a luxurious amethyst box with the Guerlain symbol of the sun. The gemstone-colored bottles contain five different fragrances selected from the Les Exclusifs collection: the sapphire bottle contains L’Heure de Nuit (2012), the ruby bottle features Oriental Brûlant (2008), Santal Royal (2014) comes in a green bottle that represents emerald, amber is the color of Spiritueuse Double Vanille (2007), and amethyst is the color for L’Eau de Parfum du 68 (2013).
Spiritueuse Double Vanille comes in a bottle of amber color, which refers to the shimmering sensuality. The fragrance is a sparkling elixir of rum, cedar, vanilla and herbs.
Colour Collection Flacon Quadrilobé perfumes are available in bottles of 125 ml at the price of 650 Euros. They will be sold starting in June 2016 in the Guerlain boutique at Place Vendome. The nose behind this fragrance is Jean-Paul Guerlain.
RealSofT495 – :
Just tried this and what Coffee Girl said, it’s all that and more, especially the opening scene to The Godfather, YES! This turns tobacco heavy on my skin, it’s dark, dangerous and a little scary and I don’t scare easily.Not sure what I was expecting but it wasn’t this lethally boozy, tobacco vanilla potion. Not getting more than a touch of sweetness, to me this is pretty dark juice. Wear with caution, it could scare or seduce, or both – there’s no telling which way it would go imho.
Sergei-5-5 – :
Imagine Vito Corleone in the opening scene of The Godfather where he is confronted by Amerigo Bonasera about a particular murder-for-hire of two young men. This scene takes place inside a dark and smoky room with just enough light to showcase the tension that exists between Vito and the undertaker, if that room had a smell it would be Spritueuse Double Vanille.
SDV is the upper crust of the perfume world and its price/exclusivity pretty much sums up how rare this gem is. Spiritueuse was designed by Jean Paul Guerlain himself in 2007 with the intentions of it being a limited edition scent only available at the higher end boutiques in Paris. Double Vanille is an elegant and boozy fragrance reminiscent of dark liquor and tobacco.
This starts out thick and decadent with heavy notes of rum and benzoin, there is a dark boozy undertone that stays throughout the initial stage and into the dry down. The opening is reminiscent of expensive liquor and pipe tobacco, the chocolate stage follows abruptly with a hint of smoke and cedar. Its middle stage is where I fell in love, once the alcohol and smoke have subsided you are left with the scent of sweet luxurious vanilla on a bed of dark chocolate. SDV is beautifully balanced between sweet and smokiness, plus it’s probably liable to get you a little buzzed too.
Spiritueuse has amazing endurance and sillage, I would wear this all day and could still smell it lingering on my skin the next morning. The bottle really ought to come with a warning label or at least a seal of potency; its opening is heavy with the scent of booze, enough to sweep me off my feet at times.
Overall a decadent and expensive perfume that is unavailable anywhere but France, there are alternatives such as Eau Des Missions Cologne by Le Couvent des Minimes; although that one is a bit sweet and not as earthy or wholesome. Spiritueuse is worth a try in my opinion, its cult following makes it almost mythical.
Vienna.Pink
ma_mi_shytka_89 – :
Should be an extrait for that price!
шатун – :
Straight from the mouths at the Boutique in Paris where it available: It is a special edition bottle only.
The following is from Msr Guerlain’s page and is the same information that was given to my friend at the Boutique today.
COLOURED QUADRILOBE BOTTLES
As a counterpart of the coloured 125 ml bee bottles at the new Guerlain Parfumeur boutique in Paris, Maison Guerlain now offers a selection of five coloured quadrilobe bottles, equally in the 125 ml size.
The bottles are made for existing EdP fragrances from the Exclusive lines. Purple: Parfum du 68. Green: Santal Royal. Orange: Spiritueuse Double Vanille. Red: Oriental Brûlant. Blue: L’Heure de Nuit. Priced at 640 €, they are more than twice as expensive as the coloured bee bottles.
They will only be available at the Paris Boutique, as are the ‘new’ 125 ml Bee Bottles which are available in 8 colors and 18 different fragrances of varying concentrations to be filled from urns in the Boutique.
(Fragrantica listing it as a “new” fragrance is simply an error. )
лысый – :
I believe this is a special edition bottle, juice unchanged.
immoncist – :
Very confusing, Fragrantica! Is this an extrait, or the same edp but in new packaging??
Weellotusem – :
“This is an new fragrance. Spiriteuse Double Vanille was launched in 2016.” Wonder what they mean by that? Also interested in the quadrilobe presentation – is this a parfum?