The pinnacle of an unforgettable journey
Après l'Ondée is a perfume composed by Jacques Guerlain and adored since 1906 for its rare flowery delicacies, its instant emotion, its floral and airy grace. Après l'Ondée is considered one of the perfumed masterpieces of the Guerlain house.
After the Ondée or when Guerlain paints perfumes to better retain the moment
Little known today to the general public, Après l'Ondée is a benchmark in modern perfumery for all connoisseurs of this art. However, this marvelous perfume has the sole ambition of painting "an olfactory picture of a country landscape once again bathed in the rays of the sun, just after the rain" as Jacques Guerlain affirmed.
A simple dream but a grandiose achievement by a "painter" of perfumery who exercises his talents both in the selection of natural raw materials of choice and in the sublimation of synthetic notes still unheard of in perfume, such as anisic aldehyde , heliotropin or even ionones.
Thanks to Aimé Guerlain and his famous Jicky released a few years earlier, perfumery now dares to portray atmospheres and stories to us. Sometimes it is an impossible love story, sometimes quite simply the magic of an instant, which moreover will become the signature of the perfumes that Jacques Guerlain will later sign such as L'Heure Bleue, another great perfume-emotion.
As Sylvaine Delacourte nose Guerlain describes: “It is a perfume [Après l'Ondée] full of nuances, delicacy, in communion with the elements of the earth, a perfume that celebrates fine weather after the rain, a perfume that makes you want to walk barefoot in the grass. "
After the Ondée a floral fragrance composed like an ode to nature
The original Après l'Ondée bottle was inspired by the love of the famous Marie-Antoinette for very "country" basketwork and therefore appears in the glass of precious ornaments. As for the clover cap, it simply symbolizes the flower of the fields. Today Après L'Ondée is presented in the traditional bee bottle of Guerlain's first great success, Eau de Cologne Impériale.
The top notes are fresh and tangy thanks to lemon and bergamot, sprinkled with the aniseed and slightly exotic delicacy of neroli flower. At the heart it is violet, carnation and hawthorn which offer their precious scents in contrast with the powdery notes of overdosed iris root. The iris, present in quantity, moreover leads one to think that After the Ripple would be an “iris wet with dew pearls”. 2The oregano accord (in common with the future Heure Bleue), embellished with a few cloves, prolongs the freshness and the bewitching fragrance of the lovely mimosa. Finally, this bucolic walk ends in a wake of heliotrope, vanilla and benzoin reminding us that the Guerlinade was subsequently developed by the same perfumer.
“Guerlain creations each have their own history and sometimes have great similarities. This is the case with Après l'Ondée and L'Heure Bleue, two landscape scents that draw their inspiration from the beauty of a moment and a photograph of nature. If Après l'Ondée were a painting it would be a delightful and colorful watercolor of the future Blue Hour.