My Favourite Fragrances - "Après L'ondée" by Guerlain

Fragrance has to touch you. It has to make you look inside yourself and comfort you. It has to work like a healer: soothing and the effect of a drug. It has to be your closest friend, embracing you and whispering gentle and sweet words that make you smile. Fragrance has to be the second you, it's characteristics depending on your personality: sweet, tender, hard, provocative, experimental, emotional, nostalgic, ... . Fragrances are remembrances, they don't last forever but they make you dream about the future, think about a certain person on occasion or your childhood. Our nose registers all the time the olfactive impressions that surround us, but most of us do eliminate the impressions by not doing anything with it... .

The first fragrance that touched me so deep and brought me back to my childhood was "Après L'ondée" from Guerlain.
It's innocence, depth an pureness evokes the most soothing and comforting effects on me. I did feel back again like I was a child, playing in our very big garden, not to worry about anything.

Après L'ondée was created by Jacques Guerlain in 1906. It is a beautiful, delicate combination of orange blossom and violet, with spicy anise note. Smell of a spring-time garden after a downpour, smell of wet leaves and flowers warmed by the sunshine. The heart is composed of spicy carnation and violet, not traditionally sweet in this composition. The base notes include luxurious iris and soft vanilla touch.

 to be continued...