LES LÉGENDAIRES

SAMSARA - EAU DE PARFUM

Name: LES LÉGENDAIRES
Brand: GUERLAIN
SKU: G014316
Price: 125.00 GBP
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The scent of absolute love

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The scent of absolute love

She has found harmony. She’s at one with herself and the world. She radiates with serene beauty and fulfilment. Jean-Paul Guerlain composed this distinguished woody, amber fragrance for the woman in his life who never wore perfume. Returning from travels in the East, the perfumer brought with him precious jasmine and sandalwood, sacred essences of the Gods used in temples, which he then enveloped with ylang-ylang and vanilla. Samsara, a Sanskrit word meaning "eternal rebirth", is more than a statement. It’s wildly seductive and the pure expression of an absolute love that forever embodies the scent of a true, sacred love.

A legend of sacred love, a radiant balance of jasmine and sandalwood

From the moment it takes flight, Samsara envelops with its prevalence of jasmine flowers. Sunny ylang-ylang flowers accentuate this all the more by marrying them with the generously radiant warmth of sandalwood. Finally, iris, tonka bean and vanilla enhance and unify the pairings to create a remarkable fragrance trail.

JASMINE

Jasmine grandiflorum absolute comes mainly from India. First the flowers are processed to create a concrete before being transformed into an absolute.Picked at dawn, jasmine grandiflorum, brings a green, fruity jasmine note to fragrance.

Sandalwood

Sandalwood essence comes mainly from Australia where the wood is harvested and distilled.
Sandalwood gives fragrance a woody, creamy note.

Ylang ylang

The ylang-ylang flower grows in the Comoros Islands. Too fragile to travel, it is directly transformed into essential oil via direct fire distillation.
Ylang-ylang essence is floral and sunny.

HOUSE SECRETS

THE WORD "SAMSARA" COMES FROM SANSKRIT AND REFERS TO THE CYCLE OF BIRTHS AND REBIRTHS WHICH LEAD TO NIRVANA. THIS IS AN IMPLIED REFERENCE TO SHALIMAR, WHICH ALSO TAKES ITS NAME FROM SANSKRIT.

Artwork: Darcy, Guerlain Archives, 1950

A LEGENDARY BOTTLE

Designed by Raymond Guerlain in 1912, its iconic “inverted heart” bottle is underscored with graceful scrolls typical of Art Nouveau. Its avant-garde stopper, in the form of a hollowed heart, evokes the delicate romanticism of this perfumery masterpiece and represented a real technical feat at the time.

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IN THE NAME OF BEAUTY

GUERLAIN IS COMMITTED AND TAKES ACTIONS

Since 2007, Guerlain is committed to preserving biodiversity, innovating sustainably, acting for the climate and creating a positive social impact. Above all, we seek to protect one of Nature’s most precious wonders: bees.