01 The quintessence of artistic craftsmanship
It is an encounter between métiers d’art in their rarest, most beautiful forms. The alliance of three great French houses - Bäumer, Baccarat and Guerlain - long-time friends driven by the same passion for excellence and exceptional expertise.
02 A bottle faceted like a diamond
With The Black Bee Prestige Edition, the majestic bottle imagined in 2010 by Lorenz Bäumer, is reworked for the first time in a decade. More sumptuous than ever, it is crafted for the very first time by the Ateliers Baccarat in black crystal, the most precious of all, the most difficult to fashion. A genuine crystal masterpiece with its deep black crystal body and its wings faceted like diamonds by a Meilleur Ouvrier de France.
03 Lorenz Bäumer: artist, jeweller and art lover
Trained as an engineer, a lover of the arts in all forms, an epicurean and a collector, Lorenz Baümer is first and foremost a genuine, generous, boundlessly creative artist. Between one of the greatest jewellers of the 21st century and Guerlain, collaboration came quite naturally. Indeed, the motto that drives Lorenz Bäumer, “Beauty is the promise of happiness”, could be that of the House.
“IT IS THIS CONTRAST BETWEEN THE BEE’S OPAQUE BODY AND THE DIAMOND-LIKE RADIANCE OF THE TRANSPARENT WINGS, THE WAY LIGHT CIRCULATES, JUST LIKE IN A GEM, THAT MAKES THIS OBJECT SO MAGIC.”
LORENZ BÄUMER
04 Guerlain and Baccarat, one hundred years of creative friendship
Like Guerlain, Baccarat is synonymous with matchless expertise passed on from one generation to another. And like Guerlain, the House is a true symbol of French luxury and art of living. For more than a century, Guerlain has collaborated with Baccarat, one of the first crystal-makers to produce perfume bottles in the Belle Époque. A genuine masterpiece of the art of crystal making, The Black Bee Prestige Edition marks the apogee of a collaboration anchored in history.
05 A Bee born of fire, water, air and metal
For this fabulous, entirely handcrafted piece, with its wings faceted like diamonds, the master glassmakers of the Ateliers Baccarat must master very different, opposite elements: metal, fire, and air. No fewer than 25 craftspeople at the height of their art collaborate and succeed one another in creating this piece, drawning from the quintessence of their know-hows. Its production requires a choreography, each gesture precise to a fraction an inch, executed with the utter mastery.
06 An exclusive and radiant extrait de parfum: Imagine Guerlain
This crystal masterpiece deserved an exclusive, timeless olfactory creation. An Extrait de parfum as radiant and faceted as crystal: Imagine Guerlain, the precious and vibrant fragrance conceived by Guerlain Master Perfumer Thierry Wasser. A sumptuous bouquet blending orange blossom, rose and jasmine, exalted by creamy sandalwood and vanillic powdery benzoin.
