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The main objective of this website is to chronicle the 200+ year old history of the Guerlain fragrances and showcase the bottles and advertising used throughout the years. Let this site be your source for information on antique and vintage Guerlain perfumes. Another goal of this website is to show the present owners of the Guerlain company how much we miss many of the discontinued classics and hopefully, if they see that there is enough interest and demand, they will bring back these fragrances!
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Attrape Coeur: (Heart Catcher) This fragrance was first released as a limited edition in 1999 under the name of Guet-Apens (Ambush).
Over the years it has gone through several incarnations:
- 1999 Guet Apens
- 2002 No.68
- 2005 Attrape Cœur eau de toilette
- 2007 Vol de Nuit Evasion
- 2014 Royal Extract
Fragrance Composition:
So what does it smell like? It is classified as an ambery floral fragrance for women.
- Top notes: peach and cinnamon
- Middle notes: jasmine, rose, violet, iris, tuberose
- Base notes: orris, vanilla, musk, leather, sandalwood, amber and oakmoss
Bottles:
Presented in a white bee bottle, part of the Les Parisiennes line.
Fate of the Fragrance:
Discontinued in 2010.
Guet-Apens: created in 1999 by Mathilde Laurent, as a limited edition.
Fragrance Composition:
So what does it smell like? It is classified as a chypre fruity fragrance for women.
- Top notes: jasmine, tuberose, violet
- Middle notes: peach, rose
- Base notes: amber, musk, vetiver and vanilla
Bottle:
Presented in the 4 oz Lanterne flacon (eau de parfum).
Fate of the Fragrance:
Guet-Apens (discontinued), then reissued in 2002 as No.68 (discontinued), then reorchestrated and renamed Attrape Cœur in 2005 (discontinued) , then renamed and relaunched as Vol de Nuit Evasion in 2007 (discontinued), then launched again in 2014 as Royal Extract.
Vol de Nuit Evasion: created by Mathilde Laurent.in 2007 in cooperation with Alea, the chain of airport duty free shops, and it can only be purchased at the Alea stores in France and Great Britain, as well as the Guerlain boutiques.
“Vol de Nuit EVASION, a nomadic homage to a classic scent from Guerlain.
A special creation reserved for travel retail, Vol de Nuit Evasion tells ‘the tale of a nocturnal evasion, a few hours of an internal adventure, an airy, olfactory bridge between fiction and reality’. A sweet scent of amber and woods that, like the logo on the midnight-blue packaging, diffuses a soft, warm light in the darkness. Find it at selected airport perfume counters and Guerlain boutiques. A fragrance with a sweet opening of rose and peach, evolving towards waves of jasmine and iris. The oriental trail is warmed with woods, amber and vanilla.”
