29.1 À L'heure des Catleyas - eau de parfum
Get to know the newest addition to Theme 29, ‘Hesperimental’, and the Pierre Guillaume's first floral amber citrusy fragrance: 29.1 À L'heure des Catleyas. A sunny and sensual fragrance, perfect for summer!
In Marcel Proust’s universe, “to do Catleyas” becomes a metaphor for love, for those intimate, timeless moments when sensual memory shapes desire. “À l’heure des Catleyas” captures that suspended instant — the scent of sun‑kissed skin still damp with sea water, blending with tropical flowers and the golden light of a summer afternoon. It is a perfume about tenderness, memory, and discreet eroticism.
The fragrance opens with a burst of luminous citrus notes, before melting into an exuberant heart where Catleya, Tiare, and Sugi Wood blossom in a voluptuous embrace. The warm and caressing base notes combine tonka bean, warm sand, and musk, leaving a delicate and captivating trail on the skin.
The name
The expression ‘faire catleya’ or ‘arranger les catleyas’ is a way of referring to lovemaking used by Odette and Swann in Marcel Proust’s novel ‘In Search of Lost Time’. Symbolising romantic encounters and olfactory memory, this title, imbued with sensuality and nostalgia, reinvents Proustian romanticism in the light of a contemporary summer. For Pierre Guillaume, it becomes a tribute to skin, flowers and suspended time.
Lemon, Orchid, Tiaré, Sugi wood, Tonka beans, Hot sand accord, Musk
Alcohol, Parfum (Fragrance), Aqua (Water/ Eau), Glycerin, Tetramethyl acetyloctahydro-naphthalenes, Limonene, Citrus Aurantium Peel Oil, Trimethyl-benzenepropanol, Vanillin, Citronellol, Dimethyl Phenethyl Acetate, Coumarin, Pelargonium Graveolens Flower Oil, Rose ketones, Pinene, Linalool, Geraniol, Acetylcedrene, Terpineol, Citral, Amyl cinnamal, beta-Caryophyllene.
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Amber
The amber fragrance family contains warm, spicy and often sensual perfume notes. Classic amber fragrances are built around an amber accord, often consisting of patchouli, benzoin, labdanum, vanilla and musk. Also, amber can refer to natural ambergris or synthetic amber, such as Ambrox or Ambroxan.
Pierre Guillaume
When he was just 25 years old, Pierre Guillaume launched his first perfume called Cozé. Chandler Burr, renowned and respected perfume critic, described this fragrance as 'the coolest of new European fragrances from a young French chemist'. That was the beginning of his career and his own perfume house: Parfumerie Générale, which is now called Pierre Guillaume. Pierre Guillaume uses innovative processes to create fragrances. You can recognize his personal style in his perfumes, with high-quality scents that remain perceptible on the skin for a long time without overpowering.