About Guerlain
Guerlain is unique among its great French rivals in that it began its life and continued its focus as a house of perfume and cosmetics, rather than being a fashion house that branched into beauty products. In 1828 Pierre Guerlain opened for business creating individual fragrances for each customer and rapidly gained a reputation for his unique style based on vanilla and amber notes that invoked a sense of fine confectionery and came to be known as "Guerlinade". The success of the house was sealed when its fragrances became highly sought after by European royalty including Queen Victoria of England and Queen Isabella of Spain. Pierre's sons Aime and Gabriel inherited the business and drove it to new heights with innovative perfumes such as Fleur d'Italie (1884), Rococco (1887) and Jicky (1889).