Sylvaine Delacourte On Habit Rouge

“You know, Jean-Paul Guerlain doesn’t like Habit Rouge. He hates it. For him, it’s a bad memory. It was the first oriental for men and when he launched it, his uncle, the boss, said to him, ‘What have you done? What you’ve created is a fragrance for women, not for men! Men don’t wear perfumes like Habit Rouge.’ So Jean-Paul Guerlain was obliged to make something less sweet: Habit Rouge Dry. It was a disaster. He had a lot of problems with it, because at the beginning, it was not successful. Little by little, it became successful. But at the beginning, he had so many complaints from his uncle, that for him, ‘Habit Rouge‘ equals ‘problems’. He used to wear Vetiver, which is the opposite of Habit Rouge. If you wear Vetiver, then you don’t wear Habit Rouge. It’s rare to wear both.”

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