Après L'Ondée Eau de Toilette
The original Après L'Ondée, from 1906, is one of Guerlain's most beloved ghosts — a violet fragrance built to smell like rain-soaked earth.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 2 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Iris90
- Vanilla40
The note pyramid
- Blackcurrant
- Anise
- Powdery Notes
- Violet
- Carnation
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readThe original Après L'Ondée, from 1906, is one of Guerlain's most beloved ghosts — a violet fragrance built to smell like rain-soaked earth. This 2021 reinterpretation by Thierry Wasser and Sylvaine Delacourte preserves that quality while modernizing the construction. Anise and blackcurrant open with an unusual cool-tart freshness before the signature accord takes over: violet against powdery iris, carnation adding a faintly spiced edge to keep the powder from cloying. The drydown settles into vanilla-warmed iris, quiet and skin-close. It wears at intimate distance, barely announced, asking you to lean in. The mood is overcast gardens after a summer shower — grey light, wet stone, linen.
Scent twins
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