L'Air du Temps
Few fragrances carry the weight of L'Air du Temps — a postwar release that became shorthand for romance itself.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 3 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.
- Iris55
- Rose50
- Amber40
The note pyramid
- Rosewood
- Neroli
- Neroli
- Peach
- Peach
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readFew fragrances carry the weight of L'Air du Temps — a postwar release that became shorthand for romance itself. Bergamot and neroli open with controlled brightness, peach adding warmth before the floral heart assembles: jasmine, gardenia, violet, and ylang-ylang arranged with a formal 1940s symmetry. Rosemary adds an herbal thread that prevents the florals from collapsing into sweetness.
The base is a classic chypre structure — oakmoss, vetiver, sandalwood, and iris arriving in measured sequence. Amber and benzoin hold the whole against skin for hours. It wears like a photograph of emotion: structured, deliberate, and still moving.
Recent coverage
- launch · Now Smell This · May 22, 2026
Nina Ricci L’Air du Temps White Orchid Edition ~ new fragrance
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- other · Undina's Looking Glass · Apr 21, 2026
L’Air du Temps vintage extrait by Nina Ricci
Hellooooo Crew. Today I wanted to chat with you about a historic fragrance that seems to be long forgotten to the modern perfume community. L’Air du Temps was created for Nina Ricci by perfumer Fabrice Fabron with her son Robert, released in 1948 after WWII with a doves symbolizi
- other · The Perfume Room · Mar 24, 2026
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Scent twins
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