Utterly delicious, the Guerlain L’Art & La Matière Pêche Mirage is a fragrance inspired by the works of visual artist Charles Petillon. Like a mirage, his structure of white balloons are a perfect allegory for this trail.

The avant-garde perfumer Jacques Guerlain sublimated the peach in 1919 with Mitsouko, using synthetic molecules to recreate the olfaction of the fruit. More than a hundred years later, Delphine Jelk introduces into her composition a synthetic note from chemistry to give the fruit pride of place in Pêche Mirage.

“If Pêche Mirage were a sculpture, it would be an invasion of balloons by Charles Petillon,” said Delphine Jelk, Guerlain Perfume Creation Director and Perfumer.

The fragrance is an ode to captivating fruity notes. Spicy notes of juicy peach burst alongside a bold duo of saffron and blackcurrant, softened by osmanthus flower and rounded out by sandalwood, amber and leather. At the heart of the fragrance, the tension between the fruit and the leather notes becomes palpable, as sensual as a second skin. It unfolds into an intense and enveloping trail in which the sandalwood and the amber tincture warm up the leathery notes.

The fragrance is available online at Guerlain.com and at Guerlain counters February, 2025.