Cruel Gardénia is a delightful trap. Bewitching and almost hypnotic, the gardenia flower reveals a startling sweetness.
The gardenia accord is imbued with ylang ylang and charmed by enveloping musks. This vaporous aura bestows the fragrance with a tenderness that tugs at the heartstrings.
Gardenia, usually so sultry and opulent, becomes ensnared in dangerously sweet musks. Out of this sensual bodily encounter, the flower emerges deliciously cruel.
"If it were a poetry collection, The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire."
A genuine Flower of Evil, Cruel Gardénia has that same devastating allure as the writings of Baudelaire. His collections were among the favourite texts of the Guerlain Perfumers, who were particularly appreciative of the multiple olfactory references contained in his poems.