Après l'Ondée translates to “after the spring showers” and was created by Jacques Guerlain in 1906.

It was inspired by the moment the rain stops after a spring shower— that moment when the sound of the rain wanes, the sky clears, and a soft warm light breaks through the wet leaves and branches of trees and shrubs. The earth smells warm and damp. Wet leaves, grass, and flowers are revived, their tender fragrance captured in this bottle.

Après l'Ondée opens with a note of sunny lemon, bright bergamot, and fresh, sparkling neroli. The citrus notes are cradled by a sweet, floral note of licorice-tinged aniseed. The aniseed is a unifier that enhances the elegance of bergamot and the green facet of the neroli, that gives Après l'Ondée a haunting, tender start that opens up to a bouquet of lovely flowers: delicate, sweet orange blossom, soft, powdery violet and rosy, spicy carnation. The carnation has a heliotropin facet that’s powdery with a whisper of almond. A note of powdery, almondy mimosa bolsters the heliotropin as honey-sweet hawthorn anchors the flowers with a whisper of its dirty animalic aspect. It all sits on a base of sensuous vanilla, benzoin that smells of vanilla, almond, and licorice, iris root that smells of violet with hints of herbs and licorice. Heliotrope is smooth, sweet, with a touch of vanilla. It’s joined by woody, creamy sandalwood which reinforces the powdery notes.

Notes: Lemon, bergamot, neroli, carnation, violet, mimosa, vanilla, benzoin, iris root, heliotrope and sandalwood.