Since the 19th century, it has been the emblem of the Guerlain house.
The bee decorates the glass bottles with the most precious perfumes.
The first of these was fashioned for the Eau de Cologne Impériale imagined in 1853 for Empress Eugenie, and the youngest beautifully named Aqua Allegoria Nettare di Sole harbors a honey trail of bright white flowers.
Recently, the hymenoptera even inspired the Abeille Royale anti-aging skincare range, formulated with honey collected in the beehives of the island of Ouessant, off the coast of Brittany.
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Ouessant bees and Guerlain honey
It is in this preserved ecosystem, classified as a Biosphere Reserve by Unesco, that a small and stocky black bee produces a repairing honey particularly rich in amino acids, activators of collagen, calcium, magnesium, trace elements and therefore able to fight against wrinkles, these little scars of time.
“The line was launched in 2010 and that's when the house got involved in the protection of bees, through
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