L'ASTRE

AVA GARDNER'S PERSONAL PERFUME

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A large, exuberant, well-endowed and magnetic floral. Its catchphrase is made of aphrodisiac spices to symbolize the burning gaze and maddening beauty of Ava Gardner. Then white flowers explode: jasmine, ylang-ylang, tuberose, orange blossom, lingering in the roundness and warmth of amber. An elixir of opulence that sweeps away inhibitions and abolishes hesitations. A perfume that seeks - and certainly finds - the most complete attention.


In the 1950's, Ava Gardner met the perfumer and owner of Le Galion, Paul Vacher, who - understandably dazzled - asked her to become the ambassador and the face of Sortilège, a classic Le Galion fragrance. After its incredible success in the USA, the actress asked Paul Vacher to compose a tailor-made fragrance just for her. The perfumer, valuing distinction and femininity, obliged and the personal Ava Gardner perfume would become L'Astre, several decades later. In 2023, Le Galion launched L'Astre, a contemporary rewrite of a formula that has remained private for decades. Working in collaboration with the Estate of Ava Gardner and her heirs who offer access to their archives, L'Astre captures and symbolizes the brilliance ofthese two great names of the 20th century, both of whose influence continues today.

Olfactive Information

Floral spicy amber

Top Notes: Red ginger, clementine, cardamom, cinnamon, coriander, and pimento berry

Heart Notes: Jasmine, ylang-ylang, tuberose, and orange blossom

Base Notes: Amber accord, vanilla, benzoin, tonka bean, and suede leather

Ingredients (INCI)

alcohol denat., parfum (fragrance), aqua (water), linalool, Limonene, hydroxycitronellal, benzyl benzoate, citronellol, farnesol, alpha-isomethylionone, geraniol, eugenol, coumarin, citral, benzyl alcohol , benzyl Salicylate, isoeugenol, cinnamal, benzyl cinnamate, cinnamyl alcohol

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« I worked on a spectacular floral accord - especially white flowers - and generously spicy, to underline Ava’s impressive aura and wink at the grand bouquets of that era. This number of seduction continues in the amber background, warm, enveloping and in my opinion borderline licentious… »

Rodrigo Flores-Roux

Parfumeur of L'ASTRE