THE LEADING skincare, perfume and beauty brand Guerlain has just announced their festive season collaboration, Beelieve In Fantasy, with esteemed jeweller Begüm Khan.
The Turkish jeweller brings a unique perspective to the brand as she pays homage to the Guerlain’s house symbol, the bee. Each product is created from fine materials and exhibits a fantasy world of unique animals.
The brand offers beautifully packaged gift sets to purchase for loved ones alongside advent calendars, hiding various iconic Guerlain products behind its doors. This gift allows its receiver to enjoy products ranging from candles to perfumable ceramics to skincare and beauty.
Guerlain Christmas 2023 with Begüm Khan
As for make-up, the luxurious Jewel lipstick case is reimagined into two new styles, Glittery Tiger, featuring velvet tiger stripes with holographic highlights and the Feline Fantasy in black and green leopard print. The cases house three shades of N°234 Roaring Red, N°521 Flamingo Pink and N°41 Untamed Garnet (£32 each).
An eye shadow palette quad titled 879 Glittery Tiger Ombres G (£68), is also embellished with the velvet tiger print and the inside displays four rich colours of shimmering gold, a sophisticated green, satin pink and a deep purple — colours suitable for the festive season.
The brand also reinterprets the esteemed 03 Terracotta bronzer (£46) in this collection with a newly designed casing featuring an exclusive leopard pattern sprayed with gold.
Another best-seller artistically redesigned in line with the Christmas collection’s thematics is the 2 Light Météorite displayed in a refined case of black and green, demonstrating a tortoise scale-like outline. The Météorites Fierce Glow (£54) will be available under limited supply over the festive season.
Guerlain Christmas 2023 with Begüm Khan
The collection expands into artfully crafted perfume bottles and lipstick cases featuring the house’s symbolic bee and various animals.
The Rouge G Fantasy Bee gift set (£800) displays a festive lipstick case featuring a jewelled bee embedded with 280 hand-placed gems, carefully created by Khan in her atelier in Turkey.
The lipsticks come in the shades 880 Ruby Red, the satin 03 Light Rosewood and 214 Brick Red. The lipsticks are placed into a beautiful box of green and black, featuring the repeated leopard print pattern.
Guerlain Christmas 2023 with Begüm Khan
Begüm Khan also designed the Bee Bottle perfume, titled Imagine Guerlain 2023 Millésime by Begüm Khan (£830), showcasing an imperial bee on a flower at the centre of its structure crafted from 24-carat gold-plated bronze.
Together, the bee and flower demonstrate a charming aura, and the bee displays 37 shimmering hand-set paved gems. The perfume exudes scents of citrus orange and floral notes with hints of woodiness.
The Bee Bottle by Begüm Khan (£9,500) is another take on the iconic bottle and showcases a beetle sitting on the one-litre container. Surrounding it are countless crystals displaying a rosette.
As for the finalising items, the L’Art and La Matière Jewellery Plates (£110 each) display the Maison’s symbolic bee amongst some of Khan’s favourite animals, including the beetle, the tortoise, the frog, and the tiger, all representing significant qualities.
Each plate is intricately paved with hundreds of gems in various hues and honours the magic that has propelled Guerlain throughout its steady success.
by Nicole Pereira
Discover the collection here