Talk:Guerlain

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Style

The recent perfume reformulations by of the managers of Guerlain seems have caused many of their fans much grief. But please do note that the contributors of the article (many of which ARE fans of Guerlain's creation) should try to be less opinionated and more objective in their writing. In otherwords: More Wikipedia, less blog/flame. Sjschen 04:04, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. No-one doubts Guerlain's importance on the perfume circuit; but the style drifts in places into hype. Tearlach 10:59, 10 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Pronunciation?

It would be nice if a pronunciation guide was included in this entry. Is it "ger-LANE", "ur-LAHN", "JUR-lahn"? --68.103.154.140 05:40, 8 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I believe it's GAERlahn, GAER is sorta like in GARry Sjschen 03:18, 10 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

A fairly good English approximation would be "Gair" (rhymes with "hair") + "lan" (rhymes with "pan").--Shirt58 (talk) 00:57, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Météorites?

The article says, in the section on products:

Since its foundation in 1828 Guerlain has created over 300 fragrances. A non-exhaustive list is as follows:

and then includes, among others, "Météorites". But I think Météorites is not a fragrance, but a face powder; cursory web search confirms this. This suggests that, at least, the introduction of the "products" section should be rewritten. I do not have enough expertise to do this. —Dominus (talk) 14:32, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Météorites is a perfume, it was created after the big success of the powder with the same name and the same fragrance.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.207.24.115 (talk) 22:49, 18 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Racist Remarks

The correct English translation of "negres" in this context is "nigger", not "negro". See http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/24/guerlain-racism-legal-action , http://www.english.rfi.fr/france/20101016-guerlain-heir-racism-storm as well as http://www.theroot.com/buzz/french-perfumer-guerlain-drops-n-word-causes-scandale-0

It is important to faithfully translate the phrase, because aside from accuracy, English speaking readers will not understand the gravity and offensiveness of what he said. Sociologik (talk) 21:18, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Why is this incident, which although made while the man was no longer on paid salary apparently cost the company a lot of good will and money, no longer mentioned in the article? (http://www.france24.com/en/20120329-jean-paul-guerlain-cosmetics-france-perfume-racism, http://www.france24.com/en/20120328-france-famed-perfumist-guerlain-faces-ruling-racist-commentsparis-court. At least at the time, there were planned legal actions against the company, not just the man: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/24/guerlain-racism-legal-action; http://www.theluxechronicles.com/the_luxe_chronicles/2010/10/luxury-silence-speaks-volumes.html).Kdammers (talk) 02:48, 17 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Among the oldest in the world"

Interesting (and perhaps questionable) thing to include in the first sentence. Not exactly a contemporary of the perfume houses mentioned in the first paragraph here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creed_%28perfume%29 86.143.84.199 (talk) 01:37, 2 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

It's not really a questionable statement. Creed was a tailoring house; despite its claims otherwise, there is no evidence thtat it released fragrances until the late 1970s at the earliest. Guerlain has been established since 1828 and is among the oldest continuously operating perfume companies in the world. Mole2 (talk) 17:34, 16 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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