Sometimes you can be shaken by a simple bit of reading and everything changes. For Annick Goutal, it was Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar, one summer, in Italy. Beyond just a memory, this fragrance contains an entire countryside illuminated by the Tuscan sun, a cocktail of bright citrus, a perfume of delightful freshness, discretely elegant and incredibly modern. It is the timeless Eau d’Hadrien, the first great success of the House.