"Inspired by the passionate love story between an emperor and an Indian princess, Shalimar, which means ""temple of love"" in Sanskrit, symbolises the promise of eternal love forevermore. It is a fragrance of desire. With its smouldering and slightly impertinent character, the star oriental fragrance in perfumery embodies skin-caressing sensuality with a hint of the forbidden. ""Wearing Shalimar means letting your senses take over,"" Jacques Guerlain would say.