[1] Raymond Guerlain designed the bottle for Shalimar, which was modeled after the basins of eastern gardens and Mongolian stupa art.

[9] As of 2017, Shalimar was Guerlain's second best selling fragrance, behind La Petite Robe Noire, with approximately 108 bottles being sold every hour.

[1] The fragrance contains notes of bergamot, lemon, iris, jasmine, rose, patchouli, vetiver, opopanax, tonka bean, frankincense, sandalwood, musk, civet, ambergris, leather, and vanilla.

[13] The advertisement was directed by Bruno Aveillan and featured music by Hans Zimmer that had been originally composed for The Da Vinci Code.

[16] In the song "Madame George" from his 1968 album Astral Weeks, Van Morrison sings, "of sweet perfume...like Shalimar."

[25] In an episode of Orange Is the New Black (S1:E6 "WAC Pack"), Nicky describes Piper as smelling of Shalimar after she receives a hug from her mother during visitation.

In season 3 episode 10 of Love, Mickey (Gillian Jacobs) tells her boyfriend Gus (Paul Rust) that his childhood home smells like "laundry detergent, ham, and Shalimar."

In season 5 episode 11 of American Horror Story, while pouring herself a drink, the Countess realizes that Ramona Royale has entered her suite behind her back.

In the novel "War Cry, by Wilbur Smith (with David Churchill), Saffron is caught attempting to descend the Cresta Run in St. Moritz (for male skiers only) due to her forgetting that she had used the perfume Shalimar following her morning shower.

In the novel Angel of Baker Street, by Catherine Bell, Olivia always pictures her mother in her mind whenever she caught a hint of the perfume.

In 1991, Louise Bourgeois created Cell II, a work of art which featured multiple empty and nearly-empty bottles of Shalimar on top of a mirrored table and next to a sculpture of wringing hands.

In the 2018 novel Lethal White by Robert Galbraith, the private detective, Cormoran Strike about his ex girlfriend, Charlotte "...could smell what he knew to be Shalimar on her skin.