What happens when Gatineau’s Parisian skincare expertise meets a QVC pick of the month?  You get the ultimate skincare upgrade: Collagene Expert™ Hydra Essence Night Recovery in a bold, supersized edition at more than double the usual size.

This isn’t just about hydration; it’s about a complete night-time reset. This intensely replenishing essence has been designed to flood your skin with moisture, restore elasticity and improve firmness while you sleep so that you wake up to skin that looks stronger, smoother, and seriously revived. Never used an essence before? You’re about to find out why this low-key powerhouse deserves a permanent spot in your routine.

What is an essence and is it actually essential?

Sitting in between a toner and a serum, an essence is the quiet upgrade your routine didn’t know it needed. Lightweight in texture but high impact in performance, it delivers a concentrated surge of hydration that preps your skin and elevates everything that follows.

No heaviness, no complexity, just fast-absorbing moisture that gets straight to work beneath the surface. It softens, smooths, and reawakens your skin from the very first application and you’ll feel it almost instantly as skin looks plumper, fresher, and visibly alive. Essences don’t just complement your routine, they run it - prepping, priming, and amplifying, allowing your serums to perform at their best and your moisturiser to go further. And once you see the difference, it becomes non-negotiable.

Why should you use both Collagene Expert™ Hydra Essence and Collagene Expert™ Hydra Essence Night Recovery in your routine?

Your skin doesn’t behave the same way at night as it does during the day and your routine shouldn’t either. While daytime skincare is all about protection (think hydration, barrier support, defending against environmental stress), nighttime is when your skin switches into repair mode. As you sleep, it works harder to regenerate, rebuild, and recover from everything it’s been exposed to. That’s where a dedicated night essence comes in. Collagene Expert™ Hydra Essence Night Recovery is designed to support this natural renewal process, delivering deeper hydration and targeted ingredients that help improve elasticity, firmness, and overall skin resilience while you rest. In short, your day essence helps you face the world, your night essence helps your skin recover from it.

What makes Collagene Expert™ Hydra Essence Night Recovery so special?

This ultra-quenching formula melts straight in, delivering clinically proven 24-hour hydration that plumps, smooths, and resets your skin while you switch off. Infused with a curated blend of industry-loved actives, this essence is designed with a low molecular weight, so it sinks in fast delivering instant results with long-term impact.

At the heart of the formula is the latest breakthrough in skin science: Nephoria™, derived from the leaves of the rambutan tree, this is a next-generation bio-retinol alternative that brings powerful age-defying benefits without the harshness of traditional retinol. This sustainably sourced botanical active works overnight to support skin’s natural renewal process, helping to improve elasticity, boost firmness, and smooth the appearance of fine lines while you sleep. By encouraging a more resilient skin structure, it helps restore a fresher, more lifted complexion over time all while remaining gentle and skin friendly. It’s intelligent plant-powered skincare that delivers retinol-like results, with a softer, more comforting approach.

With the addition of Tetrapeptide-5, this powerful four-amino-acid peptide helps defend collagen and elastin fibres against glycation, one of the key drivers of skin ageing. Glycation happens when sugars bind to proteins in the skin, triggering a reaction that produces damaging compounds which weaken the collagen-elastin network responsible for firmness and bounce. By helping protect these vital structural fibres, Tetrapeptide-5 supports a stronger, more resilient, youthfully lifted complexion.

Built for dehydrated, thirsty skin, the formula is supercharged with a 24-hour hydration complex combining skin-identical Natural Moisturising Factors with Hyaluronic Acid, the ultimate glow-giving hydrator. Naturally present in the skin from birth, Hyaluronic Acid acts like a moisture magnet, holding up to 1,000 times its weight in water. It’s a key reason youthful skin looks so plump and dewy, but levels decline over time, making replenishment essential for maintaining hydration, elasticity, and bounce.

To take things further, the powerhouse pairing of Vitamin C and Niacinamide works in synergy to transform skin tone and texture. Niacinamide strengthens the barrier, calms, and evens, while Vitamin C brightens, targets pigmentation, and supports collagen production for a visibly more radiant, refined complexion.

And then the true ‘icing on the cake’ falls with the blend of Ceramides which seals the deal. These skin-identical lipids work to reinforce the skin barrier, locking in moisture and helping to protect everything the formula has just delivered. Think of them as the final layer of defence cushioning, strengthening, and preventing hydration from slipping away overnight.

And because night-time skincare should feel as good as it works, the soft blend of bergamot, lychee, rose, and musk sets the mood - calm, elevated, undone in the best way.

What does this translate to in actual results?

This is where skin begins to transform. Collagen and elastin are supported to help reinforce skin’s natural structure, improving firmness and resilience over time. Dehydration and imbalance are visibly corrected as skin is plumped, smoothed, and rebalanced, restoring a more refined surface. Fine lines and wrinkles appear softened and less pronounced with continued use. A sustained surge of intensive hydration keeps skin comforted and cushioned long after application, helping maintain a healthy, supple feel. By morning, skin looks noticeably refreshed and pillow-soft to the touch, visibly brighter, and left with a naturally youthful, well-rested glow.

And once it becomes part of your routine, it’s hard to imagine being without it. The difference in how your skin looks and feels is immediate, but it’s the long-term transformation that makes it feel less like an optional step and more like the one you don’t EVER want to skip.

And that’s exactly why we’re supersizing it for May, because once your skin knows this level of performance, there’s no going back. We’re giving you a full 6 months of high-performance, ultra-targeted nighttime skincare, distilled into one seriously considered edit built to work hard while you switch off. And instead of running out too soon, or rationing results, you get the full experience. Fully loaded. Fully committed. Six months of uninterrupted skin transformation in one drop.

Lucy x