The Perfumes
Fougère Royale – 1885
Lavender/”new mown hay” – masculine
Houbigant created Fougère Royale in the year Victor Hugo died, D. H. Lawrence was
born and the first sky-scraper was erected in Chicago.
Timeline
Émile Zola published “Germinal” and de
Maupassant “Bel Ami”. Vincent Van Gogh painted “The Potato Eaters” and “The
Weaver”, and Cézanne “The Card Players”.
In Germany, Nietzsche was giving us
“Also Spracht Zarethustra”. It was the year of the Conference of Berline, and
the year after Modigliani was born. It was also the year before the death of
Franz Liszt. Karl Marx had been dead for two years, so had Manet, Wagner and
Turgenev. Kafka was two years old, so was Utrillo: [in the wake of Elizabeth
Siddal Rosetti who had set the precedent] his mother, Suzanne Valadon was
posing for painters for a few francs an hour and dabbling with occasional
canvas of her own, while Grandmother was keeping the baby quiet by giving him a
taste for cognac.
The twenty-one year old Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec came into sufficient money to set up a studio in Montmartre,
and started to frequent the circus and the music-hall. Virginia Woolf, as yet
unaware of her own privilege, was bowling her hoop in a Londn park, James Joyce
was making sand-castles: a Jesuit education yet to come.
Chantilly - 1941
Powdery floral
The nose behind this fragrance was Paul
Parquet. Top notes neroli, bergamot and lemon; middle notes are spices,
carnation, jasmine, ylang-ylang, rose and orange blossom; base notes are
leather, tonka bean, musk, benzoin, oakmoss, vanilla and sandalwood.
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Sally Blake
Unfinished
Date Unknown
