The flower and the fragrance

Can ever pluck the pages of history from Caron, whose fragrances are so many chapters, so many milestones, whispers of legend …

A mythical perfume the house is the famous Black Narcissus, a title referring to the flowers of course, and their mythology: get lost in the bottle is there a risk?

There is in that name in 1911 a call to adventure, to the exoticism of a hunt in virgin forest, where we find such an orchid, the petals of a rarity ebony like a jewel

Collection bottle and packaging Chinese

There is a desire sensual and precious Daltroff when Ernest and his wife created this fragrance, presented in the setting of the bottle cap carved inkstand, inspired by Art Nouveau carved into flower petals black modern for its time.

retail cap

Black Narcissus is a success.

A few years later, founded the Daltroff Caron Corporation, and unwittingly gives new impetus to this perfume.

Baccarat crystal: Retail Store New York

Enthusiasm for the House in the New World is such that years later, in 1950, Gloria Swanson requires that perfumes the entire plateau Film Sunset Boulevard, and comes to launching a languorous “Black Narcissus“ in a sceneeven said film.

Gloria Swanson

Sometimes just a little nothing of a murmur, which becomes a myth, well, Marylin years later confessed to sleep naked in number 5 …

What about the smell of this perfume?

A floral-fruity, oriental vanilla?

Perhaps two or more … Only the wearer can decide.

I give you its composition:

Ingredients

The top note

Orange, bergamot, petitgrain, lemon

The heart note

Black Narcissus Persian jasmine, rose, orange blossom, daffodil

The base note

Civet, musk, sandalwood

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