photograph courtesy of Houbigant
It’s the tenth anniversary of the “accountable restoration” of Houbigant Fougere Royale. In 2011, CaFleureBon’s editor in chief Michelyn Camen went behind the bottle with Grasp Perfumer Rodrigo Flores-Roux to study extra about his inventive course of and the way he labored “revising the unique. PLEASE READ IT HERE. First composed in 1884 by Paul Parquet Houbigant Fougere Royale, Rodrigo considers it to be the “first fashionable” perfume. What higher method to study a historic perfume and its accountable restoration then from the perfumer!
Rodrigo wrote, “The definition of a contemporary scent is about as follows: Fougere Royale is historically thought of to be the primary perfume to make use of a synthetically produced ingredient in its formulation. Within the case of Fougere Royale, it boasts a wholesome dose of coumarin. (Some sources state that it was utilized in an overdose of 50% of the full formulation) Coumarin is a white powder redolent of newly mown hay, candy almonds, tobacco and… errrrrr, some sort of ferns (‘fougere’ is the French phrase for ‘fern’…): therefore, a “fashionable” fragrance is that one which conceptually doesn’t imitate something in nature. In different phrases, we’re speaking about an “mental” or “man-made” fragrance…
So, what’s a FOUGERE? In fragrance lingo, a fougere is a kind of perfume, principally masculine (exceptions under) constructed round a primary accord of citrus (predominantly bergamot), lavender, geranium, coumarin and the earthy trio of patchouli, oak moss, and cistus resins. One factor extra, one factor much less, however that is roughly what a fougere construction encompasses. This all the time makes me assume that fougeres are in actual fact modified chypre”.
Rodrigo Flores-Roux was sort sufficient to observe up ten years later…
“It’s been 10 years since Houbigant Fougere Royale was reborn, and I nonetheless get feedback after I put on it… and members of my household asking me for refills!!! (laughs) I actually loved engaged on this mission, positively a spotlight of my profession as a perfumer”-Rodrigo Flores-Roux
Due to the generosity of Houbigant Paris we’re providing a 100 ml bottle of Fougere Royale to a registered CafleureBon reader and Smelling Nice subscriber within the USA, EU, UK (in case you are undecided in case you are registered click on right here (you should register on our website or your entry shall be invalid).
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