Thursday 30 August 2012
Monday 27 August 2012
Saturday 25 August 2012
La Rose Jacqueminot
Story behind Coty"s ‘La Rose Jacqueminot’
The year was 1904. The place was the Grands Magasins de Louver, a major Parisian department store. Coty had come to show his latest creation, La Rose Jacqueminot. None of his previous creations had found a market. But instead of being enthusiastic, the store's buyer was showing Coty the door — without allowing Coty to even open the bottle!
At this point Co
ty — by design or in anger — smashed his sample bottle on a counter or on the floor. Immediately the aroma of La Rose Jacqueminot filled the air ... and brought women swarming to Coty's side, asking the name of this wonderful fragrance ... and where they could buy it. (It has been suggested that Coty paid them for this enactment.)
One version of this story claims that the bottle smashed was Coty's last bottle. Another version claims that he sold his remaining sample bottles on the spot. In any event, that evening Coty received an order for twelve bottles of La Rose Jacqueminot. Within weeks, stores
were demanding La Rose Jacqueminot. Coty's business was launched and in a matter of months he had made his first million.
Tuesday 21 August 2012
Phul Nana
Phul Nana (1891) - Described as “A Bouquet of India’s Choicest Flowers”
Phul-Nana became Grossmith’s most revered perfume.
A fresh, sweet Floral composition with Aromatic Fougère overtones on a soft, warm, woody base.
Sunday 19 August 2012
Guerlain
Picture showing Guerlain Factory creating fragrances in 1963.Guerlain used to make fragrances from natural raw materials like absolutes,tinctures,animal
ic extracts etc.
Saturday 18 August 2012
Bush and Company
Photo of W.J.Bush & Co.Limited (factory) in 1930 manufacturing essential oils & fruit essences.
Friday 17 August 2012
Polak and Schwarz
Joseph Polak & Leopold Schwarz, residents of the small Dutch town of Zutphen, form their business to process concentrated fruit juices. In only seven years, they have to open a second factory.
Thursday 16 August 2012
Bruno Court
Postcard of Bruno Court,Grasse"s showing Fat-Enfleurage of Jasmine.
Enfleurage is a process that uses odorless fats that are solid at room temperature to capture the fragrant compounds exuded by plants. The process can be "cold" enfleurage or "hot" enfleurage.
Wednesday 15 August 2012
Antoine Chiris
Lucien Boucher drew this map dating from the early 1930"s for the perfumer in Grasse, Institutions Antoine Chiris, who had then counters and factories wherever uttered aromatic plants.
Sunday 12 August 2012
Friday 10 August 2012
Lautier Fils
Its a postcard showing a factory of Lautier Fils,Grasse.Processing Rose de Mai (one of the variety of rose).
Vintage creation in 1904.
Thursday 9 August 2012
Antoine Chiris
This famous house Grasse was founded in 1768 by Antoine Chiris.
Illustrations H.Lespinasse.
This superb multi-lingual brochure presents the history of the house of Grasse, Antoine Léon Chiris.
Wednesday 8 August 2012
Givaudan
Photo showing the first Givaudan perfume factory in Vernier, Switzerland, in 1911 at the time when their chief perfumer created 3 masterpieces of the eighth art, none of them on the market today. Givaudan, the leading swiss company, is now the number one in research and fine fragrances.
Tuesday 7 August 2012
Roure-Dupont Inc.
An ad from 1951 for Roure - the producer of raw materials and fine fragrances. It's from an american trade magazine... just to show again the fascination with everything from Paris.
Monday 6 August 2012
Polak Frutal Works
Drawing of the structures of Polak Frutal Works, made by an American artist in 1960.
PFW (Polak Frutal Works) settled in 1914 in Amersfoort (Zaandam) directed by the brothers Jacob and Henri Polak. Already in 1916 a new factory was built at the South Nijverheidsweg . The company manufactured flavors and fragrances, initially by extraction from natural products such as fruits, later also chemical. In 1988 the company moved to Barneveld. Some years later the buildings demolished.
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