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Carnation(1938)
Elizabeth Arden · Elizabeth Arden in-house perfumers · Floral
At a glance
A carnation soliflore from Elizabeth Arden's in-house perfumers, opening on bergamot and clove before the carnation heart, closing on musk and woods, following the well-established clove-carnation pairing common across the genre since Caron's Bellodgia a decade earlier.
Did you know?
This scent's musk note is almost certainly synthetic — discovered by accident in 1888 while researching explosives.
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Carnation is a fragrance from Elizabeth Arden, released in 1938 and composed by Elizabeth Arden in-house perfumers. It sits in the Floral family. It opens with Bergamot and Clove, moves into a heart of Carnation, and settles into a base of Musk and Woods.
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