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Cocktail Bitter Sweet(1930)
Jean Patou · Henri Almeras · Floral
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The bitter-sweet variant in Jean Patou's Cocktail series, sharing the aldehydic-floral base structure with an amber-vanilla-musk finish balanced between the sweeter and drier editions released alongside it.
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This scent's aldehydes carry a famous origin myth — the "accidental overdose" story behind Chanel No. 5 — that historians say probably isn't true.
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Cocktail Bitter Sweet is a fragrance from Jean Patou, released in 1930 and composed by Henri Almeras. It sits in the Floral family. It opens with Bergamot and Aldehydes, moves into a heart of Mixed Florals, and settles into a base of Amber, Vanilla, and Musk.
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