Cyclamen(1913)

A cyclamen soliflore from Francois Coty, opening on bergamot before the cyclamen heart, closing on musk and woods. Cyclamen, like several other flowers popular for soliflore treatment in this period, has a delicate, difficult-to-extract natural scent, meaning perfumers typically approximated its cool, slightly peppery floral character using a combination of aldehydic and green materials rather than true cyclamen extract. It continues Coty's extensive run of single-flower showcases through the early 1910s, part of a broader pattern across French perfumery of testing the full range of fashionable garden and wildflowers as subjects for soliflore treatment. Cyclamen carried a slightly more unusual, less commercially dominant profile than staples like rose, violet, or jasmine, suggesting Coty's soliflore output extended into more exploratory territory as the format matured. It represents a minor but genuine entry in Coty's exhaustive early-1910s exploration of single-note perfumery.