Fantasia de Fleurs(1862)

A mixed-floral bouquet from Creed's early 1860s catalog, opening on bergamot before a heart described simply as mixed florals, finished with musk and woods, a looser, more abstract structure than the single-flower soliflores dominant earlier in the century. The shift toward blended floral bouquets rather than showcasing one dominant flower reflects a broader trend gathering pace in French perfumery through the 1860s, as perfumers began combining multiple absolutes to create more complex, less literal floral impressions. Without a detailed surviving note breakdown, the exact composition of the mixed-florals heart is not fully documented, consistent with the generally thin record-keeping around Creed's 19th-century catalog. The name itself, Fantasia of Flowers, signals this more impressionistic intent, suggesting an idealized bouquet rather than a specific botanical portrait. It represents an early step in the direction perfumery would fully embrace by the 1880s and 90s, when synthetic materials made genuinely abstract floral compositions possible.