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Femme (Rochas relaunch)(1943)

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A wartime relaunch of Edmond Roudnitska's Femme for Rochas, sharing the original 1933 composition's plum-bergamot-peach opening and rose-jasmine-cinnamon heart over the same oakmoss-leather-patchouli-amber base. Reissuing an established success rather than launching an entirely new fragrance was a common strategy during the material-constrained war years, when sourcing the full range of natural ingredients for a new composition was considerably more difficult.

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Brand

Rochas

Perfumer

Edmond Roudnitska

Launched

1943

Family

Chypre

Femme (Rochas relaunch) is a fragrance from Rochas, released in 1943 and composed by Edmond Roudnitska. It sits in the Chypre family. It opens with Plum, Bergamot, and Peach, moves into a heart of Rose, Jasmine, and Cinnamon, and settles into a base of Oakmoss, Leather, Patchouli, and Amber.

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