Fille d'Eve(1952)

Created by Germaine Cellier for Nina Ricci, Fille d'Eve, Daughter of Eve, opens on bergamot, lemon, jasmine, and honeysuckle, moves through an unusually exotic heart of costus, rose, peach, plum, bouvardia, clove, and pinang, and closes on oakmoss, amber, animalic musk, and patchouli. Its costus root note, an intensely animalic, hair-and-skin-like material rarely used so prominently, reflects Cellier's continued fascination with challenging, unconventional raw materials following her work on Bandit, Vent Vert, and Fracas. The multi-fruit, multi-spice heart represents one of the most materially adventurous formulas of the early 1950s, combining tropical and exotic ingredients rarely paired together in a single composition. Fille d'Eve stands as another significant, if less commercially prominent, entry in Cellier's remarkable run of boundary-pushing creations across multiple houses through the 1940s and early 1950s.