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Huile de Chaldee(1927)

Jean Patou ยท Henri Almeras ยท Amber

At a glance

The tanning-oil companion to Jean Patou's Chaldee fragrance, sharing an orange-blossom opening and an amber-opoponax-vanilla base built to scent the skin during sunbathing rather than function as a standalone fine fragrance. It represents an early example of a coordinated fragrance-and-body-product line, a marketing approach that would become far more common across the industry decades later.

Did you know? This scent's vanilla note relies on vanillin, the compound that made vanilla affordable worldwide โ€” first synthesized in 1874. Read the full story โ†’
Launched
1927
Family
Amber
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