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La Giroflee(1920)
Houbigant · Houbigant in-house perfumers · Floral
At a glance
A wallflower (giroflee) soliflore from Houbigant's in-house perfumers, opening on bergamot and clove before the wallflower heart, closing on musk and woods. Wallflower's warm, clove-adjacent scent made the clove opening a natural pairing, reinforcing the flower's own spicy facets rather than masking them. It continues Houbigant's extensive run of single-flower showcases through the early 1920s, part of the house's steady commercial output beneath its more historically celebrated fougere and abstract-bouquet creations.
Did you know?
This scent's musk note is almost certainly synthetic — discovered by accident in 1888 while researching explosives.
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