N'Aimez Que Moi Parfum(1916)

A parfum-concentration version of Caron's N'Aimez Que Moi, Love Only Me, built on bergamot and aldehydes in the opening, a heart of rose, violet, and iris, and a base of musk and vanilla. The aldehydic opening is notable for its early date, predating Chanel No. 5's more famous aldehydic breakthrough by five years, and situates Ernest Daltroff among the perfumers experimenting with the material class in the years immediately preceding its explosive popularization in the 1920s. The rose-violet-iris heart follows a well-established powdery-floral template similar to several of Caron's earlier Precieuse soliflores, though here blended into a fuller bouquet rather than showcasing a single flower. Its evocative, romantically direct name, an imperative plea rather than a flower or place name, reflects a more emotionally expressive naming convention distinct from the botanical or geographic titles common elsewhere in the era's perfumery. As a parfum-strength release, it likely represented the most concentrated and longest-lasting version among several formulations of the same fragrance Caron offered.