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Nuit de Noel Boite a Musique(1922)

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A special music-box presentation of Caron's Nuit de Noel, Boite a Musique, sharing the fragrance's established ylang-ylang-rose-jasmine-oakmoss-vanilla structure but packaged in an ornamental musical box, part of the elaborate presentation formats luxury houses used to distinguish holiday and gift editions of their signature fragrances. Such collectible packaging treatments were increasingly common for prestige fragrances by the 1920s.

Did you know? This scent's jasmine note owes its richness to indole — the same compound found, in larger amounts, in feces. Read the full story →

Brand

Caron

Perfumer

Ernest Daltroff

Launched

1922

Family

Floral

Nuit de Noel Boite a Musique is a fragrance from Caron, released in 1922 and composed by Ernest Daltroff. It sits in the Floral family. It opens with Ylang-Ylang and Tincture of Rose, moves into a heart of Jasmine and Rose, and settles into a base of Oakmoss, Sandalwood, Vanilla, and Musk.

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