Rose Precieuse(1910)

A rose soliflore from Ernest Daltroff, founder of the house of Caron, opening on bergamot before the rose heart, closing on musk and woods. Rose Precieuse, Precious Rose, follows the well-worn single-flower showcase format common across French perfumery in this period, prioritizing the quality of the rose material itself over compositional complexity. Daltroff had founded Caron only a few years earlier, around 1904, and this straightforward soliflore reflects the house's early output before its more ambitious and celebrated compositions, like Narcisse Noir and Tabac Blond, arrived the following decade. As a simple rose showcase, it sits within the same broad soliflore tradition as Molinard's earlier rose and Coty's various single-flower releases from the same years. It offers an early data point in Caron's development from a young house into one of the era's most respected perfumery names.