Photo: Unknown artist, patent drawing for a perfume bottle in the form of a candle in holder for 'Sleeping' fragrance. The original design by Marcel Vertes for Elsa Schiaparelli., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Schiaparelli Sleeping(1937)
Schiaparelli · Jean Carles · Floral
At a glance
Created by Jean Carles for Schiaparelli, this composition opens on bergamot and peach before a heart of rose, jasmine, and tuberose, closing on musk, amber, vanilla, and civet. Its rich, sensual white-floral heart paired with a warm civet-amber base continues the boundary-pushing sensibility Schiaparelli brought to Shocking a few years earlier, reflecting the house's consistent house style of unconventional glamour.
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This scent's vanilla note relies on vanillin, the compound that made vanilla affordable worldwide — first synthesized in 1874.
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