Olfactionary
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This scent's violet note exists because of ionone, synthesized in 1893 to replace violet-flower oil, once one of the most expensive materials in perfumery.
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First made for the inaugural Barnes Fragrance Fair, blending the aroma of Shakespeare's flowers: his first sonnet mentions 'beauty's rose,' hence the name. Rose absolute and essential oil joined by lavender, narcissus, beeswax and hay absolutes, evoking lily and violet, floating on a bed of white musks. The most expensive fragrance the house has ever made.
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