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Cocktail(1930)
Jean Patou · Henri Almeras · Floral
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The base composition in Henri Almeras's Cocktail series for Jean Patou, opening on bergamot and aldehydes before a mixed-floral heart, closing on amber, musk, and woods.
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This scent's aldehydes carry a famous origin myth, the "accidental overdose" story behind Chanel No. 5, that historians say probably isn't true.
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The base composition in Henri Almeras's Cocktail series for Jean Patou, opening on bergamot and aldehydes before a mixed-floral heart, closing on amber, musk, and woods. Patou released this alongside Sweet, Dry, and Bitter Sweet variants, treating the underlying formula as a base to be adjusted in different directions much as a bartender varies a cocktail recipe, an unusually playful and modern conceptual framework for fragrance marketing in this period.
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