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Coup de Fouet(1954)
Caron · Michel Morsetti · Amber
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A spiced composition from Michel Morsetti for Caron, opening on pepper and bergamot, moving through a heart of carnation, clove, and cinnamon, and closing on sandalwood, amber, and musk.
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This scent's musk note is almost certainly synthetic, discovered by accident in 1888 while researching explosives.
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A spiced composition from Michel Morsetti for Caron, opening on pepper and bergamot, moving through a heart of carnation, clove, and cinnamon, and closing on sandalwood, amber, and musk. Coup de Fouet, Whip Crack, suggests a sharp, bracing intensity consistent with its pepper-clove-cinnamon structure, offered as a smaller companion to the more elaborate Poivre released the same year.
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