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Essence Rare (1976 version)(1976)
Houbigant · Houbigant in-house perfumers · Woody
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A reformulation or reissue of Houbigant's Essence Rare, sharing the original 1928 composition's spiced floral-woody structure with an updated amber-musk-sandalwood base nearly fifty years after its initial release.
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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 reformulation or reissue of Houbigant's Essence Rare, sharing the original 1928 composition's spiced floral-woody structure with an updated amber-musk-sandalwood base nearly fifty years after its initial release.
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