Olfactionary
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This scent's leather note traces back to 16th-century Grasse, where perfuming foul-smelling gloves accidentally built the world's perfume capital.
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Created by Jean-Louis Sieuzac for Christian Dior, Fahrenheit opens on nutmeg flower, lavender, and cedar, moves through a heart of violet leaf, sandalwood, and carnation, and closes on leather, vetiver, and musk. Its unusual combination of a distinctly petrol-like, waxy synthetic accord with violet leaf and leather produced a genuinely novel, often-debated masculine profile unlike anything preceding it, and Fahrenheit remains one of the most technically distinctive and frequently discussed men's fragrances of the late 20th century.
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