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Ho Hang Eau de Toilette(1971)
Balenciaga · Francis Fabron · Woody
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Created by Francis Fabron for Balenciaga, Ho Hang opens on bergamot and spices, moves through a heart of florals and woods, and closes on amber, musk, and leather.
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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 Francis Fabron for Balenciaga, Ho Hang opens on bergamot and spices, moves through a heart of florals and woods, and closes on amber, musk, and leather. Its exotic, evocative naming and warm spiced-amber-leather structure reflect the same orientalizing conventions common across much of 1970s masculine perfumery marketing.
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