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Huile de Chaldee(1927)
Jean Patou · Henri Almeras · Amber
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The tanning-oil companion to Jean Patou's Chaldee fragrance, sharing an orange-blossom opening and an amber-opoponax-vanilla base built to scent the skin during sunbathing rather than function as a standalone fine…
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This scent's orange blossom note was reportedly the only perfume Louis XIV could tolerate by the end of his life.
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The tanning-oil companion to Jean Patou's Chaldee fragrance, sharing an orange-blossom opening and an amber-opoponax-vanilla base built to scent the skin during sunbathing rather than function as a standalone fine fragrance. It represents an early example of a coordinated fragrance-and-body-product line, a marketing approach that would become far more common across the industry decades later.
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