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Le Temps des Lilas(1921)
Houbigant · Houbigant in-house perfumers · Floral
At a glance
An overdosed lilac composition from Houbigant, opening on bergamot and green notes before the concentrated lilac heart, closing on musk and woods.
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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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An overdosed lilac composition from Houbigant, opening on bergamot and green notes before the concentrated lilac heart, closing on musk and woods. Le Temps des Lilas, Lilac Time, ties the fragrance to lilac's brief springtime bloom, a fleeting-beauty theme common in period naming. As with lily of the valley and wisteria, lilac's natural scent resists conventional extraction, so the note here is a synthetic reconstruction.
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