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Nuit de Noel Boite a Musique(1922)

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Brand

Caron

Perfumer

Ernest Daltroff

Launched

1922

Family

Floral

A special music-box presentation of Caron's Nuit de Noel, Boite a Musique, sharing the fragrance's established ylang-ylang-rose-jasmine-oakmoss-vanilla structure but packaged in an ornamental musical box, part of the elaborate presentation formats luxury houses used to distinguish holiday and gift editions of their signature fragrances. Such collectible packaging treatments were increasingly common for prestige fragrances by the 1920s.

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