Houbigant: Fougère Royale and Quelques Fleurs (#2)
This post originates here Fougère Royale (1882) is the first fougère scent in the history of perfumery, namely the head of a family characterized by the presence of aromatic notes (lavender, anise, sage, basil, tarragon, etc.) coupled with spices and woods, delicately contrasted by a sweet accord (vanilla, tonka bean, heliotropin). Fougère Royale contains coumarin, a synthetic molecule derived from hay which had just been discovered. Even Jicky by Guerlain (1889) contains coumarin, along with linalool and vanillin, and this makes them the first "modern" scents in history, that is not exclusively composed with natural raw materials, and thus with a certain degree of abstraction.