Esxence - Meeting the Osmothéque (2)
This post originates here . Then “ Trèfle Incarnat ” of 1896, containing amyl salicylate (left, a picture I took at Grasse Perfumery Museum) and “ La Rose Jacqueminot ” (Coty) with Rhodinol (geranium) and ionone (violet). Legend has it that, after trying in vain to convince the manager of a department store in Paris to sell his perfume in the cosmetic department, without being successful, he broke a bottle the ground, the perfume filled the air, and this sweet rose scent, causing a group of women to rush and ask where they could buy that wonderful fragrance. May be they were friends of charming Monsieur Coty, or maybe not, in any case by the time Coty fragrances took off and soon reached all over Europe and the US.