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second of all, because it was so beautiful!
My father probably thought so one year after he gave my mum "Soir de Paris" for Christmas, when he was playing with the idea of making his mother happy with it
Success did not fail: it crashed quite heartily in this marriage!
Who wants to smell like mother-in-law, especially when you consider the tense relationship between the two women in a house.
My mother was presented as petty: but grandma didn't get this scent!
She loved violets, lilacs and carnations all her life.
This story was told to me again and again and I can imagine that "Soir de Paris" in its cobalt-blue flacon was a good match for the dark blue velvet dress of my mother.
At that time they still had a "good dress" and my mother had this midnight blue dress, in which she had married, shortened accordingly.
I still remember the enchanting heart-shaped neckline that gave it a romantic touch.
The content of this flacon enchanted even then with its wonderful bouquet.
Not only violets and cyclamen meet at the beginning; they also bring bergamot and tarragon as a crowning glory.
Like these two flowers, tarragon is a pure spring herb; I'm thinking of my tarragon sauce with asparagus and new potatoes - a fine thing!
This combination was already a bit daring for the time.
It also continues with early summer bloomers: the heady scent of the lime blossom - whole streets still smell today in May and June afterwards. Especially in the side streets of the Kurfürstendamm there are still many lime trees to be found; much to the "joy" of the drivers parked there! The sweet sticky flower sap they always get very badly again from the wagon.
A large bouquet of flowers contains heavy lilac umbels, iris - noble as always -, the spicy carnations and beautiful roses: what a fragrance develops here and combines harmoniously with the aromatic prelude!
Lily of the valley and jasmine, both in their own fragrance and not without controversy in this community, provide the charm of white flowers before clover adds a certain "green" spice.
Older fragrance descriptions also contained peonies in the heart note: it must have been a luxuriation in flower scents!
The base note finally contains Styrax and Heliotrop, two heavy vanilla-heavy nuances; these in turn go very well with the clove!
A hint of vetiver ground this fragrance composition before the spicy resinous climax unfolds:
Benzoe and incense prepare the way for Ambra - opulent, smoky and erotic! -before musk perfects this enchanting fragrance in a very refined way!
A hint of sandalwood was added to the original fragrance: the combination of clove and sandalwood is said to have been an event at that time. (I can imagine that very well.)
The Bourjois documents provide information about this great fragrance, which first appeared on the American market in the late 1920s.
This company has an original history. It was founded in 1863 in Paris by Alexandre Napoleón Bourjois as a shop for stage make-up.
It quickly gained an excellent international reputation with its great pallets of various powders and make-up materials in pastel colours.
Only after 1925, when a shop was opened in New York, where the competition for stage make-up was soon quite big, they tried to "in perfume".
At that time there was no perfume industry in America and therefore no competition; so the idea was obvious to offer the Americans a typical French fragrance.
A perfume that is reminiscent of roaring celebrations and also got a poetic name: "Evening in Paris"!
The current name "Soir de Paris" was given to the fragrance later, when it was launched on the French market.
A cobalt blue bottle, a silver label with stars and half moon and a romantic name:
with the help of these attributes "Soir de Paris" could only be a success.
After the war, this fragrance became a success also for the middle class. Because that was the only way my father could order him at that time from the soap trade via employee discount, which supplied the Chemische Fabrik in Berlin-Tempelhof, where he was employed.
And this is probably the way to explain this crazy idea, the gift with which he had scored with my mother, a year later to even consider for his mother.
His personal success would very quickly have been doubled!
But, as you know, that didn't happen!
Through this little piece of family history, which came back to my mind through a small sample of scent, I also dealt with the history of the company Bourjois.
I didn't even know what I would find there and had more or less expected the usual perfume development: but this little research was really worth it.
And if you still have the chance to get a vintage bottle today, you should just take it and honour this jewel: "Soir de Paris" brings a very special luxury into your life.
And who wants to do without a little luxury?
Who wants to smell like mother-in-law, especially when you consider the tense relationship between the two women in a house.
My mother was presented as petty: but grandma didn't get this scent!
She loved violets, lilacs and carnations all her life.
This story was told to me again and again and I can imagine that "Soir de Paris" in its cobalt-blue flacon was a good match for the dark blue velvet dress of my mother.
At that time they still had a "good dress" and my mother had this midnight blue dress, in which she had married, shortened accordingly.
I still remember the enchanting heart-shaped neckline that gave it a romantic touch.
The content of this flacon enchanted even then with its wonderful bouquet.
Not only violets and cyclamen meet at the beginning; they also bring bergamot and tarragon as a crowning glory.
Like these two flowers, tarragon is a pure spring herb; I'm thinking of my tarragon sauce with asparagus and new potatoes - a fine thing!
This combination was already a bit daring for the time.
It also continues with early summer bloomers: the heady scent of the lime blossom - whole streets still smell today in May and June afterwards. Especially in the side streets of the Kurfürstendamm there are still many lime trees to be found; much to the "joy" of the drivers parked there! The sweet sticky flower sap they always get very badly again from the wagon.
A large bouquet of flowers contains heavy lilac umbels, iris - noble as always -, the spicy carnations and beautiful roses: what a fragrance develops here and combines harmoniously with the aromatic prelude!
Lily of the valley and jasmine, both in their own fragrance and not without controversy in this community, provide the charm of white flowers before clover adds a certain "green" spice.
Older fragrance descriptions also contained peonies in the heart note: it must have been a luxuriation in flower scents!
The base note finally contains Styrax and Heliotrop, two heavy vanilla-heavy nuances; these in turn go very well with the clove!
A hint of vetiver ground this fragrance composition before the spicy resinous climax unfolds:
Benzoe and incense prepare the way for Ambra - opulent, smoky and erotic! -before musk perfects this enchanting fragrance in a very refined way!
A hint of sandalwood was added to the original fragrance: the combination of clove and sandalwood is said to have been an event at that time. (I can imagine that very well.)
The Bourjois documents provide information about this great fragrance, which first appeared on the American market in the late 1920s.
This company has an original history. It was founded in 1863 in Paris by Alexandre Napoleón Bourjois as a shop for stage make-up.
It quickly gained an excellent international reputation with its great pallets of various powders and make-up materials in pastel colours.
Only after 1925, when a shop was opened in New York, where the competition for stage make-up was soon quite big, they tried to "in perfume".
At that time there was no perfume industry in America and therefore no competition; so the idea was obvious to offer the Americans a typical French fragrance.
A perfume that is reminiscent of roaring celebrations and also got a poetic name: "Evening in Paris"!
The current name "Soir de Paris" was given to the fragrance later, when it was launched on the French market.
A cobalt blue bottle, a silver label with stars and half moon and a romantic name:
with the help of these attributes "Soir de Paris" could only be a success.
After the war, this fragrance became a success also for the middle class. Because that was the only way my father could order him at that time from the soap trade via employee discount, which supplied the Chemische Fabrik in Berlin-Tempelhof, where he was employed.
And this is probably the way to explain this crazy idea, the gift with which he had scored with my mother, a year later to even consider for his mother.
His personal success would very quickly have been doubled!
But, as you know, that didn't happen!
Through this little piece of family history, which came back to my mind through a small sample of scent, I also dealt with the history of the company Bourjois.
I didn't even know what I would find there and had more or less expected the usual perfume development: but this little research was really worth it.
And if you still have the chance to get a vintage bottle today, you should just take it and honour this jewel: "Soir de Paris" brings a very special luxury into your life.
And who wants to do without a little luxury?
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