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St. Ann Street, New Orleans
The sky is bright over Jackson Square, New Orleans still wears its ruffled edges, the wrought-iron gates to St. Ann Street are lined with images of impressionist painters, shimmering in thousands of shades of sepia. Through the fern leaves of the avenue trees, glaring bitter lemon rays fall, swirling within the finest wisps of smoke from August Doussan's Bourbon French fragrance shop, beneath the richly decorated balconies, the old French arcades. There, countless soap bubbles buzz, leaving the doors in tobacco colors, where light brown spicy flowers dance between hoops across the streets. And then the sky turns to dark vanilla, and August lends you his amber glasses, and lemon smoke and tobacco soap twirl with the old times' ribbons.
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August Doussan founded his first perfume shop in 1843 at 525 St. Ann Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, then still under the name 'Doussan French', supplying the leading families of the city. Under his partner J.H. Tindel, a European perfumer, the house soon developed its own formulations, especially fragrances that blended flowers and spices into subtle perfumes and colognes typical of New Orleans at that time. After Doussan's death, Tindel changed the name to 'Bourbon French Perfume Company'. Under this name, the house still produces small batches of natural fragrances by hand using unchanged methods to this day.
"525", named after the house number of this first shop, is entirely in the tradition of those inherited recipes. It opens with sharp, bright citrus notes that, in their angular sharpness, remind one of incense sticks, which can also be attributed to the classic soapy tobacco note that soon emerges as bright-spicy and slightly floral underneath. The dark vanilla in the base ambers the bright-smoky-soapy spice in a way that seemingly transports the wearer back to a barbershop of the city on the Mississippi in the 19th century, a moderate aura of nostalgia that lasts for a good six to seven hours.
525 St. Ann Street, New Orleans:
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/E16X0R/st-ann-street-new-orleans-E16X0R.jpg
(With thanks to Bloodxclat)
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August Doussan founded his first perfume shop in 1843 at 525 St. Ann Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, then still under the name 'Doussan French', supplying the leading families of the city. Under his partner J.H. Tindel, a European perfumer, the house soon developed its own formulations, especially fragrances that blended flowers and spices into subtle perfumes and colognes typical of New Orleans at that time. After Doussan's death, Tindel changed the name to 'Bourbon French Perfume Company'. Under this name, the house still produces small batches of natural fragrances by hand using unchanged methods to this day.
"525", named after the house number of this first shop, is entirely in the tradition of those inherited recipes. It opens with sharp, bright citrus notes that, in their angular sharpness, remind one of incense sticks, which can also be attributed to the classic soapy tobacco note that soon emerges as bright-spicy and slightly floral underneath. The dark vanilla in the base ambers the bright-smoky-soapy spice in a way that seemingly transports the wearer back to a barbershop of the city on the Mississippi in the 19th century, a moderate aura of nostalgia that lasts for a good six to seven hours.
525 St. Ann Street, New Orleans:
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/E16X0R/st-ann-street-new-orleans-E16X0R.jpg
(With thanks to Bloodxclat)
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