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En Avion Caron 1929 Parfum

8.8 / 10 40 Ratings

A popular perfume by Caron for women, released in 1929. The scent is floral-spicy. The longevity is above-average. It was last marketed by Alès Groupe.
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Main accords

Floral

Spicy

Resinous

Powdery

Oriental

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Orange

Neroli

Heart Notes

Lilac

Jasmine

Base Notes

Opoponax

Amber

Perfumer

Ernest Daltroff

Ratings

Scent

8.840 Ratings

Longevity

8.533 Ratings

Sillage

7.835 Ratings

Bottle

8.529 Ratings

Submitted by Maxi1000 · last update on 12/11/2025.

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Reviews

3 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/03/2025

ClaireV
969 Reviews

ClaireV

Soaring Caronade

There’s no mistaking En Avion as anything other than a Caron. Everything comes from a well-established rulebook – flip to page ten for the stinging clove topnote of Poivre, the smoky, medicinal amber tilting its cap to leather, well, that’s Tabac Blond, and the piles of soft, mossy, licorice-and-rose-scented face power are lifted straight out of the drydown of Nuit de Noel.

But I have a sneaking fondness for En Avion above and beyond these other, possibly better regarded perfumes. It could be because that first big whoosh of scent mixes the ridiculous with the sublime – expensive jasmine mingling with the tack of sun-warmed pleather, an opulent amber against the spicy shaving soap of opoponax, or a stick of clove-scented stick of rock or bubblegum (vaguely Brighton Beach-ish) dropped into an exquisitely ornate pot of pink face powder, the kind that the sales assistants retrieve wordlessly from beneath the counter the minute they catch sight of your American Express Centurion.

Mostly, though, I love that it has this opaque texture halfway between smoke and cream, and no underlying structure to speak of. En Avion gives you all its glory upfront and then does a slow, graceful fade out that simply lowers the saturation level with each passing minute. Wearing it reminds me of being in one of those glider planes that drift so smoothly from one altitude to the next that you are unaware of your own descent until you suddenly see the ground. In the end, all that remains is a pouf of spicy powder from a big red tin of Imperial Leather talc, which makes me wonder if that’s all it ever was to begin with.

01/12/2025

9Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Serenissima
1226 Reviews

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Serenissima

Beginning of the Thirties: A Conquest of the Fragrance Sky

In the third volume of the novel series "The Douglas Sisters" by Charlotte Jacoby, two of the protagonists travel to Paris once again at the beginning of the thirties and also visit the already well-known perfumery "Caron" there.
In the back area, they meet the perfumer Ernest Daltroff, a former admirer of the Hamburg perfumery founder Marie Carstens, from whom they inherited the company.
Delighted, he presents them with his latest fragrance composition: it is to be called "En Avion" and immediately captivates the ladies with its pronounced femininity in the form of carnations, roses, jasmine, and lilac on a finely erotic base: What a bouquet of scents!

Now, Caron’s perfume "En Avion" contains several fragrance notes more than the local pyramid shows.
Not only the bright, aromatic flash reminiscent of southern summers with ripe oranges and delicious, precious neroli oil, but also fragrance classics like carnations, with their feathery heads and typical fine exotic spice, as well as the noble and ever-so-wonderfully fragrant rose blossoms in rich splendor accompany their floral appearance.
How wonderfully a dream unfolds from this with the delicacy of orange blossoms, generous cascades of white richly fragrant jasmine, and the arrival of spring accompanied by lilac clusters, loved not only by butterflies: A delightful bouquet and an adornment for every stylish ladies' hat!
With a fine animalistic sandalwood note, resinous-spicy smoke veils, rich in amber and opoponax, envelop a soft something of musk that wraps this successful composition of the old fragrance school with a certain flair, thus forming a sensually appealing conclusion.

Classic, stylishly elegant, and also slightly erotic, "En Avion" enchants the senses; a graceful whirl, an arabesque, conquering the fragrance sky like an airplane that was not yet an everyday means of transport in 1932. It had an air of mystery about it.
What more could a woman wish for than to be surrounded by a mystery?
So there is always a reason for a few spritzes of "En Avion"!
Ready for Takeoff?

(By the way, Jacques Guerlain was working on his fragrance "Vol de Nuit" almost simultaneously, dedicated to his friend, the pilot and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, which his wife Consuelo - the "Rose of the Little Prince" - wore regularly until his death.)

12/20/2022

10Scent 10Longevity 8Sillage

Marieposa
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Marieposa

Top Review 47

Marga von Etzdorf

Through the thin curtain, the light of a kerosene lamp shimmers. She has hung her flight jacket on the hook on the wall. Her legs still tremble slightly from the roar of the engine during the long flight. Twelve days from Berlin to Tokyo. Day after day. Ten hours. Alone. No radio. At the mercy of the elements in the open cockpit, the map on her lap and the diary within reach. A collection of poems. Heinrich Heine perhaps or Eichendorff.
But now she has arrived and is doing her best not to observe him, the distant, indistinct figure moving on the other side of the white cloth that divides the room into two halves. Her side and his.
She nearly crashed to the ground upon landing. But now she is here, in this room lined with darkly shimmering wooden floorboards, where four kerosene lamps glow. Two on her side, two on his. Outside, the wind has picked up and lashes the branches of the orange tree with its ripe fruits against the window.
“Would you like a cigarette?” his voice sounds from nowhere. She gratefully accepts and follows in tense silence as the vague figure transforms into an ever more defined shadow as it approaches.
She starts to say something. Wants to ask if they could sit together to see each other while talking, but then she dismisses the thought again. She likes his voice.
As he slides the cigarette case under the curtain, their hands touch for a moment.

**

In the history of aviation, the aviation pioneer Marga von Etzdorf is the eternal second. With her solo flight from Berlin to Tokyo in 1931, she achieved her greatest success, but with every triumph came a bitter setback, and she made a name for herself as a crash pilot. Today, she is hardly mentioned alongside great names like Helen Boucher, Amelia Earhart, Amy Johnson, Elly Beinhorn, and has largely been swallowed by history. She may have allowed herself to be used by the Nazis as a weapon smuggler at the end of her life, or not. Much remains hidden, but if you are interested in the person, I recommend the novel "Halbschatten" by Uwe Timm.

Nevertheless, or precisely because of this, Marga von Etzdorf was the very first to come to my mind when I got to know En Avion. Apparently, the brilliant Ernest Daltroff borrowed the basic structure of L’Heure Bleue for En Avion: An accord of neroli, anise, and clove meets powdery iris. But where the (hopefully!) immortal and significantly more successful L’Heure Bleue simply wants to be beautiful, En Avion surprisingly takes a different path. The well-known powdery floral quality here is enveloped in a cloak of incense-warm opoponax and pomander orange with a distinctly perceptible oakmoss note.
This combination of dark powdery flowers and warm-leathery opoponax with a hint of gasoline goes further than simply dressing the Guerlain classic in a leather jacket. It seems to me that Ernest Daltroff has brought together two completely contradictory fragrances into a harmonious whole without fully intertwining them. Like in my opening story, they seem to coexist as if separated by a thin curtain, and every time I dab on the fragrance, I am curious which one will take the lead this time. This is demanding and incredibly exciting, but it may also have contributed to En Avion always being overshadowed by the beautiful sister.

Some classics are surprisingly modern and could appear today at absurd prices somewhere in the niche market. With En Avion, it is a bit different. The fragrance is in its rich opulence as clearly nostalgic as it is old-fashioned in the best sense. For me, there was no doubt that I was dealing with an old fragrance soul here, and that is probably also the reason why Caron decided to discontinue the fragrance.
That there is no place for this Janus-faced beauty in our world makes me a little sad, but there is no sense in mourning the past - yes, even Marga von Etzdorf probably sensed that she would not regain her footing when she shot herself after a crash landing in Aleppo at just twenty-five years old.

What a blessing that in my perfume cabinet, the laws of this world do not apply, but my own. For me, En Avion is in no way inferior to L’Heure Bleue, and I will enjoy every precious drop in all its enchanting beauty and contradictions.