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I am not the Countess du Barry...
... nor Marie Antoinette, and yet I can well imagine that the flower extracts of Jean-Francois Houbigant already delighted both of them back then.
In the house at Faubourg-Saint-Honoré with the business sign "Le Corbeille du Fleur" was his residence.
He was mainly a fragrance trader, glove maker and wedding basket arranger.
(How pretty is that? Wedding basket arranger!)
This activity is also the origin of the brand's distinctive mark: the famous motif of straw inlays, the basket filled with flowers so typical of the 18th century.
So it's not surprising that the most famous perfume of this house bears the simple yet beautiful name "Quelques Fleurs".
Flowers are the main motif of this perfume.
Just say the words rose, jasmine, violet or carnation and wonderful, associated aromas take shape in our memory.
The original perfume consisted of a bouquet of lilac, rose, jasmine, orchid and violet: a skilful blend - floral, rich and full of ambergris.
She evoked both the feminine luxury of the great "Belle Epoque" and the lively and so extremely colourful and sparkling era of the "Wild 20s".
For the original "Quelques Fleurs" was introduced at a time when Picasso and Braque discovered Cubism for themselves (Shocking?) and the Russian Ballet enchanted Paris.
Since then, it has never been forgotten.
So it is no wonder that this long-lasting fragrance was relaunched in 1985 under the name "Quelques Fleurs l'Original" and still carries its seductive bouquet that challenges every fashion and time.
A spicy-fresh and richly resinous entrée opens the door to a dreamlike, beautiful flower garden in baroque splendor.
Five particularly fragrant beauties stand out from this:
The rose, which dominates almost all floral scents and also gives this bouquet its royal stamp.
Here she is slightly spicy, similar to honey and has the ability to use her scent to accentuate her other graceful flower friends and their special, own scents.
Jasmine, her constant companion, is also rightly called the "King of Summer".
Its balsamic fragrance blends harmoniously with the rich, sensual eternally feminine of the rose.
The dense white flowering stars and heavy lilac umbels give this bouquet endurance, while the orchid adds to its exoticism.
The violet forms here - not at all modestly - the final note.
But also the other companions of this noble aroma quintet do not remain silent and shy in the background:
The feathery pink carnation alone plays a role that should not be forgotten.
Who does not love it, this beauty of the garden that lasts all times ?
Beeswax with its creamy spice seems to unite and unite all the components of this beautiful scented heart.
Of course, a big bow of heart-warming Ylang-Ylang should not be missing!
"Quelques Fleurs l'Original" wouldn't be a child of what I call the "golden age of fragrance" if spicy oak moss and cedar wood were missing.
These two are virtually classics of the bases of almost all fragrances of the late seventies, eighties to the mid-nineties.
Warming musk and erotic-animal sandalwood meet a civet cat on their way to perfection, which unmistakably courts attention.
The large powder puff, which sprays over everything, is used by Tonka bean and iris.
They thus excellently conclude a sensual-luxurious and extremely feminine fragrance experience.
Rich and noble fragrant, "Quelques Fleurs l'Original" accompanies you for many hours; opulent and floral, spicy and unique at every stage of its fragrance development.
The probably fitting conclusion to this fragrance commentary is for me the sentence by Alfred Lord Tennyson:
"If I had a flower for every thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever."
In "Quelques Fleurs l'Original", the house of Houbigant has woven many loving thoughts into a garden of magic and charm
In the house at Faubourg-Saint-Honoré with the business sign "Le Corbeille du Fleur" was his residence.
He was mainly a fragrance trader, glove maker and wedding basket arranger.
(How pretty is that? Wedding basket arranger!)
This activity is also the origin of the brand's distinctive mark: the famous motif of straw inlays, the basket filled with flowers so typical of the 18th century.
So it's not surprising that the most famous perfume of this house bears the simple yet beautiful name "Quelques Fleurs".
Flowers are the main motif of this perfume.
Just say the words rose, jasmine, violet or carnation and wonderful, associated aromas take shape in our memory.
The original perfume consisted of a bouquet of lilac, rose, jasmine, orchid and violet: a skilful blend - floral, rich and full of ambergris.
She evoked both the feminine luxury of the great "Belle Epoque" and the lively and so extremely colourful and sparkling era of the "Wild 20s".
For the original "Quelques Fleurs" was introduced at a time when Picasso and Braque discovered Cubism for themselves (Shocking?) and the Russian Ballet enchanted Paris.
Since then, it has never been forgotten.
So it is no wonder that this long-lasting fragrance was relaunched in 1985 under the name "Quelques Fleurs l'Original" and still carries its seductive bouquet that challenges every fashion and time.
A spicy-fresh and richly resinous entrée opens the door to a dreamlike, beautiful flower garden in baroque splendor.
Five particularly fragrant beauties stand out from this:
The rose, which dominates almost all floral scents and also gives this bouquet its royal stamp.
Here she is slightly spicy, similar to honey and has the ability to use her scent to accentuate her other graceful flower friends and their special, own scents.
Jasmine, her constant companion, is also rightly called the "King of Summer".
Its balsamic fragrance blends harmoniously with the rich, sensual eternally feminine of the rose.
The dense white flowering stars and heavy lilac umbels give this bouquet endurance, while the orchid adds to its exoticism.
The violet forms here - not at all modestly - the final note.
But also the other companions of this noble aroma quintet do not remain silent and shy in the background:
The feathery pink carnation alone plays a role that should not be forgotten.
Who does not love it, this beauty of the garden that lasts all times ?
Beeswax with its creamy spice seems to unite and unite all the components of this beautiful scented heart.
Of course, a big bow of heart-warming Ylang-Ylang should not be missing!
"Quelques Fleurs l'Original" wouldn't be a child of what I call the "golden age of fragrance" if spicy oak moss and cedar wood were missing.
These two are virtually classics of the bases of almost all fragrances of the late seventies, eighties to the mid-nineties.
Warming musk and erotic-animal sandalwood meet a civet cat on their way to perfection, which unmistakably courts attention.
The large powder puff, which sprays over everything, is used by Tonka bean and iris.
They thus excellently conclude a sensual-luxurious and extremely feminine fragrance experience.
Rich and noble fragrant, "Quelques Fleurs l'Original" accompanies you for many hours; opulent and floral, spicy and unique at every stage of its fragrance development.
The probably fitting conclusion to this fragrance commentary is for me the sentence by Alfred Lord Tennyson:
"If I had a flower for every thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever."
In "Quelques Fleurs l'Original", the house of Houbigant has woven many loving thoughts into a garden of magic and charm
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