The Ghostly Waft of Scent
“Perfume is the art that makes memory speak.” – Francis Kurkdjian (French perfumier).
The theme for for "Looking Close… on Friday" for Friday 23rd of May is "minimalism on a black background". I recently acquired this still sealed sample bottle of L.T. Piver’s Floramye perfume which I adore for its stylised Art Nouveau label featuring iris blooms in faded lilac around its name. The bottle still has purple cord wrapped around its seal. Even though the bottle is sealed, being one hundred and twenty years old, the perfume inside has long evaporated, leaving but a ghostly waft of scent. It seems a lovely piece to have selectively as the focus of an image against a black background. I hope you like my choice for this week’s them and that it makes you smile.
Floramye, was a scent created for L.T. Piver in 1905 by perfumer Pierre Armigeant (1874-1955) with the collaboration of chemist, Professor George Darzens. Floramye has a green iris bouquet, a natural type of subject, but there's amber, and a hard fizzy overtone that clearly isn't natural. Like the name : Flora - which is flower in Latin, with the fantasy suffix mye, Floramye is a hybrid - largely natural and a bit synthetic. Floramye was the first perfume to utilize methyl nonyl acetaldehyde, a discovery of Darzens. It would not be until the 1920's when this odorant would be widely used as perfumers moved away from nature and started to use chemical compounds. As a result they were less reliant on natural products, and - just as crucially - their imaginations were no longer tied to the garden.
L.T. Piver was one of the founding houses of French perfumery. In 1813, Louis-Toussaint Piver took over an enterprise that had been founded On July 8, 1774 by Michel Adam, "maître gantier parfumeur versaillais", in a shop at 82, rue des Lombards in Paris under the name "A la Reine des Fleurs". The company is still a leading French perfumery to this day with classically fragranced products created more than a century ago still in production.
The Ghostly Waft of Scent
“Perfume is the art that makes memory speak.” – Francis Kurkdjian (French perfumier).
The theme for for "Looking Close… on Friday" for Friday 23rd of May is "minimalism on a black background". I recently acquired this still sealed sample bottle of L.T. Piver’s Floramye perfume which I adore for its stylised Art Nouveau label featuring iris blooms in faded lilac around its name. The bottle still has purple cord wrapped around its seal. Even though the bottle is sealed, being one hundred and twenty years old, the perfume inside has long evaporated, leaving but a ghostly waft of scent. It seems a lovely piece to have selectively as the focus of an image against a black background. I hope you like my choice for this week’s them and that it makes you smile.
Floramye, was a scent created for L.T. Piver in 1905 by perfumer Pierre Armigeant (1874-1955) with the collaboration of chemist, Professor George Darzens. Floramye has a green iris bouquet, a natural type of subject, but there's amber, and a hard fizzy overtone that clearly isn't natural. Like the name : Flora - which is flower in Latin, with the fantasy suffix mye, Floramye is a hybrid - largely natural and a bit synthetic. Floramye was the first perfume to utilize methyl nonyl acetaldehyde, a discovery of Darzens. It would not be until the 1920's when this odorant would be widely used as perfumers moved away from nature and started to use chemical compounds. As a result they were less reliant on natural products, and - just as crucially - their imaginations were no longer tied to the garden.
L.T. Piver was one of the founding houses of French perfumery. In 1813, Louis-Toussaint Piver took over an enterprise that had been founded On July 8, 1774 by Michel Adam, "maître gantier parfumeur versaillais", in a shop at 82, rue des Lombards in Paris under the name "A la Reine des Fleurs". The company is still a leading French perfumery to this day with classically fragranced products created more than a century ago still in production.