The Perfume Bee

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Filed under: Perfume — Christine at 10:29 am on Wednesday, October 25, 2006


“A fragrance worn by Marie-Antoinette, a woman sometimes described as the world’s first fashion victim, has been re-created by a French perfume-maker for an exhibition at the Palace of Versailles.” Click here to read entire Times Online article…

This perfume consists of lavender, rose petal, jasmine, iris, galbanum, essence of citron tree, musk, tonka bean, ambergris, vanilla, benjamin, cedar and sandalwood. The recipe for the perfume was discovered by Elisabeth de Feydeau, a French historian. It is a floral bouquet made from completely natural products. It sells for the queenly price of $440, with the profits going toward restoration of Marie-Antoinette’s furniture and objects.

Painting by Elisabeth Vigee-LeBrun
image source: Encyclopedia Britannica
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