Emilie

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• Josesan

  October 20, 2019

  

  LA MAISON FRAGONARD is largely unknown to the general public and even to perfume enthusiasts in particular. To give an example: famous online perfume retailers in Spain do not stock any item from the FRAGONARD house. Neither Notino, nor Paco Perfumerías, nor Perfumes’Club, nor Primor, nor El Corte Inglés, nor Druni, nor Douglas, nor Nadia, nor Le Secret du Marais. Nobody sells Fragonard perfumes in Spain. On Amazon Spain, they are sold at rather expensive prices. The only place I have seen FRAGONARD perfumes at unbeatable prices is my indispensable Vinted (a buy-and-sell page for perfumes from five European countries), which, despite occasional hiccups, remains for me an inexhaustible source of treasures and very affordable discoveries. The Maison FRAGONARD is one of those houses that commands my respect, as it remains a family-based company rooted in GRASSE (France) and is currently run by Françoise and Agnès Costa, great-granddaughters of the founder of FRAGONARD, Eugène Fuchs. EUGÈNE FUCHS, a notary originally from Alsace, France, travelled to the city of GRASSE to alleviate his bronchial asthma, thanks to the benign climate of the Alpes Maritimes and the quality of its waters. Enamoured with this city and its perfumery tradition, he abandoned his profession and purchased an old perfumery there in 1926, in one of the city’s oldest factories, originally built by perfumer Claude Mottet in 1841. He named the factory-perfumery FRAGONARD, in honour of JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD (1732-1806), son of a perfumer glovemaker from Grasse and a Rococo painter of the Ancien Régime under Louis XVI. Born in Grasse, with a hedonistic and sensual aesthetic of clear Rubensian influence. EMILIE is a decidedly floral and delicate perfume, yet delicate with a somewhat sensual surprise. What stands out from the beginning is the violet flower, with that clean, soapy, virginal quality. This effect is enhanced by bergamot and white musk, which blend their citrus and refreshing effluvia with the violet flowers. Because EMILIE is a perfume highly suitable as a first fragrance for a teenager who does not wish to continue smelling of sweets, confectionery, or gummies and aims to use a perfume that distinguishes her from the rest of her class at the Institute. Hidden behind the violet, the more sensual aromas of a rose, a jasmine, and a lily of the valley are perceived, nothing animalic, but adding those doses of contained sensuality within the hormonal fragrances of an adolescence striving to break through the virginity of the violets and social restrictions. An evocative sweet woody base of sandalwood and amber lends it complexity and a texture halfway between lost innocence and newly discovered lust. As it dries down, a surprising indolic jasmine emerges, anticipating the nights of adolescent passion that are yet to come. EMILIE is a classy, exquisite, complex fragrance with appreciable longevity, worth knowing.

• Ícara

  January 1, 2021

  

  Years ago, after a trip to France, my sister, who knew of my obsession with sniffing perfumes, gifted me a box of samples of Fragonard’s classic feminine fragrances. Among them was Émilie, my favourite by far. I was very young, and its delicate, innocent yet sensual floral scent captivated me beyond remedy. I used up the miniature bottle quickly but kept it like gold in a cloth case to consult it occasionally and recall its aroma. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find anywhere in Spain to buy it. I see here that people compare it to Yves Saint Laurent’s Paris, presumably due to the violet; not so much for me, if anything, it reminds me slightly of Cotton Candy. I haven’t found its year of creation here, and I would have loved to know it, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that a beauty like Émilie was listed on Fragrantica and even had its own review. Bravo.

• chuaalba

  April 15, 2021

  

  Fragonard can be found in Bilbao at Kosguk.