Flatterie by Houbigant: launched in 1955.
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So what does it smell like? It is classified as a soft floral chypre fragrance for women. Top notes are aldehydic and sweet with the dewy notes of cyclamen, narcissus and honeysuckle, the heart features a profusion of white flowers: gardenia, tuberose, orange blossom, jonquil, lily and jasmine, it is also slightly medicinal with the pungency of clove, like a fresh garden. It is rounded out with a classic chypre base accented with incnese and vanilla. Smells like an expensive, French toilet soap.
Fragrance Composition:
So what does it smell like? It is classified as a soft floral chypre fragrance for women. Top notes are aldehydic and sweet with the dewy notes of cyclamen, narcissus and honeysuckle, the heart features a profusion of white flowers: gardenia, tuberose, orange blossom, jonquil, lily and jasmine, it is also slightly medicinal with the pungency of clove, like a fresh garden. It is rounded out with a classic chypre base accented with incnese and vanilla. Smells like an expensive, French toilet soap.
- Top notes: cyclamen, wisteria, neroli, aldehydes, bergamot, honeysuckle, narcissus, amaryllis
- Middle notes: gardenia, clove, jonquil, lilac, heliotrope, orange blossom, tuberose, lily, iris, ylang ylang, rose, jasmine
- Base notes: tonka bean, vanilla, patchouli, oakmoss, orris, ambergris, musk, sandalwood, frankincense
Combat, 1955:
"Flatterie (fragrant cologne) by Houbigant - Very aldehyde, which gives it an explosion of youth, this perfume that flatters the woman, as the voluptuous whispering of Juan Ténorio must have done, gray of narcissus, heliotrope and amaryllis , a deliquescent [liquified] chypre. For the casino, the fashionable woman, blooming all day long with eau de cologne, will rediscover the extract, symbol of the flattering whirlwind it raises."
Fate of the Fragrance:
Discontinued, date unknown.