CLASSIC COLLECTION INSPIRATION Grisette evokes the natural fragrances of the end of the 19th century that were worn by young Parisian women of that time. They were seduced by the quality and simplicity of Lubin’s compositions. Familiar figures in the streets of 19th century Paris, grisettes were the youthful, fresh-faced girls who worked in the capital’s sewing workshops. They were full of joie de vivre and wore grey calico frocks that gave them their nickname. These fun-loving creatures paired up with the bohemian students in the Latin Quarter. They provided the inspiration for the artists at Montmartre, becoming the heroines of paintings by Renoir and Manet. The grisettes of the Belle Époque ignored the moralconstraints of the century, bringing a risqué charm to the formidable effervescence of an emerging new era. PARISIAN JOIE DE THE SCENT TOP NOTES: VIVRE OF THE BELLE Citrus, grapefruit and bergamot ÉPOQUE combined with rose concrete MIDDLE NOTES: She slips through the crowded streets on nimble feet Iris concrete and incense with her head held high, a slim, fleeting figure that is the very image of Bohemian Paris. With her rosy BASE NOTES: cheeks and innocent gaze, she is hurrying to meet Musk, amber, cedar wood, her lover, but Grisette is already thinking of another, and Madagascan vanilla absolute dreaming wistfully of a new romance. Their first kiss beneath that awning sealed a promise truer than any PERFUMER other vow. Thomas Fontaine