When the US arrived on the worlds political stage in 1918,
Europe stared with eyes wide open: freshly arrived in France to
find their husbands, American women proudly showed the old,
astounded continent that cigarettes were no longer the privilege of
men, and that the difference between smoking room and boudoir had
been erased?
Negligently to place those long ivory and mother-of-pearl
cigarette-holders to their lips and swathing their femininity in a
typically masculine veil, became the height of Parisian
elegance.
To mark the dawn of female liberation, in 1919 CARON dared to
dedicate the deliberately provocative Tabac Blond to these
beautiful androgynes.
Mild and powerful, coppery overtones combined with a floral
heart note. True to type.