But it was Jicky, the luscious floral fragrance created by the founder's son, ... The fragrance, imagined by Guerlain's current perfumer, Thierry Wasser, took some 450 days to perfect. 2.

Guerlain, the house which invented modern perfumery, ... Then there is the old bottle of Jicky, the world’s first modern perfume. Created in 1889, ...

Guerlain, among the world's oldest perfume houses, is just 13 years shy of its 200th anniversary. La Petite Robe Noire – let's call her PRN – is the latest fragrance from La Guerlinade, a ...

Jicky is often called the first synthetic perfume. The name was a diminutive of Jacques, the nephew of Aimé Guerlain, and was intended for both men and women – at that time, fragrances were ...

Today, New York's Museum of Arts and Design opened a new exhibit, The Art of Scent 1889-2012, on—you guessed it—the design of perfume.

A su muerte, en 1864, su hijo Aimé Guerlain toma su testigo, convirtiéndose en el nuevo perfumista de la casa. Su obra maestra sería Jicky, un perfume inspirado en una joven inglesa de la que ...

There are two types of perfume in the world: ... (1882) made use of synthetic coumarin, originally isolated in tonka beans in 1820, while Guerlain’s Jicky (1889) ...

Among the world’s oldest and most prestigious perfume houses, Guerlain was founded in Paris in 1828. For almost 170 years, ... In 1889, Aimé created Jicky, ...