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"The room smelled of her perfume (at some point I asked her what it was, and Colette said: " Jicky. The Empress Eugenie always wore it. I like it because it's an old-fashioned scent with an elegant history, and because it's witty without being coarse--like the better conversationalists. Proust wore it. Or so Cocteau tells me. But then he is not too reliable.)"
~ From Truman Capote's "Answered Prayers"*
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*appearing in Susan Irvine's guide & echoed by ewojdula/mua
Thanks E - I never knew Capote met Colette. Her novels were a large part of my early 20s.
ReplyDeleteProper perfume commentry - & suggesting a sensibility about scent that values things that the mainstream today runs screaming from.
ReplyDeleteall i know is that the first time i smelled jicky, i felt as though the perfumer had reached deep down inside me, turned me inside out, and made this perfume out of me. it was that intensely personal. have never had a similar experience with a perfume. must've worn it in a past life!
ReplyDeleteobviously, i love jicky! and what great quotes and "history!" you always come up with the fun stuff!
cheers,
minette
You just got to love Jicky!!!
ReplyDeleteIts really what I call a "French Perfume!"
There is a style about it and I have read that Bridget Bardot , Jacqi O and Sean Connery are fans of Jicky too!
Dear Shrine
ReplyDeleteLovely quote and interesting too - if any of its contents are true.
Eugenie would have been in her mid-sixties when the scent arrived (though Guerlain might have made it available to her before release) and as for Proust - like Colette, I have my doubts he could have stomached so robust a smell!
Yours ever
The Perfumed Dandy