Pierre Cardin Cardin for Women (1975): fragrance lore & musings

 Some perfumes seem to exist in limbo. No one has really known them intimately, yet their reputation lives on. Oddly enough, as my colleague Sergey highlighted in his review of the chypre Cardin de Pierre Cardin,"If you go to the Pierre Cardin official website, you will not find this fragrance on it. There, officially, the feminine perfume history of the brand begins in 1981, with Choc de Cardin. As if there was no Cardin de Pierre Cardin (1975) perfume at all. Meanwhile, vintage advertisements and vintage bottles say the opposite." 

 

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My view is similar to his, in that it presents a very interesting, yet disturbing phenomenon: Companies re-inventing their past, but contrary to -say- Creed, by omission. As if they want to focus only on the present, or at the very least on what they consider sell-able still. As fragrant history attests,"at least two more Pierre Cardin fragrances were released for women – the floral chypre Suite 16 Pierre Cardin and the green Singulier Pierre Cardin. A couple perfumes more, Amadis and Geste For Men, were also launched around the same time, as Mr. Pierre Cardin opened his Eve and Adam boutiques in Paris, sharing their bottle design with Suite 16." 

Cardin for women was the first fragrance from the house of Pierre Cardin, launched in 1976 according to Fragrantica. It opens with notes of citrus, aldehydes, bergamot, clove and cumin. The heart is a bouquet of flowers such as roses, ylang-ylang and jasmine and woody notes of oak and cedar. The base consists of amber, civet, musk, labdanum, moss, sandalwood and vetiver. Available as EDT, EDP and perfume.

So is Pierre Cardin's Cardin for Women anywhere to be found? I would love to know.