Just after World War II ended, Carmen de Tommaso, a French-born who originally studied architecture and interior design, opened a couture ho...

The historic brand of Carven (founded by Madame Carmen de Tommaso in 1945 with an atelier on the Champs-Élysées) has been snatched by the g...

Vetiver seriously entered the consciousness of the West at some point in the 19th century, along with its brotherly Indian counterpart patch...

Mademoiselle Carven defined her fragrant prototype as "an outdoor perfume that needs to give up its heady character", resembling h...