Boss pour femme, the perfume of the Boss woman
Alongside the big nose Edmond Roudnitska, Marcel Rochas composes this Woman as a sensual and carnal ode to the one he loves but also to all those who inspire him. A true fragrance of absolute femininity, Femme exudes an air of freedom to the women of the Liberation ...
Woman I love you or Woman of Rochas ...
Rochas perfumes had already seduced women in the 1930s with pretty fragrances with evocative names such as Audace or Air Jeune. But the perfume was still missing which, like the house's feminine models, would know how to create a full identity for itself, breathe a new air like Marcel Rochas loves to distill them in his couture.
During the war, Marcel Rochas met the great Edmond Roudnitska to whom he spoke about his crazy project to create a perfume in honor of his future wife, Hélène. The nose, already so talented, then presented him with a unique composition around a synthetic material which, associated with prunol, formed a scent of totally delicious candied plum. By adding splendid flowers, a chypre base and some fruity spices, a fragrance of absolutely new sensuality is born: Femme de Rochas.
Released in 1944, Femme de Rochas was a huge success with women who, at the end of the war, were only looking for brilliant novelties and scents that would exude the joy of life and sensuality. Like an elixir of love, Femme de Rochas invented a new way to perfume and love yourself in a bottle ...
Femme de Rochas, a sensual chypre with absolute femininity
Offered as the brilliant and disturbing silhouette of a dream woman, the bottle of Femme de Rochas was first made in Lalique crystal in order to create such voluptuous curves. The glamorous black lace which then decorated the packaging of Femme was of course a reference to the creation that Marcel Rochas made a few years earlier for Mae West, a great actress.
The beautiful composition of Edmond Roudnitska offers in an opening ballet pretty fruit notes between a velvety peach and a sparkling bergamot. The plum appears as candied to better blend in with the precious flowery heart of "this" Woman. Indeed the choir orchestrated around jasmine, rose and ylang-ylang sends us its splendours by coloring itself with some exotic and spicy scents of immortelle. Finally, the chypre sensualities built around ambergris, patchouli, oak moss and sandalwood are wrapped in a sparkling cumin to create a deep and spicy trail to the so beloved Woman of Rochas.
“Madly in love with Hélène, his wife recently, Marcel Rochas urges Edmond Roudnitska to concoct a perfume of absolute femininity for him. A fragrance that captures the style of his sculptural creations with heightened sensuality. »Interparfums (owner of Rochas) for Women.