Caron fragrances: pure luxury!
A young provincial from a Jewish bourgeois family, Ernest Daltroff has, as is his custom, a very normal childhood. It was without counting on a destiny already written and on the small details of his life, with the ordinary appearance, that will lead him quite naturally to become the essential perfumer of the twentieth century.
Caron: lovers of life, lovers of beautiful things
Ernest Daltroff remembers his dear mother, who often put a few drops of her perfume behind her ear. The pleasure that this smell gave him greatly motivated his desire to reproduce this fragile pleasure. After studying chemistry, the young graduate landed in Paris in 1902 and bought, with his brother Raoul, an old haberdashery-perfumery that he named "Maison Caron". Providence knocks at her door: her neighbor is nothing but a sublime and brilliant young woman, Felicie Wanpouille, who will accompany her in her private and professional life until her death. She will be a true source of inspiration for the creator and a pillar in dark moments. Their collaboration allows cult perfumes, such as "Narcisse Noir", "Pour Un Homme" or "Ravissement" and many more, to see the light of day.
The perfectionist reflection of Caron
If there is one thing that Ernest Daltroff and his companion Felicie share without restraint, it is indeed this concern for perfection in everything that can touch near or far to the creation of a perfume. Ernest Daltroff is inspired very freely by what he lives, by what surrounds him, by his tendencies, but also and especially by his intuition. It is thanks to this last that he decides, despite the restraint of many of his fellow men, to release a perfume dedicated to men. "For a man" wants to be shocking, masculine and feminine at the same time. Lavender mingles lovingly with vanilla, both enhanced by the strength and power of the tonka bean. Success was not long in coming, and the Caron house was the first to propose a juice for these men of the beginning of the century, who rarely perfumed themselves, and often with a common cologne.
Caron perfumes: an unshakable constant
The great strength of the Caron house is undoubtedly the constancy and rigor of the two creators. Ernest Daltroff knows how to constantly renew himself by keeping a straight line that he will never leave. His companion Felicie shares this rigor and adopts strict principles that make the success of her perfumes: she privileges mystery and word of mouth to mass communication, which she thinks detrimental in the more or less long term. It is therefore in the intimacy of the small shop at 10, rue de la Paix in Paris, that she exhibits and sells her unique creations. Then come a plethora of sales outlets around the world that adopt the same position.
The bottles do not deviate from the rule: often drawn by Felicie in person, they adopt all the codes of luxury and perfection. The crystal of Baccarat is a very often used material and confers to these fabulous juices all their beauty and their supremacy.
In the 1980s, the shop on Avenue Montaigne took over the codes of Félicie Wanpouille and Ernest Daltroff, presenting Caron's greatest perfumes in the famous fountains, which added a golden layer to the glory of these incomparable fragrances.
The constancy quoted above is still valid today: the choice of raw materials favoring rare natural essences, the work of "little hands" to seal the corks, intimate communication are all principles to which the "Maison Caron" derogates not. It is also possible not to mention the Caron free powder which remains, to this day, the finest in the world.
The result, once again, of rigorous and perfectionist work and research.
