Paul Parquet
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Paul Parquet was an influential French perfumer
and joint owner of Houbigant
.
house of Houbigant
as a part owner in 1880, and was the nose behind their most famous early creations, such as
He was the chief perfumer of the house, succeeded by Robert Bienaimé, the creator of Quelques Fleurs (Houbigant
, 1912).
in Fougère Royal, juxtaposed to lavender
, citrus
and wood
y notes, he revolutionized perfumery in being the first perfumer to ever use a synthetic fragrance material in his creations, and in conceptualizing a scent that was not an imitation of a natural smell, as ferns (fougère is French for fern) are basically odorless. Until its disappearance from the market in the late 1960s, Fougère Royale was often imitated and became the most typical representative of a whole family of related fragrance, the so-called fougère
perfumes.
Perfumer
A perfumer is a term used for an expert on creating perfume compositions, sometimes referred to affectionately as a Nose due to their fine sense of smell and skill in producing olfactory compositions...
and joint owner of Houbigant
Houbigant
Houbigant may refer to:* Charles François Houbigant, Biblical scholar* Houbigant , perfume manufacturer...
.
Career
Paul Parquet joined the perfumePerfume
Perfume is a mixture of fragrant essential oils and/or aroma compounds, fixatives, and solvents used to give the human body, animals, objects, and living spaces "a pleasant scent"...
house of Houbigant
Houbigant
Houbigant may refer to:* Charles François Houbigant, Biblical scholar* Houbigant , perfume manufacturer...
as a part owner in 1880, and was the nose behind their most famous early creations, such as
- Fougère Royale (HoubigantHoubigantHoubigant may refer to:* Charles François Houbigant, Biblical scholar* Houbigant , perfume manufacturer...
, 1882) - Le Parfum Idéal (HoubigantHoubigantHoubigant may refer to:* Charles François Houbigant, Biblical scholar* Houbigant , perfume manufacturer...
, 1896) - Violette Pourpre (HoubigantHoubigantHoubigant may refer to:* Charles François Houbigant, Biblical scholar* Houbigant , perfume manufacturer...
, 1907) - Coeur de Jeannette (HoubigantHoubigantHoubigant may refer to:* Charles François Houbigant, Biblical scholar* Houbigant , perfume manufacturer...
, 1912)
He was the chief perfumer of the house, succeeded by Robert Bienaimé, the creator of Quelques Fleurs (Houbigant
Houbigant
Houbigant may refer to:* Charles François Houbigant, Biblical scholar* Houbigant , perfume manufacturer...
, 1912).
Importancee
With his use of coumarinCoumarin
Coumarin is a fragrant chemical compound in the benzopyrone chemical class, found in many plants, notably in high concentration in the tonka bean , vanilla grass , sweet woodruff , mullein , sweet grass , cassia cinnamon and sweet clover...
in Fougère Royal, juxtaposed to lavender
Lavender
The lavenders are a genus of 39 species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. An Old World genus, distributed from Macaronesia across Africa, the Mediterranean, South-West Asia, Arabia, Western Iran and South-East India...
, citrus
Citrus
Citrus is a common term and genus of flowering plants in the rue family, Rutaceae. Citrus is believed to have originated in the part of Southeast Asia bordered by Northeastern India, Myanmar and the Yunnan province of China...
and wood
Wood
Wood is a hard, fibrous tissue found in many trees. It has been used for hundreds of thousands of years for both fuel and as a construction material. It is an organic material, a natural composite of cellulose fibers embedded in a matrix of lignin which resists compression...
y notes, he revolutionized perfumery in being the first perfumer to ever use a synthetic fragrance material in his creations, and in conceptualizing a scent that was not an imitation of a natural smell, as ferns (fougère is French for fern) are basically odorless. Until its disappearance from the market in the late 1960s, Fougère Royale was often imitated and became the most typical representative of a whole family of related fragrance, the so-called fougère
Fougère
Fougère, , meaning "fern-like", is one of the main families into which modern perfumes are classified, with the name derived from the perfume Fougère Royale for Houbigant formulated by the perfumer Paul Parquet. The class of fragrances have the basic accord with a top-note of lavender and...
perfumes.