Corday

Corday is a Parisian perfume house founded in 1924 by Blanche Arvoy, who named the maison after Charlotte Corday, the revolutionary-era figure whose silhouette and name became part of the brand's romantic mid-century image. Through the 1930s, '40s and '50s Corday sat inside the wider French perfume establishment, with releases such as Toujours Moi, Fame, Tzigane, Jet and Possession finding international audiences and even a place in Harry Revel's "Perfume Set to Music." Toujours Moi, an oriental floral first launched in 1924, remains the house's emblematic scent and circulates today through both vintage collectors and a relaunched line under the Jovoy stewardship that has revived the trademark. Compositions are classically structured, powdery and resinous in the inter-war French manner. Corday suits wearers drawn to the warm, slightly theatrical perfumery of the early twentieth century.