Halston
Studio 54 minimalism, bottled by Elsa Peretti.
Halston the fragrance line grew out of Roy Halston Frowick's New York fashion house, which by the mid-1970s had become shorthand for a particular Studio 54 idea of American glamour — minimalist jersey, cashmere, ultrasuede. The first scent, Halston Classic, arrived in 1975, composed by Bernard Chant and presented in a curved teardrop flacon designed by Elsa Peretti. Within two years it was generating $85 million in sales. Halston Z-14 followed for men in 1976, and through the eighties the line expanded with Halston 1-12, Couture and Catalyst. After Halston's death in 1990 the fragrance license moved through several owners, and the brand now sits in the drugstore tier, with the original Classic and Z-14 still in circulation. It suits wearers drawn to chypres, oakmoss and the glossy, decisive scents of late-seventies New York.
DNA over time
Each column is an era. Each colored band shows that family’s share of accord weight across every perfume the house released in that window. Bigger band = the house leaned harder on that family.
