Perfumer
jean carles
Editor’s note pending — every credited perfumer eventually gets a written profile here.
Credits6 perfumes
Houses3
SignatureFloral
Catalog · 6
The compositions
Dior · 1947
Miss Dior Parfum
Carven · 1946
Ma Griffe Parfum
Dior · 1947
Miss Dior
The original Miss Dior opens with a green sharpness—galbanum and sage cutting through gardenia's creamy heft—before cascading into a white floral avalanche.
Carven · 1946
Ma Griffe Eau de Parfum (Vintage)
The gardenia opens with an almost stemmy bitterness, flanked by lemon and the herbal rasp of clary sage—this is not the polite floral you might expect from 1946.
Dana · 1932
Tabu
Tabu opens with a burst of brightness—neroli and citrus that quickly give way to something darker and more insistent.
Dana · 1936