FEMME PARFUM ROCHAS PARIS 1/2 fl. oz. - RARE 1944 NEW

YOU ARE BIDDING ON THE ORIGINAL 1944 FEMME MARCEL ROCHAS PARFUM BOTTLE. THE ORIGINAL LID ON THE BOX IS COVERED WITH BLACK LACE AND INSIDE THE LID IS WRITTEN IN GOLDEN LETTERS MARCEL ROCHAS, PARIS. THE CURVACEOUS COMPLETELY INTACT BOTTLE IS FLOATING IN WHITE LACE TIED WITH A WHITE SILK ROPE TO A WHITE SILK COVERED CARDBOARD. THE TOP OF THE BOTTLE IS COVERED IN SILK PAPER. THE BOTTOM OF THE BOX IS COVERED IN BLACK SOFT VELOUR AND THE GOLDEN LETTERS MADE IN FRANCE. INSIDE THE BOTTOM OF THE BOX IS FOUND A FOLDED SILK PAPER AND A FRENCH CONTROL NUMBER. I am selling the collection for my mother-on-law who is in a nursing home. The money will go to her upkeep. She had received The Femme perfume 1944 from a former suitor.

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There are times when I reflect upon a fragrance to realize that it has been painted by the brush of a rampant personality, bigger than life, more enduring than the everyday routine. And those precious, troubling fragrances make it to my heart almost without my consent. Femme by Rochas , the glorious classic chypre, is one such fragrance, if only because I had learned a long time ago by a friend that it was the signature scent of Melina Merkouri. Even Melina's name fits the rapport: it means "honeyed". I hadn't experienced this classic yet and when I did it was with this knowledge at the back of my mind.

Melina was a Greek actress and politician, famous from the cradle almost as she was the grand-daughter of a well-known mayor and the wife of acclaimed franco-american McCarthy "victim" director Jules Dassin. And her passionate campaign for the return of the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles to their birthplace assured a fond place in our hearts for her.
Those who have known her or even glimpsed a bit into her intense, passionate life and personality cannot forget her, even though it's been more than a decade she has been dead.
And although Femme was perhaps the first decisive foray into gourmand territory (by its creator's own admission: "very gourmande, very patiserrie") with its delectable fruity notes of succulent plum and peaches, it rested them on a bed of rather poignant amber and oakmoss base with powdery touches that suggested the hardship of the time it was conceived: World War II.

There is dryness alongside the initial lemony aldehydic spike and you'd be hard pressed to dissect individual notes, as the symphony unfolds on your skin.
Edmond Roudnitska used a methyl ionone compound he had smelled inside a forgotten barrel at a paint factory beside which he had been working during the rationed days of the war in 1944 Nazi-occupied Paris; this is when couturier Marcel Rochas came to him commissioning him a feminine scent for his beautiful young bride Helene.
And this is what gives Femme its sugarplum quality that contributed to its copious sensuality, of which a glimpse can be taken by looking at the curvaceous bottle originally encased in a lace-interlayed box.