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Emeraude: The Perfume Your Grandmother Wore Before It Was Ruined

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💚 Before Shalimar became the legend, there was Emeraude.

In this video from Perfume Archives, we dive into the forgotten story of François Coty’s 1921 masterpiece: the amber oriental fragrance many believe helped shape, or even directly inspire, Guerlain’s Shalimar. From Coty’s rise as a self-made perfume revolutionary to the tragic decline of Emeraude into a bargain-bin shadow of itself, this is a fragrance history story filled with brilliance, controversy, and loss.

We explore:
• who François Coty really was
• how he transformed modern perfumery
• why Emeraude mattered so much
• the long-running Emeraude vs Shalimar debate
• how corporate ownership and reformulation erased a masterpiece
• why vintage perfume lovers still chase the original bottles

If you love perfume history, vintage fragrances, forgotten classics, and the stories behind iconic scents, this one is for you.

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00:00 Intro
02:21 Coty Enters The World Of Perfumery
05:18 Branding Beauty With Rene Lalique
08:10 Emeraude Changes Perfume History
10:40 The Emeraude And Shalimar Debate
12:45 A Luxury Fragrance For Ordinary Women
14:08 Coty’s Decline After Francois Coty
16:30 Pfizer Turns A Masterpiece Into A Drugstore Product
19:45 Why Emeraude Could Never Be Restored
22:19 Vintage Collectors Keep Emeraude Alive
24:12 Shalimar Survives While Emeraude Fades
26:39 Outro

10 Comments

@ann-mariemeyers9978 11 days ago

Emeraude was my fragrance in high school. My friends all wore Love's Baby Soft. I recently purchased a small decant of vintage 1920s Emeraude. I now know I had excellent taste even as a teenage girl.

@justjen7183 6 hours ago

I loved emeraude 💚

@christinescheriff5917 10 days ago

As someone who's grandmother and mother had both emeraude and Shalimar in the early 80s I can attest to how close they were in scent.

@kealani6535 12 days ago (edited)

This vid is brilliant. Most antique and vintage fragrances were reformulated within a few decades of launch. Expense is certainly the main reason, also reflected in the cheaper bottles and packaging.

@MelanieAF 9 days ago

This reminded me that I have some of the Coty vintage perfumes, including La Rose Jacqueminot, Chypre, Emeraude, and Amber Antique. I think I have a few others-I need to go through my vintage collection. I’ve been collecting for decades but stopped wearing the vintages years ago, I copped out to the easier to live up to, more modern niche perfumes. Though I’ve been disgusted with the state of perfumery for a while and dont buy anything like I used to.

I used to grow some General Jacqueminot heirloom roses, but I live on the humid Gulf Coast and it’s a chore to fight the black spot. But they smell so lovely, much more so than the showier modem roses, that I may give it another try. I always loved the Marechal Neil tea rose too.

@MsLouisVee 8 days ago

Ah yes. Emeraude. “ want him to be more of a man? Try being more of a woman” 50 years later I still remember that ad
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@MsLouisVee 8 days ago

Warning: all the original scents have been altered. They will not wear down the same they will not have the same effect.

@MsLouisVee 8 days ago (edited)

I can tell you what other perfumes have been reformulated and made into shadows of their original….. Miss Dior, Chanel number 19, Arpege, Cinnabar by Estée Lauder, Intimate by Revlon, Initial by Boucheron.
😢

@Bellapink96 9 days ago

Coty made a Master piece when he made LONGING by Coty was and will never will be something so beautiful and thats coming out of a (coleccionista). LONGING A HEAD Turner if you were wearing longing everybody will stop you to know what you were wearing believe me and I'm not talking about one person two person a day,.. I'm talking about five or more i dont know why but that was my life back then .. even the commercial and póster of LONGING said ( Make a man Remember) make the moment unforgettable..