In honor of St. Patrick’s Day and “the Emerald Isle,” here’s a 1949 advertisement for Coty’s Emeraude — French for “emerald.”
Emeraude was released in 1921. It’s an “oriental” composition of orange, bergamot, tarragon, jasmine, ylang ylang, rose, rosewood, amber, sandalwood, patchouli, opoponax, benzoin, and vanilla; it has frequently been compared to Guerlain Shalimar, released four years later.
This illustration by René Jeandot represents Emeraude as a siren-like woman wearing a one-shouldered deep green gown, a bottle of perfume held lightly between her fingertips as she turns her face to the wind…
