Ladies and gentlemen, the show can begin...
The Café Chantant was a popular form of concert café, particularly in Paris in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and became the birthplace of modern chanson.
The fragrance ‘Café Chantant’ by Nobile 1942 is inspired by the French establishments of the Belle Époque of the same name. The ‘Singing Café’ contained elements of a cabaret, a concert venue and a vaudeville theatre, and usually had an open-air area, even if it was not entirely outdoors. The atmosphere was exuberant – what else?
A cheerful murmur, happy laughter, ladies in breathtaking Belle Époque dresses, their chypre-heavy perfumes mingling with the smell of tobacco from the gentlemen, ready to enjoy the show from a table in the front row.
This ‘joie de vivre’, the pure zest for life at the end of the 19th century, took the European capitals by storm. A wave of optimism spread and influenced Italian artists in particular.
Famous writers and artists were regulars at the most popular Italian café chantants. The ladies had great fun regularly imitating the gestures and clothing of those women in the cafés and driving their men crazy.
