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Robert Piguet

Piguet - Rue du Cirque

Not far from the Champs-Élysées in the heart of Paris, Robert Piguet opened his first studio on Rue du Cirque, hoping that his adopted home would contribute to his long-awaited professional success. His wish came true – Piguet conquered the fashion world with his haute couture and the hearts of perfume lovers from all over the world with his fragrances. As promising as the city of love itself, Rue du Cirque captivates us, not least because it has the power to surprise: it opens with a sensational fireworks display of dazzling citrus notes that reveal both sweet ripeness and tart freshness, skillfully contrasted by nutmeg. Rue du Cirque wastes no time in astonishing us when it reveals its complexity: the citrus fruits are joined by flowers entwined with aromatic green foliage, as well as a soft, clean lily of the valley, rose-like geranium, creamy jasmine, and exotic gardenia.

Like a chiaroscuro painting, Rue du Cirque plays with light and shadow, revealing an unexpectedly dark, velvety, and utterly sensual side, underscored by delicious praline notes and silky, powdery musk. The beginning of a passionate love affair – Rue du Cirque.

Rue du Cirque is a finalist in the Fragrance Foundation 2024 Indie Fragrance of the Year awards.

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The famous fashion designer and perfumer Robert Piguet was born in 1898 in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland. At the age of 17, despite fierce opposition from his family, he moved to Paris, where his first attempt to make a name for himself in the fashion world by opening his own shop on Avenue Montaigne failed. Nevertheless, he remained true to his ambition and initially worked for the fashion designer Paul Poiret and the fashion house Redfern. In 1933, the time had finally come to open his own salon on Rue du Cirque, which he later relocated to the Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées due to its continued success. During this period of his great breakthrough, Christian Dior, Hubert de Givenchy, and Pierre Balmain worked for him, all of whom would later found their own, now famous, houses.

Piguet always moved in artistic circles and so he designed numerous costumes for stage performances, for example for well-known names such as Jean Cocteau, Colette, Sacha Guitry and Édith Piaf.

In 1944, Robert Piguet set out to conquer the perfume market: He released the now legendary leathery chypre fragrance "Bandit," created by the exceptional perfumer Germaine Cellier, the first celebrity female perfumer ever. And as the name suggests, this fragrance lent the wearer a wild and rebellious aura, which Marlene Dietrich, among others, used. No less famous was "Fracas," also created by Cellier, which became one of the most famous tuberose fragrances of all time – Madonna is said to be a big fan of it. Both fragrances are now true classics, and since their reintroduction, they have been delivered in the simple, Bauhaus-inspired bottles that underline their historical yet modern character.

Robert Piguet could not find a successor for his fashion house and so it was to be closed in 1951, two years before his death.

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