Saturday, November 6, 2021

Brigand c1946

Brigand is the same as Bandit. It had to be renamed for export to other countries due to a trademark held by another company in the US at the time. Some packaging can be found with a label with the wording "Brigand in US is in every respect identical with that known as BANDIT in the rest of the world".



No Paris couturier thought a woman completely dressed without perfume. So Robert Piguet created Visa and Brigand (Bandit) to complement his beautiful clothes.


Fragrance Composition:


So what does it smell like? It is classified as an aromatic floral leather chypre fragrance for women. It starts with a dry, fresh herbaceous top, followed by a dry floral heart, resting on a warm, leathery, mossy base. A potpourri of jasmine, leather and wood topped with carnation.
  • Top notes: armoise, gardenia, galbanum, artemisia, bergamot, aldehydes, marigold
  • Middle notes: rose, orris, wild carnation, Tunisian orange blossom, Grasse jasmine, spices
  • Base notes: tobacco, Tibetan musk, leather, sandalwood, vetiver, ambergris, patchouli, myrrh, castoreum, oakmoss, Ethiopian civet

It is a potpourri of jasmine, leather and wood topped with carnation.

Germaine Cellier was very bold in the composition of Bandit when she added an overdose of 1% isobutyl quinoline to create the intensely animalic leather, amber and tobacco note and styrallyl acetate (2%) that formed part of a fully developed gardenia complex with undecylenic aldehyde.



Bottles:



The crystal parfum bottles were made by Pochet et du Courval in France:
  • 1/8 oz Purse size mini
  • 1/4 oz bottle stands 2.25"tall
  • 1/2 oz - bottle stands 2.5" tall  
  • 1 oz - bottle stands  3 3/8” tall 
  • 2 oz bottle stands 4.25" tall
  • 4 oz
  • 8 oz

Brigand (Robert Piguet, Paris; John Robert Powers Co., NYC, distributor). Good. Heavy spicy note; dissonant, "modernistic."






The 1956 edition of Consumer Reports, lists the following prices for Brigand perfume.
  • 1/2 oz., $9
  • 1 oz., $30
  • 2 oz., $50


The Salt Lake Tribune, 1948:
"Brigand" is the perfume with which the French women are spraying themselves from tip to toe. When madame swishes into a drawing room with taffeta petticoats rustling, she smells as glamourous as she looks and sounds, having been "atomized" with the Piguet perfume - not mere cologne. Not quite so dramatic but just as lush is the new perfume - scented viva scarf, which is used as a halter, a headpiece, a bathing suit or - by the more timid - just a scarf. Gaily decorated with names of leading cities of the world, the scarf, made of real silk, is perfumed by being baked in an oven. The scent is guaranteed to stick with the filmy square for two years, never dissipated by launderings, cleanings or bombings."

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