SCENT OF A WOMAN
History's rebels get a fragrance of their own.
At the turn of the 20th century, makeup was a secret weapon in the arsenal of freedom-seeking women. Suffrage leaders such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman wore lipstick to protests as an outward sign of rebellion (at that time, only prostitutes regularly put on rouge). Flappers chopped off their hair as a way to differentiate themselves from their Victorian parents.
Today, wearing lipstick or cutting your locks isn’t the shocker it once was. But for Crazylibellule and the Poppies, your beauty routine is still a way to celebrate rebellious women. The solid-perfume company’s new collection for fall, Les Garconnes, is inspired by the early leaders of the women’s rights movement.
The seven scents range from the comforting notes of peach and apricot in Tamara Charleston to the edgy leather and peony blend in Hommage a Gabrielle. Like the women who inspired them, the fragrances are bold and daring, with graphic art nouveau-influenced flowers covering the pocket size packaging. And because not even cumbersome skirts could keep people like Perkins Gilman at home, the glass-less perfumes are easy to tote around.
Which means that the leaders of the women’s movement not only did good, but smelled good, too.
REBECCA WILLA DAVIS
$16 at beautyhabit.com.
Today, wearing lipstick or cutting your locks isn’t the shocker it once was. But for Crazylibellule and the Poppies, your beauty routine is still a way to celebrate rebellious women. The solid-perfume company’s new collection for fall, Les Garconnes, is inspired by the early leaders of the women’s rights movement.
The seven scents range from the comforting notes of peach and apricot in Tamara Charleston to the edgy leather and peony blend in Hommage a Gabrielle. Like the women who inspired them, the fragrances are bold and daring, with graphic art nouveau-influenced flowers covering the pocket size packaging. And because not even cumbersome skirts could keep people like Perkins Gilman at home, the glass-less perfumes are easy to tote around.
Which means that the leaders of the women’s movement not only did good, but smelled good, too.
REBECCA WILLA DAVIS
$16 at beautyhabit.com.
This story was published on August 21, 2009.
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Rosalips
08/21/2009
I think this is a lovely idea. The scents sound really nice and the packaging is tres chic....
These are women who should be appreciated and remembered and this is a stylish, original way of paying homage to them. There seems to be a growing number of girls who think that being feminist isn't something that's cool - plain stupid if you ask me (so you don't want to be paid the same wage as your male co-worker then, no?). I think we should stop taking our freedom of expression for granted....and why not smell good while we do so!
Dominique
08/21/2009
I think that perfume is an excellent way to represent what the suffragettes stood for! The perfume a women uses has the ability to make each woman into an individual rather than a group of meek human beings that many men portrayed women to be during the time period these women were fighting for their rights. Perfume allows a woman to feel elegant and in charge. The affect of just one scent can ultimately take control of an entire room just because of the intrigue that accompanies her beautiful and admirable scent. These women were strong willed and courageous, and by selecting a scent named after such remarkable people it can (as I’m sure was the purpose of this incredibly well thought out marketing technique) inspire other women into being just as brave and assertive.
sharon
08/21/2009
bravo nylon!
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