Caron
French brand of perfumes created in 1904 in Asnières by Ernest Daltroff (1870-1941). The first fragrances, Royal Caron and Chantecler, in 1906, were followed by many others, including Narcisse Noir, Tabac Blond, and Bellodgia. Starting in 1911, they were always sold in elegant Baccarat crystal bottles. In 1921, the year in which Daltroff found a wise “nose and blending” partner in Michel Morsetti, the perfume Nuit de NoÍl marked the début of the American subsidiary of Caron Corporation on Firth Avenue in New York, an address just as prestigious as that of the Paris salon at Place VendÂme 10. Among Caron’s most celebrated fragrances (Caron was the name of a mythical acrobat at the beginning of the last century) are L’Infini (created in 1912 and relaunched in 1970), Fleurs de Rocaille (1933), and Le Muguet du Bohneur, launched, according to the French custom, on May 1st, in 1952. Closer to our time was the success of Nocturnes in 1981. The studded boxes of the powder Peau Fines, created in the 1930s, have been much-imitated objects of female desire. In 1987, Caron was absorbed by the group Cora-Revillon.