Cacharel’s first fragrance, Anaïs Anaïs came out in 1978. Four Firmenich perfumers, Raymond Chaillan, Paul Léger, Robert Gonnon, and Roger Pellegrino, composed it around the lily for young girls. Sold since 2014 as Anaïs Anaïs L’Original, it is a green floral eau de toilette: hyacinth and honeysuckle, lily, lily of the valley and rose, sandalwood and musk, in a white opaline bottle.
A white opaline bottle designed by Annegret Beier, dressed in flowers and topped with a silver cap inspired by old perfume jars.
The house describes a white opaline bottle adorned with a silver cap inspired by old perfume jars, to hold this bouquet of tenderness. Maïté Turonnet, in L’Express, links it to eighteenth-century perfume jars and attributes its design to Annegret Beier.
Its sobriety was then something of a revolution, notes L’Express, since the bottles of the time were anything but sober. Chant Wagner, citing Michael Edwards, reports that the final formula was chosen to match this white bottle as closely as possible, a nod to nineteenth-century dressing tables.
The Perfume Intelligence encyclopedia describes a round, cream-colored bottle banded with the name on a background of flowers. Elena Vosnaki mentions in 2011 the opaline with pastel flowers; in 2015, she found the current bottle pinker than the old one, all white with a silver cap.