Launched in 1993 under the designer’s name before becoming Classique, Jean Paul Gaultier’s first fragrance is signed by Jacques Cavallier. The house classifies it as an amber floral: ginger at the top, orange blossom for the heart, vanilla in the base, over an evocation of rice powder. Its bottle, a glass bust laced into a corset, made its legend.
A glass bust laced into a corset, originally sold in a metal tin can; refillable, in 30, 50 and 100 ml.
The bottle is a woman’s torso in glass, on which the corset is drawn, the signature piece of Jean Paul Gaultier’s womenswear. The house stresses its conical points, a neckline molded in the glass, a 60-centimeter waist and 90-centimeter hips.
Originally, Elena Vosnaki recalls, the corset was made of pink metal; it later became a frosted-glass garment set over the smooth glass of the bust. She finds it strikingly close to the dressmaker’s-dummy bust of Shocking, Schiaparelli’s perfume.
The outer packaging is a metal tin can instead of cardboard, inside a brownish-beige box that evokes freight. Gaultier compared it to supermarket cat food tins; Robin reports that a few retailers initially refused the fragrance because of it.
The bust lends itself to series: every year, Robin notes, the house re-dresses it, sometimes more than once, for a new limited edition or a summer version. Today it comes in refillable 30, 50 or 100 ml bottles.
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