Diva, the fragrance of all goddesses. It was in 1965 that Emmanuel Ungaro, of Italian origin, founded the fashion house of the same name. Ungaro likes to work with colors and prints, juxtaposing polka dots or stripes.
The Emanuel Ungaro fashion house has offered bold, strongly characterized and highly feminine collections since 1965. As a result, when the couturier decided to create fragrances, it was obvious that they would represent a woman confident in herself, in her femininity and in her powers of seduction. Diva, Ungaro’s very first fragrance, would embody that essence. A chic and striking fragrance, composed by two leading figures of the perfume organ, Jacques Polge and François Demachy.
Diva, Ungaro, Jacques Polge and Chanel
When it comes to describing the style of Ungaro’s couture collections, the first word that seems to come to mind is femininity. Ungaro dresses are designed to enhance women and highlight their delicate curves in beautiful draping. It goes without saying that the very first fragrance composed for the couturier had to be just as luminous and glamorous as his silky dresses.
Diva would thus be the fragrance that exhales the Ungaro style, from its scent to its precious draped bottle, and there is no doubt that the Diva woman would be dressed in a fragrance as precious as her dress. Especially given that it was two masters of perfumery, Jacques Polge and François Demachy, who worked on the composition of the beautiful Ungaro Diva.
Indeed, both perfumers are particularly well known: Jacques Polge as the in-house perfumer of the great house of Chanel, and François Demachy as the in-house perfumer, still in the role, at the house of Dior. But both men also worked on other projects, notably because the Ungaro perfume house was owned by Chanel for many years. In any case, Ungaro’s Diva is one of the rare fragrances that can boast of having been composed by these two absolute masters of modern perfumery. This exceptional quality would make Diva a fragrance that not only reigned in its opulence over the 80s but also became a cult fragrance of the era.
Diva, the fragrance of a beautiful, passionate and mysterious wildflower
Whenever the names Jacques Polge and François Demachy appear in the composition of a fragrance, one already knows to expect a fragrance of character, original, richly floral and made with raw materials of great quality.
As for the character of Diva, it is conveyed first by the dynamism of its highly citrus top notes, but also by its exotic heart of opulent flowers, including the majestic, powerful and deeply mysterious tuberose. Of course, it is the animalic and honeyed depths that envelop the wearer in a unique sillage, with a bold, distinctive personality.
As for flowers, a great love of François Demachy, they are not forgotten in this magnificent Diva either. However, they are less bucolic here than in the perfumer’s usual creations. In Diva, the flowers are spicy, aldehydic, sulfurous, spellbinding. Rose dons its sun-kissed attire of ylang-ylang, while tuberose envelops it in a veil of deep mystery.