Fidji is Guy Laroche’s first fragrance, launched in 1966 and composed by Joséphine Catapano. The house classifies it as a green floral chypre: an opening of galbanum, a bouquet of ylang-ylang, jasmine and rose, a spicy heart where carnation shows through, and a base of sandalwood, musk and patchouli. Its slogan, “The woman is an island, Fidji is her perfume,” has endured for decades.
A rectangular clear glass bottle, cut with a vertical rib and topped with a large black stopper, designed by Serge Mansau.
Since its launch, Fidji has come in a rectangular clear glass bottle, cut with a vertical rib down the middle and topped with a large black stopper. The house credits the design to the bottle sculptor Serge Mansau; Nigel Groom also credits him in The Perfume Handbook (1992).
The house tells the origin of this stopper as a legend: the stopper of an old Lancôme fragrance, Tropiques, is said to have fallen, and its upturned shape gave the idea for Fidji’s.
The eau de toilette is sold today in 50 and 100 ml sprays, with the same silhouette. On its website, the house still presents Fidji in a clear glass bottle, without further detail.