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Schiaparelli

Shocking

1937OrientalParfumFrance

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Editorial notes

  1. 01

    An animalic honeyed white-floral oriental Schiaparelli briefed for her Surrealist Paris, sweet and deliberately transgressive in the spirit of her Dalí collaborations.

  2. 02

    Named after the shocking-pink colour Schiaparelli had introduced into haute couture, a hue she branded as her own and built her visual identity around.

  3. 03

    Presented in a female-torso flacon based on Mae West's measurements (a Schiaparelli client), draped with a glass tape measure and a floral garland by Leonor Fini.

  4. 04

    Composed by Jean Carles in 1937. The Mae West torso directly inspired Jean Paul Gaultier's 1993 Classique bottle six decades later.

Dossier

Edition · 000

Status · Active. Heritage reissue.

An animalic honeyed white floral oriental.

Composed by
Jean Carles
Bottle by
Leonor Fini
Founder
Elsa Schiaparelli
Country
France

The pyramid

Top
tarragonaldehydesbergamotrose
Heart
honeytuberosenarcissusjasmineclove
Base
leatherpatchoulimuskcivetvetiverbenzoin

The brief

Schiaparelli briefed Jean Carles for an unapologetically carnal, surrealist composition to match her partnership with Salvador Dalí — sweet, animalic, deliberately transgressive.

NameNamed after Schiaparelli's signature 'Shocking Pink', the bold colour she introduced into Parisian couture in the 1930s.

The flacon

Female-torso flacon based on Mae West's measurements (Schiaparelli's client), draped with a glass tape measure and floral neck garland — a Surrealist icon.

Footnotes

  • The Shocking torso flacon directly inspired Jean Paul Gaultier's 1993 Classique bottle six decades later.

The Curator's Note

The bottle is the wearer, lightly draped in glass.

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