White Linen

Editorial notes

1. 01

   A crisp aldehydic white floral meant to capture the smell of starched white cotton against warm skin, the antithesis of the era's heavy orientals.

2. 02

   Sophia Grojsman's first major Estée Lauder commission and the launchpad for her career. The aldehyde-rose-iris-musk structure recurs in her later Trésor and Eternity.

3. 03

   Named to evoke fresh-pressed bed linen drying in summer sunlight: a quietly American luxury rather than a Parisian opulence.

4. 04

   Composed by Sophia Grojsman in 1978 around aldehydes and lemon over a tuberose-iris-lily heart with a sandalwood-amber-moss base.