Dashing fragrance notes

  • Head

    • osmanthus

  • Heart

    • rose, iris, lily, jasmine, ylang ylang

  • Base

    • amber, vanilla, sandalwood, musk

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The eight scents of fashion designer, Lilly Dache, are little known today. Almost all stem from the year 1941.

Dache lived from 1893 to 1990. She was French-born, but based herself in the USA at 76 East 56th Street New York. She married the perfumer Jean Desprez (a Coty executive) in 1931. Her signature design was in the area of fashionable women's hats.

Her Dashing is a heady, rich chypre, with notes of lily, muguet and tuberose dominating. There is rose and jasmine here in the heart as well. The base is made up of civet and castoreum, all combining to make this one of the richest and most floral of chypres. The sharpness of the muguet and the warmth of the animal notes balance each other beautifully. The dry down is a sharp green rose, similar to that in Guerlain's Nahema.

A real masterpiece of perfumery. With a husband in the employ of Coty, how could it not be. Bottles of Dashing show up occasionally on Ebay and are well worth the purchase.
18th March 2015
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