Marie-Antoinette, first cosméto addict

Marie Antoinette 150x150 Marie Antoinette, first cosméto addictAlthough she spent of incredible fortunes in the articles of perfumery (more than 200.000 books for the year 1778), the Queen appreciated especially simple water like the water of orange flower, known as of the King, creates by the predecessor of Fargeon, Vigier, in the honor of Louis XV. She had tasted the benefits of the oil of lavender, very in vogue for more than 20 years and the lemon oil. She made some put some drops in her bath and cassolettes to purify her apartments. She chose vinegars aromatized with the orange flower or the lavender.

 

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Water of pigeon extracted the Royal Perfumer (1761)

But Fargeon made especially spirituous water fleshlight video girls him of pink, violet, jasmine, jonquil, fleshlight video girls tuberose obtained by distillation. It intensified them with musk, amber or opopanax. She also liked the fleshlight video girls of odors, then very with the mode and made fleshlight video girls much present at its close relations. To clean its skin, it used the cosmetic water of pigeon (photo cf), to invigorate it the water of the charms made with the tears of vine which runs in May. The water of angel bleached it by purifying the dye.

It coated its hands of the royal paste which maintained softness and preserved gerçures of it.

She adored the pomades with the pink, vanilla, the frangipane, the tuberose, the eyelet, the jasmine, the thousand-flowers. The pomade with the flower jasmine to make by Jean-Louis Fargeon was intended for an application to the root of the hair. It would have the virtue to prevent them falling and even from making them push. For the bath, it used cakes of soap with grasses, amber, bergamot or with pot-rotted, and to maintain the glare of its teeth, it ordered powders and opiates.

On the other hand, it was provided in red at Miss Martin.

Sources:

Elisabeth de Feydeau, Jean-Louis Fargeon, Perfumer of Marie-Antoinette, Paris, Perrin, 2004

Chantal Thomas, Good-byes with the Queen, Paris, Threshold, 2002 (novel)

 

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5 Comments

  1. I do not weary myself lira this kind of article!! still thank you to share your knowledge with us!! I read a biography of Marie Antoinette (stephan zweig) but alas not only a line on his secrecies of beauty damage, I have had an hard time has to finish it besides!

    On the other hand it is necessary at all costs that I read the book of Frageon, it for the enthralling air!

    Good day!

  2. It is with pleasure that I do it. Indeed, the book on Fargeon is brilliant. fleshlight video girls the writing is really pleasant. With the re-entry, I will fleshlight video girls to make a small presentation of the art of the perfumer the work of Jean-Louis Fargeon.

  3. Elisabeth of Austria also had a passion for the line and the cosmetics
    thank you for this article

  4. Yes it is true, it would be necessary that I devote an article to it. However as regards its line, it was straightforwardly an obsession.

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