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Sunday, November 22, 2020

Nandita by Babani c1925

Nandita by Babani: launched in 1925.  The name Nandita is taken from Hindi and means "cheerful".



Nandita, with a haunting fragrance, is contained within a rich square flask of black, patterned with gold. A golden box lined with paprika scarlet...a crystal container, squarish with cryptic ebony and gold decorations ont front and back..remove the top and the most alluringly subtle of all odors greets your senses. Babani has christened it Nandita.

Fragrance Composition:



It was classified as an oriental fragrance for women. I have no other notes on this composition. I would need a sample to tell you what the rest of it smells like.
  • Top notes:
  • Middle notes: spices
  • Base notes: ambergris, musk, vanilla



The New Yorker, 1925:
"Blend Ligeia with Afghani, or Chypre with Sousouki, varying the proportions or adding drops of Ming, Yasmai and Nandita, to make the fragrance different and entirely your own. Babani perfumes are on sale at the Salons of Elizabeth Arden."

Harper's Bazaar, 1925:

"Nandita: a new Babani perfume, but just arrived from Paris. A fragrance exquisitely smart, contained in a black and gold bottle and packed in a gold box with red satin lining and quaint fastening of gold cord and button. $20."





Bottles:


Exceptional clear glass perfume bottle, with rich gilding and black enameled details. Stands 3" tall x 2 3/8" wide x 7/8" thick.








  
 





Fate of the Fragrance:


Discontinued, date unknown. Still being sold in 1934.

 


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