Oeillet du Japon by Babani c1920

Oeillet du Japon by Babani: launched in 1920.

Oeillet du Japon, Parfum du Japon, is fresh and spicy as sweet pinks in quaint flower beds, and is for moods that are prim, distant, tantalizing. A lovely rich perfume with a soft, lingering fragrance of carnation. So exquisitely true to nature that one might smell the flower and perfume simultaneously without detecting the difference. The perfume blended to express tailored smartness. 

Mix Ligeia with Oeillet du Japon and you will have a perfume combining all the qualities of a romantic, luxurious nature with all the sophistication of Japan. 

Fragrance Composition:

So what does it smell like? It is classified as a sweet and spicy soliflore carnation fragrance for women. But I have no actual published notes on this composition. I would need a sample to tell you what it truly smells like.

Newspaper advertisements of the era described it as "fresh and spicy as sweet pinks in quaint flower beds, and is for moods that are prim, distant and tantalizing."

• Top notes: clove, cassia, jonquil, neroli, rose geranium, almond, petitgrain
• Middle notes: orange blossom, jasmine, tuberose, rose, carnation, orris
• Base notes: musk, vanilla, storax, benzoin, patchouli, sandalwood, ambrette, covet

Bottle:

 No. 1003. Our twelve extracts in an elegant gold box.

Fate of the Fragrance:

Discontinued, date unknown.