The rise of the house of Guerlain parallels the growth of the Second French Empire, but whereas Second Empire collapsed after after France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871), the house continued to thrive, in many ways examplifying the greatness of French perfumery. If you like Guerlain, then you might find this London Times article very interesting.
August 06, 2005
Thanks for this link, Victoria! Timesonline seems to have a nice collection of perfume-related articles in their database. I think I'll subscribe to their archive service, reading this one made me curious...
Posted by: Marcello | August 06, 2005 at 12:12
Marcello, you are welcome! I was thinking of suggesting these archives to you, because they indeed feature some nice articles. Needless to say, I always welcome more material on the topic of perfume!
Posted by: Victoria | August 06, 2005 at 12:28
Their online archives go back to 1985, and I'm not sure there are alternative ways to dig up older articles from the London Times. Hopefully they will extend their online collection in the near future.
Posted by: Marcello | August 06, 2005 at 15:01
Hmmm... a sneaky way to get into newspaper archives... go to google, and c/p the most distinctive phrase from the article. Usually newspaper archives have at least one or two sentences from the fully article. Then hit "cached" when you see the google result and it may come up.
Posted by: Anya | August 06, 2005 at 19:35
Anya, that is such a clever way to get into the archives. Thank you, I will definitely try to do that.
Posted by: Victoria | August 06, 2005 at 21:31