Piesse & Lubin was a luxury perfumery in London. Established in 1855, the company ceased operations in the 1950s.
12-917: Piesse is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: George William Septimus Piesse (1820 – 1882), English chemist and perfumer Alfred Piesse (1866–1939), Australian politician Arnold Piesse (1872–1935), Australian politician Bonnie Piesse (born 1983), Australian actress and musician Charles Piesse (1855–1914), Australian politician Edmund Piesse (1900–1952), Australian politician Frederick Henry Piesse (1853–1912), Australian politician Frederick William Piesse (1848–1902), Australian politician Harold Piesse (1884–1944), Australian politician Ken Piesse , Australian journalist Paul Piesse , New Zealand politician Winifred Piesse (born 1923), Australian politician See also [ edit ] Piesse Brook, Western Australia [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
24-399: A perfume house that created some of the most popular scents of its day. Piesse studied at University College London . Piesse's The Art of Perfumery is an important early book about the methodology behind extraction methods and blending in perfumery. It is considered Piesse's "opus magnum". In the book, Piesse introduces the idea that olfaction can be described in ways that correlate to
36-538: Is Piesse's popularization of the use of synthetic materials. According to an article titled "Making the Synthetic Epic" in the journal, The Senses and Society , Andrew Kettler recounted the story of how Piesse, in later editions of The Art of Perfumery, invented the character named Mercutio Frangipani. According to Piesse, Frangipani was a botanist who was on board one of Christopher Columbus' voyages to America, and even supposedly found land by smelling it. There
48-433: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles George William Septimus Piesse George William Septimus Piesse (30 May 1820 – 23 October 1882), known as Septimus Piesse , was an English chemist and perfumer . Piesse was a leading author and innovator of modern perfume ideas, inventing the concept of notes in perfumery that are still used universally today. He was the co-owner of Piesse and Lubin ,
60-472: The Mary Celestia , a ship wrecked in 1864 off Bermuda . The perfume was still inside the bottles, apparently uncontaminated by salt water. When researchers opened the bottles, they said that the fragrance still smelled fresh and floral. The fragrance was thought to be 'Bouquet Opoponax,' one of the company's popular products. The bottle contents were analyzed via a gas chromatograph and reproduced by
72-409: The surname Piesse . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Piesse&oldid=1013153650 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
84-610: The Synthetic Epic," Kettler wrote, "Piesse...became the premier perfumer on the London scent scene in the 1860s after the publishing of numerous works on the use of flowers for creating perfumes." Piesse and Lubin's laboratory existed at Number 2, New Bond Street in London. Piesse and Lubin created a number of popular perfumes in the late 19th century, including Hungary Water (1873), Kiss Me Quick (1873), Frangipanni (1880), and Vashti (1900). In 2011, anthropologist Philippe Rouja found several bottles of Piesse and Lubin's Bouquet Opoponax in
96-485: The company presented scents including 'Perfumes of Paradise', 'Flowers of Scotland' and 'Perfume of Arabia'. In 1920, the company was purchased by Cussons Sons and Company Ltd Alexander Tom Cussons , the new owner, sent his daughter Marjorie Cussons to work in the company. She learnt about the art of perfumery and prepared the company for its move to Manchester . The company closed in the 1950s. In 2011, two unopened Piesse & Lubin perfume bottles were discovered in
108-498: The musical notes on a diatonic scale. He is credited with creating an "odaphone," or a scale related to categorizing and ranking the notes by octave. The Art of Perfumery is also notable in that, in an 1862 edition, Piesse introduced ideas relating to synesthesia and smound . He suggested that sounds and scents are linked in the brain: "Scents, like sounds, appear to influence the olfactory nerve in certain definite degrees." One of The Art of Perfumery' s most enduring legacies
120-631: The sand near the shipwreck of the Mary Celestia , a Civil War-era boat that crashed into a reef off of Bermuda in 1864. Rouja brought the bottles to Bermuda Perfumery, a local perfume house established in 1928. The owner, Isabelle Ramsay-Brackstone, had the perfumes analyzed by Osmothèque , a scent archive in Versailles. Based on the analysis, Bermuda Perfumery was able to re-create a version of Bouquet Opoponax Piesse and Lubin The perfumery
132-657: Was a 17th-century French botanist named Charles Plumier, who did travel to study the plants in American, and who Frangipani may be based on. The invention of Frangipani was meant to correlate Piesse's perfume practice, particularly a scent called "Frangipanni," to the "exotic encounters in the Atlantic World." However, the story of Frangipani has since been reprinted in several books on perfume history as fact. Piesse and Wilhelm Lubin, "an elite Paris manufacturer of perfumes," co-founded Piesse and Lubin in 1855. In "Making
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#1732786966461144-518: Was co-owned by G. W. Septimus Piesse . Little is known about Piesse's partner, Lubin. Piesse & Lubin created many perfumes, including: The Bath & County Club Perfume 1860, Ambergris 1873, Hungary Water 1873, Kiss Me Quick 1873, Bouquet Opoponax 1875, The Flower of the Day 1875, White Rose 1875, Frangipanni 1880, Kisses 1880, Myrtle 1880, Frolic 1894, Musk-Deer 1900, Ribon de Bruges 1900, Vashti 1900, Opusaya 1901. In an 1862 International exhibition,
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