Thursday, December 27, 2007







Toujours Moi, a perfume introduced by Corday in 1924, reportedly inspired the British composer Harry Revel to create a set of instrumentals known as Perfume Set to Music. Revel, after being captivated by a woman wearing Toujours Moi in a Paris hotel bar, visited the perfumery in France and created six compositions, each attempting to capture the complex and ethereal experience of a specific Corday fragrance.

Recorded in 1947, the music is available still today on the CD collection, Waves in the Ether, performances by podiatrist instrumentalist Samuel Hoffman. Hoffman played Theremin, an early electronic space-age instrument.

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