My story begins back in 1953 when my twin sister and I were starting college at the University of Rochester and one of her roomate's mother brought each of us a box of Blue Carnation soap. I used it and was hooked on the scent. Later I found that I could buy a large bottle of blue colored Eeu de Toillette for $9.00 at many pharmacies and started splashing that on daily. Blue Carnation became my signature scent and years later at a visit from my daughter, when we hugged she said, “Oh Mother, you smell like YOU!!
Then the tragedy when Roger and Gallet in 1956 stopped making Blue Carnation, but still had Carnation which was a consolation. I was able to find the soap in small drug stores in the Carribean Islands on vacation and would drag as much as I could carry back to Philadelphia. Later in my life, while training to be a doctor, several patients made gifts of very popular perfumes; Chanel #5, White Shoulders – and I found that all of them gave me a sick headache; needed my Blue Carnation.
Ebay was a source of very expensive cologne or perfume when intermittently people found bottles or dry perfume in their family estates as elders died. So I bid and won some lost some until I had a conversation with a perfumer at Roger et Gallet while visiting Paris. She shared a hint at what was needed to change carnation to blue and I did it with a bit of success. Since then I have perfected the present concoction – which people have been loving. And – I have my own limitless supply!
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