Lightyears Collection
Un Air Embaumé
(c.1912)
Rigaud

Click on image to enlarge Un Air Embaumé perfume by Rigaud.

Un Air Embaumé was Rigaud's great success and sold for many years. The fragrance was a flowery, amber, woody perfume.

Marcel Duchamp, in collaboration with photographer Man Ray, created their own "brand" of perfume from a classic Un Air Embaumé bottle (not the more modern one shown here.) The product was called Belle Haleine and included several insider ironies in the presentation.

Click on image to enlarge Detail of the label on the bottom of Un Air Embaumé perfume bottle.

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• Adao Sedenil, 04/26/2007.
  The first design for "Un Air Embaumé" is attributed to Julien
  Viard. Cordially, Adao Sedenil.