Houbigant Essence Rare Eau de Parfum 100 ml is a floral perfume for women. Created by Master Perfumer Jean Claude Ellena, this fragrance is a soft floral that dazzles with the beauty of its raw materials. It is a timeless perfume, preserving the classic French style, but lighter, more readable, more subtle, and that gives pride, as in the past, to the materials; the flowers, the woods, more than the concept. Essence Rare Eau de Parfum 100 ml is a soft floral that dazzles with the beauty of its raw materials. In 1973, as a young perfumer newly arrived in New York, my first assignment was to create a fragrance for Maison Houbigant with the help of an American colleague. The Maison wanted a classic à la française perfume, whose name would be revealed later. [...] In realizing my dreams, I had to demonstrate the years of craftsmanship I had acquired. I would do so by composing Essence Rare. Years later, I met the Perris family during a conference on Houbigant, the great perfumer of the 19th and 20th centuries whose creations Guy de Maupassant praised for their quality, well before those of Rimmel or Pivert, saying of himself that he had an exceptional nose capable of detecting the passage of a fox in a forest. It was that very evening that I saw on the presentation screen the iconic image of a classic perfume that had not aged: Essence Rare. I told the Perris family that I was behind this perfume. Here it is rewritten, not as it was — it was taken off the market — but as I would like it to be. The idea of being able to evolve the formula of a perfume is another dream come true. I know the public doesn’t like to change the formula of a perfume, but personally, as a writer of scents, I liked this possibility. Like a writer who retouches his own works. One does not think, nor feel, the same way for a lifetime. My experiences have built me, my sensitivity has evolved. The perfume I propose to you today is a rewriting, preserving the classic French style, but lighter, more readable, more subtle, and privileging, as in the past, the materials; the flowers, the woods, more than the concept. I liked its few steps into the past. Jean-Claude Ellena — September 2020. The Collection Privée is a collection of precious essences, blended only with uncontaminated, pure, and authentic ingredients in extreme concentrations to guarantee superior, powerful, and highly balanced fragrances. While decidedly modern in the creation of its juices, the Collection Privée honors the history of Houbigant, giving new life to the bottles and names that made the maison's history.