Perfume set to Music
You Couldn't Make it Up...
Perfume set to Music has to be the most bizarre scent spin off there ever was.
Light orchestral numbers with oohs and ahhs of choirs, the doorbell chime of vibraphones, swooping harps and the sci fi warble of theremin.
It’s truly bizarre, an aural journey from paradise island to Star Trek - a cheeese fest of 50’s kitsch.
Which is fine - as far as it goes, but what’s it got to do with perfume?
On the back of the record, the sleeve notes tell of how a composer had a chance meeting with a Frenchwoman in the bar of the Hotel George V in Paris.
It turns out she was wearing Toujours Moi by Corday, which—being a music man—Mister Revel soon turned into a melody. Inspired by the idea of ‘perfume as music’, the composer approached Corday - who suggested he go to Grasse to find out more.
So, in the south of France and later back in Paris, he penned six pieces that he sold to RCA, who released them on 7” vinyl as an EP.
(Glamorous Parisiennes in five star hotels, junkets on the Côte d’Azur, it’s a hard job but somebody’s got to do it…)
Anyway.
Despite the novelty value (or perhaps because of it) the tunes are not that bad.
Try and spot the scent from the sounds :