Origins & milestones

Fruity did not arrive as one bottle. The timeline below keeps Grasse, Guerlain, Chanel, Nahéma and IFRA as proper names, not metaphors.

Read the years as a map of trade and reformulation, not as a ranking of beauty.

Timeline

1. 1919Mitsouko

   Peach lactone inside a mossy chypre — fruit as velvet, not candy.

2. 1944Femme

   Rochas / Roudnitska: plum-peach over cumin and oakmoss.

3. 1969Calandre fruit

   Roudnitska’s school keeps fruit abstract.

4. 1990sBath fruit

   Escada seasonal and body-mist mango-berry flood Europe and the US.

5. 1994CK One facets

   Tea-citrus-fruit as shared bottle, not a fruit bomb.

6. 2000sCassis-rose

   Blackcurrant bud in niche roses (Portrait of a Lady’s top).

7. 2012La Vie Est Belle

   Praline-iris-fruit; fruit as gourmand on-ramp.

8. 2010sApple-clean

   Iso E and apple for “fresh fruity floral” offices.

9. 2010sNiche osmanthus

   Apricot-leather fruit as an adult alternative to peach soda.

10. IFRA yearsMoss and juice

    Some fruity-floral allergens and moss cuts change the peach-chypre restages.

The eras

• Abstract fruit — Lactones inside chypres; fruit is a texture.
• Occasional peach — Still a facet in extras, not a category aisle.
• Seasonal candy — Escada and mists teach “fruity” as a family name.
• Fruit-gourmand — Apple, pear and praline in designer feminines.
• Split — Photoreal juice versus osmanthus-leather adults.

Milestones

• Mitsouko, 1919 — Proved peach could be tragic and mossy, not juvenile.
• Femme, 1944 — Roudnitska’s ripe fruit over animalic chypre.
• 1990s seasonals — Industrialized fruit as fashion calendar.

Fruity keeps moving; the other six chapters say what one date cannot.

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