Origins & milestones

Green 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. Ancient useGalbanum resin

   Biblical and Mediterranean incense; not yet a “green note”.

2. 1947Vent Vert

   Cellier for Balmain: galbanum as fashion modernism.

3. 1970Chanel No. 19

   Henri Robert’s green iris; galbanum in a Chanel silhouette.

4. 1972Aliage

   Estée Lauder “sport fragrance”; green as movement.

5. 1978Silences

   Jacomo’s green-floral; a cult bitter bouquet.

6. 1978Private Collection

   Lauder / IFF greens as private-label chic.

7. 1980sGreen retreat

   Orientals and white florals shout louder.

8. 1990sLeaf in sheers

   Violet leaf inside transparent florals.

9. 2000sTomato leaf niche

   Hermès and others treat the garden as cuisine.

10. 2010sGalbanum revival

    Indie greens against sweet gourmands.

The eras

• Resin and leaf — Galbanum as incense and pharmacy.
• Fashion green — Vent Vert to No. 19 and Lauder sports.
• Quiet leaf — Greens survive as facets, not titles.
• Garden niche — Tomato, fig leaf, crushed stem.
• Bitter revival — Anti-sugar briefs name galbanum again.

Milestones

• Vent Vert, 1947 — Cellier makes snap-stem a style, not a defect.
• Chanel No. 19, 1970 — Green enters the Chanel canon beside aldehydes.
• Tomato-leaf niche — Twenty-first-century garden realism.

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

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