Allumettes
F.R. Arnold & Co
- Release year
- 1926
- Active
- Yes
- Description
- A late-period F. R. Arnold & Co. fragrance whose French name means “matches,” suggesting a more modern, witty, and possibly smoky concept for the mid-1920s. Without surviving note details, it can best be understood as a stylish historical novelty perfume: dry, powdery, perhaps faintly woody or smoky, and more fashionably abstract than the earlier Victorian florals. It feels like a small flash of flapper-era cleverness from a house nearing the end of its perfume activity.