New York '55 15ml

New York '55 was made with vintage fans in mind, to match the look with the fragrance. It seemed to us that if you were going to go to the trouble of dressing like you're in New York in 1955, you might like to wear a fragrance that placed you back in the right decade.

The perfume that inspired us was vintage Chantilly, and although this doesn't smell like the 1948 Houbigant classic, its exuberance, flounciness, sweetness and full, generous fragrance seemed to capture something that was lost in the simpler, underdressed 60s and 70s.

Its structured undergarments are musks which were available at the time; its heart is rose, raspberry and violet, and its top notes are fresh citrus juices and a dollop of creamed candy floss.

We've now made nine fragrances in our vintage series: four for Living Literature at the University of London, one for London Transport Museum, one for Peroni Nastro Azurro beer and three just because we can. They are all made with materials available at the time we've dated them, so they could have been made just like this. 

This is the 15ml bottle.

• Perfume dialect: floral gourmand.
• Top notes: candy floss
• Heart notes: raspberry, rose, violet
• Base notes: vanilla, musk

Ingredients: Alcohol, Parfum, Citronellol, Geraniol, Linalool, Citral, Limonene.  

New York '55 is suitable for vegans.

“Today I tried my sample of New York ‘55. It’s simply delicious and reminded me so much of my favourite ever ice-cream sundae at Fortnum & Masons. It features - candy floss, rose petals, rose and violet ice cream and crystallised rose and violet petals! I can’t stop sniffing myself.” - Mikki Francis-Lawton