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Friday, December 19, 2014

Suzanne Talbot & Les Parfum Suzanne Perichon

J. Suzanne Talbot was a milliner from France. Her shop was located at 14 rue Royale in Paris.


During the late Victorian era Talbot designed couture clothing and hats. Like other designers of the period, she introduced perfumes around 1924. She drew her inspiration on her own name, and called her first perfumes "J", "S" and "T". In 1932, Société Claire Palisseau et Juliette Levy was doing business as J. Suzanne Talbot.

Famous milliners Lilly Dache and Jeanne Lanvin were seamstresses for Talbot in the late 1890s and into the early 1900s.

The perfumes of J. Suzanne Talbot:

  • 1925 J
  • 1925 S
  • 1925 T

Fairchild's, 1928:
"Another couturier, J. Suzanne Talbot, launches her own perfumes and powders. She offers three new scents - S, J and T - in gold and silver boxes. Jasmine, magnolia and gardenia are the bases used."

J. Suzanne Talbot perfumes J, S, and T. in graduated sizes c1925.






Bonney, Therese. 1925. Therese Bonney photographs, 1925-1937.
Supplied Caption: France, ca. 1925. Perfume and powder in "S" scent by J. Suzanne Talbot. Marie Laurencin (1885-1956) artwork on wall. Boxes in gold and silver. Colorized by me.




Les Parfums Suzanne, was established by Suzanne Perichon at 5, Rue du 29 Juillet, Paris, France in about 1920.

The perfumes of Suzanne:

  • 1924 Le Secret de Suzanne (an oriental perfume)
  • 1938 Tout de Suite (a dry, spicy floral perfume)
  • 1940 Fragrance of Lightning
  • 1940 Chaste 
  • 1946 Permettez Moi
  • 1947 Bright Christmas
  • 1952 Beau Catcher (sold under the Vigny name as well) (a spicy bouquet perfume)
  • Tempestuous Perfume
The New Yorker, 1938:
"Suzanne: Secret of Suzanne, a dry sachet scent which has been treasured for years, in a new gold-and-tortoise-shell-colored column package."
Secret de Suzanne is the best known fragrance from Les Parfums Suzanne. 

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