When the US arrived on the worlds political stage in 1918, Europe stared with eyes wide open: freshly arrived in France to find their husbands, American women proudly showed the old, astounded continent that cigarettes were no longer the privilege of men, & that the difference between smoking room & boudoir had been erased? Negligently to place those long ivory & mother-of-pearl cigarette-holders to their lips & swathing their femininity in a typically masculine veil, became the height of Parisian elegance. To mark the dawn of female liberation, in 1919 CARON dared to dedicate the deliberately provocative Tabac Blond to these beautiful androgynes. Mild & powerful, coppery overtones combined with a floral heart note. True to type. Oriental leather.