The Design Story

The scent of nothing in nature

In 1921, a Paris perfumer did something no one had dared: he built a fragrance around aldehydes — synthetic molecules that smelled of nothing that grew. Sparkling, abstract, impossibly clean, they lifted the flowers beneath them into something the world had never smelled before.

This design frames that revolution in a single flacon — the faceted Art Deco bottle marked Aldehyde C-12 · 1921 — printed like a plate lifted from a modernist perfumer’s dossier.

• Aldehyde C-12
• The Crystal Flacon
• Art Deco
• Paris · 1921

The Print

Front & back

Plate I · Front chest — DLF circular emblem

Plate II · Full back — The Aldehyde Revolution, 1921

The chest wears the De La Forme circular emblem in red; the back carries the full archive plate — the crystal flacon, the Art Deco frame, and the year 1921 — printed to sit quietly against the pigment-dyed ground.

Fabric & Fit

Specifications

Care

Keeping the wash

Machine wash cold, inside out, with like colours. Tumble dry low or hang to dry. Do not iron directly over the print. Because the fabric is pigment dyed, a gentle, gradual fade is part of the design — it will keep looking better the more you wear it.