BEAUTY FASHION celebrated their 100th Anniversary and Symrise’s 220-Year Heritage in Fine Fragrance at the exclusive Cercle de I’Union Interalliee in Paris.
Industry leaders from L’Oreal, Estee Lauder, LVMH, Coty, Unilever, Puig, Interparfums, Chanel and Hermes, gathered together to celebrate the event sponsored by Symrise which has a 220 year heritage in fine fragrance having enabled the creation of such iconic scents as Jicky by Guerlain through the innovation of synthetic Vanillin as well as the exquisite perfumery bases from Fabrique DeLaire, Shalimar, and more recently Marc Jacobs, Carolina Herrera and Comme des Garcons.
George Ledes, President & CEO of BEAUTY FASHION whose family has traditionally held a beauty industry dinner at Le Cercle de L’Union Interalliee for more than thirty years, proposed a toast to Achim Daub, President, Scent & Care, of Symrise thanking him and congratulating his company’s own milestone achievements with a 100-year-old bottle of Domain Legrand Armagnac from 1917.
Over two hundred guests attended, including Vogue Publisher Susan Plagemann and many other New Yorkers in Paris for the Women’s Ready-to-Wear shows including Vicomtesse Adda de Vaulchier, legendary fragrance consultant Ann Gottlieb, BEAUTY FASHION Editor-in-Chief Christine Schott Ledes, L’Oreal’s Karine Lebret, Coty’s Sumit Bhasin, LVMH’s Ariane Premel Hermes’ Agnes de Villers, L’Oreal/Armani’s Roberta Girodot, Interparfums’ Philippe Benacin and Pierre Dessaules, Unilever’s Ann Cabotin, Cosmetique Magazine’s Sabine de Seze,, Korres’ Georges Bakas, Estee Lauder’s Lana Glazman, Ferragamo’s Giulio Gavotti, Puig’s Elizabeth Vidal, L’Oreal/Ralph Lauren’s Eleanore Blum, Poshly’s Doreen Bloch, and Symrise’s Isabelle Vacheret and Doreen Bucher.
Jazz Singer Cole Rumbough, whose great-grandmother, Marjorie Merriweather Post, built President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach residence and club, Mar-a-Lago, kicked off the evening with two classics from the Great American Songbook, As Time Goes By and Sinatra’s The Best is Yet to Come!
Pictured:
Redken’s Nathalie Banker, George Ledes
Cole Rumbaugh & Trio