Tabu by Dana (1932)
“A velvet boudoir at midnight” After leaving the corporate world to realign and recentre, I used my time to dive deeper into various interests that had hitherto been neglected. Since I had always been a perfume enthusiast, exploring that world further happened to be on my list of many, many things I planned to eventually get around to if work permitted. During my online investigations, it was a post I came across on Bois de Jasmin that gave new life and renewed zeal to my interest in perfumery, this time focused on the great classics. As a lifelong history buff who has always yearned to travel through time, I was in hot pursuit of the perfumes of the past. So, happening upon Victoria ’s countdown of fragrances that influenced perfume history was like striking gold. Alongside the usual suspects, however, were a few fragrances I hadn’t encountered before. One, mentioned in passing, from a fragrance house I’d never heard of, caught my attention. This was Tabu by Dana .