Baccarat Guerlain Dawamesk Crystal Bottle

“Dawamesk” - Bottle from 1945. This modernist bottle in pressed molded Baccarat crystal tinted midnight blue is dressed in gold lacquer. It represents a stylized “cornette collar” knot, with its faceted cabochon stopper. Bottle titled on 2 sides. Numbered under the top and stamped Baccarat. Georges Chevalier (1894-1987) designed the bottle and Jacques Guerlain (1874-1963) invented the perfume juice in 1942. ". At the Liberation, in 1945, Kriss disappeared but Guerlain decided to relaunch this perfume under another name, it would be "Dawamesk" In North Africa, Dawamesk is the name of a euphoric preparation, a kind of greenish jam made from leaves of chopped cannabis blended with vanilla, cinnamon, pistachios and musk. This "musk medicine", according to the Arabic translation, was secretly venerated by the Club des Haschischins in the middle of the 19th century, which included Charles Baudelaire, Eugène Delacroix, Alexandre Dumas and Théophile Gautier. Inspired by this clandestine pleasure, Jacques Guerlain baptized his perfume Dawamesk, a dark and confidential name echoing this troubled period full of secrets. Imagined as a powerful antidote to the ambient gloom, Dawamesk mysteriously deploys its precious tobacco swirls. A liberated perfume to be savored out of sight. In this period of restriction on raw materials, it was unthinkable to create a specific bottle. From 1945, Dawamesk then shared the famous bow tie bottle with Coque d'Or, another perfume from the House created in 1937. This one was marketed until 1962. Rare and collector's item.