By the onset of WWI, Lalique was designing and making bottles and accessories for the most fashionable perfumers of Paris.

Explore the history of perfume, including scientific and technological evolutions from antiquity to the eighteenthcentury.

The historic allure of French perfume was expressed through elaborate bottle design and represented in poetry, literature, fine art, and advertising.

Explore the beauty secrets behind the daily and often public practice of the ritual known as la toilette.

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Lecturer Mikhail Ovchinnikov discusses the innovations and inspirations of Fabergé.

Lecturer Caroline de Guitaut explores the long history between the British royal family and the Russian imperial family and their shared passion for Fabergé.

Dr. Sylvain Cordier lectures about the day-to-day life of the Bonaparte family and the vast crew and organization required to conceive and produce the spectacle of power and splendor.