New

Set Pour Un Homme Gitana – A treasure trove of heritage

Name: Set Pour Un Homme Gitana – A treasure trove of heritage
Brand: PARFUMS CARON
Price: 1800.0 EUR
Availability: InStock

Eau de Toilette

Les Charismatiques

Les Aromatiques

Description

The coffret intended to house the 500 ml bottle constitutes an exceptional piece, inscribed in the continuity of the dialogue established with Gitana 18 . With dimensions of 30 × 30 cm and a height of 10 cm, it combines a PEFC-certified beechwood core with a twill-weave carbon outer layer.

For this edition, 24 kilograms of traceable carbon, sourced from manufacturing scraps of Gitana 18 , were collected and transformed by BYKARBON. Selected during the construction of the trimaran, the fiber is re-laminated, cured, crafted, then assembled according to a fifteen-step protocol.

On the top, laser engraving traces a topographic relief inspired by nautical cartography. Between the lines, dates and landmarks appear: 1876, the birth of the first Gitana; 1904, the founding of Maison Caron; 1934, the creation of Pour Un Homme; 28, the number of boats in the saga; and 18, the trimaran number. These milestones trace the shared history of Gitana and Caron.

Inside, the bottle rests within a support made of AlgiFoam®, a bio-based material developed by IMT Mines Alès and composed of extracts of brown algae harvested in Brittany. Rendered in two shades, Archipel des Glénan and Sable de Maërl, it echoes the Brittany coastlines. Hand-shaped and protected by a bio-based varnish, it dissolves upon contact with water and returns to its original state.

Two loops in natural cork allow this support to be removed. Once detached, they reveal their secondary function. Finished with end pieces in reclaimed carbon from Gitana 18 , they become key rings. “Each detail is inscribed within a logic of transformation and second life.”

Since 1876, Gitana has pushed back the limits of navigation. Since 1934, Pour Un Homme de Caron has defied time. Two trajectories guided by the same founding audacity. Learn more.

Olfactory profile

Top notes: Lavender, Lavandin

Heart notes: Rose

Base notes: Vanilla, Amber notes, Musk

Ingredients

Around LAVENDER : French Lavander Essence | French Lavandin Essence | French Lavender Absolute | French Lavandin Absolute | Turkish Rose Essence Around VANILLA : Vanilla | Musk | Opoponax Essence | Styrax Resinoid Our ingredients lists are regularly updated. Before using a CARON product we invite you to carefully read the ingredients list printed on the packaging to be sure that this product is suitable for your personal use. INGREDIENTS (COCTAB): ALCOHOL DENAT., AQUA/WATER, PARFUM/FRAGRANCE, LAVANDULA OIL/EXTRACT, LINALOOL, LINALYL ACETATE, ETHYLHEXYL SALICYLATE, DIETHYLAMINO HYDROXYBENZOYL HEXYL BENZOATE, COUMARIN, CAMPHOR, BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE, SCLAREOL, TERPINEOL, PINENE, LIMONENE, GERANIOL, GERANYL ACETATE, TERPINOLENE, ALCOHOL, TRIS (TETRAMETHYLHYDROXYPIPERIDINOL) CITRATE, CARVONE, CINNAMYL ALCOHOL, ALPHA-TERPINENE, CI 42090/BLUE 1, CI 19140/YELLOW 5. 70% w/w.

Free delivery and samples*, personalised consultation.

Set Pour Un Homme Gitana – A treasure trove of heritage

Eau de Toilette

On the occasion of Gitana’s 150th anniversary, a family lineage of racing yachts initiated in 1876, Olivia de Rothschild, Artistic Director of Caron, chose to celebrate a saga unlike any other, driven by values with which she deeply identifies: A determination and a drive to go beyond, shaped by deliberate sidesteps and innovation placed in the service of progress. This spirit finds a particular resonance in Caron’s history, and more specifically in Pour Un Homme.

Set Pour Un Homme Gitana – A treasure trove of heritage

A foundational tension

In 1876, on Lake Geneva, Julie de Rothschild inaugurated a racing yacht she named La Gitana. At a time when sailing remained largely a male dominated field, she chose speed, rigor, and competition. Her gesture asserted both audacity and intellectual independence, shifting established boundaries. From the outset, driven by the imperative to go beyond limits, this momentum carried forward across generations. Each new vessel reexamines the previous one, innovating further, refining its line, recalibrating its course.

In 1934, Ernest Daltroff, perfumer and founder of the House, composed Pour Un Homme, one of the very first men’s fragrances, in an olfactory landscape then feminine. In this creation, born from a radical gesture that at odds with the conventions of its time, he united the vivid freshness of lavender with the enveloping warmth of vanilla, a note then largely associated with the feminine olfactory imagination. This encounter established the fragrance’s singularity, giving it its inherent tension and its disruptive force.

The dialogue between Gitana 18 and Pour Un Homme offers a particularly striking expression of this. A new-generation transoceanic trimaran, Gitana 18 is designed to transcend its own weight and take flight offshore. Between sea and air, between the vessel’s mass and its lift, its unfolds at sea, sustained by constant tension.

The body confronting the machine

To embody this tension, Olivia de Rothschild chose Bastien Dausse, a dancer and acrobat whose work develops through interaction with apparatuses designed to challenge the perception of gravity. In his practice, movement emerges from a close dialogue between the softness of gesture and the tension of the machine, between an impression of weightlessness and extreme technical precision. Suspended from the sails of this trimaran engineered to take flight offshore, his body translates this interplay of tensions into motion, extending its impulse and inheriting its rigor. Through him, the discipline of movement responds to the precision of the machine, in a relationship of control reminiscent of the dialogue with the trimaran, a conquered lightness reveals itself, born of mastery carried to its highest level.

At the core of these resonances lies a shared determination: to move beyond established lines, to make innovation a oforce for progress, and ultimately to open a space of liberation.o