KADINE

In the Ottoman Empire, the Kadine means a woman in the harem of the Sultan, who was elevated to a wife, that is to say, a "favourite". During a visit to the Topkapi Palace, Jacques Guerlain crosses the portrait of a Kadine. He was struck by her incredible beauty but is also said that she was endowed with an exceptional olfactory gift, In homage to this history, he creates a perfume in her name in 1911.