Eight & Bob
Eight & Bob was originally created by Albert Fouquet, a French aristocrat, in an upstairs room of his chateau with the assistance his butler Philippe. Albert created the fragrance for his own personal use, but was known to occasionally gift it to friends among the French high society.
One night in the summer of 1937 Albert met a precocious young American called John F. Kennedy, who at the time was touring Europe in a convertible sports car. Albert was very taken with John and so decided to gift him a bottle of his special fragrance with the note “In this jar, you will find the dash of French glamour that your American personality lacks."
After John had returned to America he wrote a letter to Albert thanking him for the perfume and requesting eight more bottles “and if production allows, another one for Bob”. Albert complied with Johns request, and after he'd found some beautiful bottles in a Parisian pharmacy he labelled them "Eight & Bob".
Albert did not hear anything for a few months, until suddenly he was inundated with requests for the fragrance from some of the biggest Hollywood stars, including Cary Grant and James Stewart, who had heard about it from John's father, Joseph. Unfortunately, very soon afterwards Albert was killed in a car crash and Philippe was forced to cease production of the fragrance because of the onset of WWII. Philippe sent one final shipment of the fragrance to America. In order to avoid it being detected, he hid the bottles inside books that he carefully hand cut.
Today, Eight and Bob has been resurrected from Philippe's handwritten notes by his decedents. In honour of the journey the last shipment took to the United States, each bottle is presented inside a cut out book.
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