kebechet Report post Posted March 25, 2018 Our C2E2 scents this year are a tribute to Chicago’s history of vice, featuring the Everleigh sisters and their glamorous, notorious Levee brothel, and the response of the evangelists and social reformers who attempted to purge the town of its “exciting conditions”. ADA Turkish rose, gilded amber, apricot, and dark honey musk. MINNA We never robbed widows and we made no false representations. White patchouli, sage, and benzoin gleaming with tea leaf, green tobacco, cognac, polished rosewood, and bourbon vanilla. CALUMET 412 The Everleigh’s phone number, available 24/7 to clients and sympathetic reporters. For a good time, call. Softly-glowing gaslamps cast sinuous shadows over plush leather and brocade sofas, flicking its light between oaken shelves laden with books. A whiff of aftershave and the memory of perfume. THE GOLD ROOM The Everleigh Club was located in a sumptuous 50-room mansion in Chicago’s Red Light District. Every inch of this palace of sin was lavishly decorated, and none more than the Gold Room, which featured golden furnishings, golden draperies, gold spittoons, gold-gilded fish bowls, and a gold-leaf piano. Gleaming, glittering gold: amber and honeyed champagne, ginger root, yellow tobacco flower, and golden apple peel. THE OCTOPUS ON THE LAKE The grasping tentacles of vice: black musk, tobacco absolute, opium poppy accord, smoked khus, and oily black opoponax. THE LEVEE The most disreputable district in early 20th-century Chicago. Blackened patchouli, smoke, and sorrow painted by sweet sugar and thick honey. ++ BPTP: HAIR GLOSS DENS OF SIN Bourbon-soaked tobacco and oak paneling. THE SILVER PARLOR A flute of topaz-gold wine, a pop of champagne, a waterfall of slouching wisteria, and a cluster of pale white lilies. Perfume: $26Hair Gloss: $30 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
