![]() ![]() GC is capable of reverse-engineering a chemical formula by reading the molecular composition of a scent and spitting out the names of the associated chemical compounds. Drom is a large international company, which had the equipment necessary to perform gas chromatography, abbreviated GC. She took her finds to New Jersey, where her friend and fellow perfumer Jean Claude Delville worked for Drom Fragrances. Ramsay-Brackstone obtained permission to temporarily keep the bottles as she pursued her recreation. Lina ZeldovichĪccording to Bermuda’s law all artifacts recovered from the sea become property of the government, joining the collection at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute. The original bottle of perfume from Piesse and Lubin. ![]() “It was a perfume that Queen Victoria would have worn.” Ramsay-Brackstone, who also forges her own scents, was inspired and wondered if she could recreate the fragrance 150 years later. “In the 1800s, London was a center of the perfume industry and Piesse and Lubin was the name of a prominent perfume house on Bond Street,” she says. ![]() Ramsay-Brackstone immediately knew they were a rare find. Rouja brought the bottles to Isabelle Ramsay-Brackstone, the owner of a local boutique perfume store called Lili Bermuda. Etched on the glass were the names “Piesse and Lubin London.” One still contained a small air bubble inside, which otherwise would have been forced out by seawater. Save for some mineral deposits that had formed on them, the bottles appeared to be intact. The items were packed together, leading the team to think they may have been gifts. But this isn’t the story of the wreck itself-this is a story about a whiff of lost perfume history hiding within.Īfter a week of examining the wreck, a team of divers and archaeologists found a number of artifacts, including shoes, wine, and two small bottles of perfume. In fact, over 300 vessels are buried around the island, each with its own history and artifacts. The Mary Celestia is far from alone: Bermuda’s treacherous underwater reefs sank many a ship. The bow belonged to the Civil War blockade runner Mary Celestia, which was en route to North Carolina’s Confederate forces when it sank in 1864. After an intense storm pummeled Bermuda in February 2011, the island’s custodian of historic wrecks Philippe Max Rouja went to do a coastal survey and spotted a partially exposed bow of a boat. ![]()
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