MADERAS DE ORIENTE by MYRURGIA Antique Perfume Extract

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Ultra rare antique flask of Maderas de Oriente perfume by Myrurgia. The hand-painted Moorish style bottle was designed by Julien Viard. The bottle is accompanied with a cylinder shaped wooden case adorned with a blue and green yarn tassel. Maderas de Oriente (Woods of the Orient) includes a small bundle of sandalwood sticks inside each bottle. It comes with its original wood container. For those who like collectibles.


It won a Gold Medal in 1925 Paris Exhibition. 


Size: The size of the bottle is 11cm tall and the size of the case is 15cm tall. The 37ml/1,25 fl.oz bottle retains approximately half of its original contents. oncentration: Parfum / Perfume Extrait.


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A lovely woodsy Spanish fragrance touched by the mystery of the Orient. Created in 1929 by Myrurgia, Maderas de Oriente is a sensual fragrance yet elegant and refined that retains the magic and exoticism of oriental touch. 

  • Top notes: Italian Bergamot, Orange Blossom and Coriander
  • Middle notes: luxury floral chords of Bulgarian Rose, Carnation, Iris, Jasmine and Pink Pepper
  • Base notes: Tonka bean, Ylang, Musk and Vanilla.

​Myrurgia’s first great success, and one of its longest-lasting, Maderas de Oriente (Woods of the Orient, 1918), a sandalwood, cedar and sycomore blend, reflects the Orientalist fashion launched by the Ballets Russes and Paul Poiret’s fashions.

​Myrurgia’s story, as one of the three great perfume houses founded after WWI – with Parera and Dana – reflects this combination of attachment to folklore and push towards modernity. Because there’s a lot more to the Barcelona perfume house than Maja : from its birth in 1916 to the onset of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, it was linked to the Catalan and European avant-garde.

Myrurgia’s owner, Esteve Monegal (1888-1970), was in fact one of the rising stars of Art Nouveau in Catalunia during his brief artistic career : as a youth, he read Nietzsche and admired Wagner ; later on, he became a major player in the Barcelona art scene, as a sculptor, teacher and theoretician…

However, en 1917, at the age of 29, Esteve Monegal officially renounced his artistic career to take over the perfume house founded by his father, who owned a thriving hardware store. From then on, with the help of his fellow artist Eduard Jener Casellas, he called on the best catalan artists and photographers to design his bottles, labels and ads. Myrurgia’s visual identity closely followed the period’s aesthetic trends, from Art Nouveau to Ballets Russes Orientalism, and from Art Deco (Myrurgia had a stand at the 1925 Paris Arts Decoratifs exhibition that gave the movement its name) to Surrealism : René Magritte himself designed some of the ads. The Myrurgia factory itself, built in 1928-30 by Antoni Puig Gairalt, is considered to be one of the landmarks of Rationalist industrial architecture in Catalunia.