What Did Carolyn Bessette’s Perfume Smell Like?

Sam Miller2 months ago03 mins

by Brian Galindo, Shelby Heinrich, Lara Parker

Carolyn’s love of the fragrance – which has been described as soft, clean, simple, and like the “white T-shirt” of scents — has been well documented over the years, including in Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy by author Elizabeth Beller, and in her cousin-in-law and friend Carole Radziwill’s memoir, What Remains. Now, as much as I can find through researching Abdul Kareem, it was an inexpensive, small, Brooklyn-based perfume oil brand from the ’80s that was also popular in the ’90s and sold mainly through street vendors (which is where Carolyn would buy hers).

Reportedly, after the owner of the company died, Egyptian Musk (and other Abdul Kareem fragrances) slowly disappeared, with only backstock bottles popping up here and there over the years on eBay, usually going for way more than the $8–$12 price tag it sold for on the streets. Now, according to the Cut, the fragrance then reappeared through an eBay seller (that wants to remain anonymous), who has inherited the business and the original formulation, and has occasionally been dropping the oil over the years.

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