Eight & Bob Albert Fouquet was the son of a Parisian aristocrat who concocted his own perfumes in an upper room of the family chateau. At social events he would astonish guests with samples of his exquisite perfumes. At one such party, in 1937 on the Côte d’Azur, he met a young John F. Kennedy and introduced him to his newest sample. JFK was captivated by the scent and Albert left him a sample with a note attached reading: “In this bottle you will find the dash of French glamour your American personality lacks.” Upon returning home JFK requested eight more samples “and if your production allows, another one for Bob.” While Albert didn’t fully understand the request, he was determined to fill the order in an elegant style befitting the scent he had created. He ordered his butler to source the finest glass perfume bottles in Paris and decorated each box with the pattern from JFK’s shirt on the night they met. Finally, for his own amusement, he labelled each bottle in reference to the American’s peculiar request: ‘Eight & Bob’. In the ensuing years ‘Eight & Bob’ became the preferred fragrance of style icons such as Cary Grant and James Stewart, introduced to the fragrance at decadent Hollywood soirees. While Albert died in an automobile accident in 1939 and ‘Eight & Bob’ fell out of production, his butler passed on the unique recipe to his family, allowing it to once again become one of the world’s great colognes.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 08:32:15 +0000
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