The Roudnitska Legacy

A Sense of Destiny & Feminist Empowerment

Edmond Roudnitska was an ardent feminist agitator who incited women to revolt and spent his life trying to give them the knowledge and experience that would enable them to overcome the subservient role to which they were consigned in the 19th and 20 Centuries.

Everything he wrote following L'INTIMITE was designated to develop awareness (in both men and women) of the world within; our inner space, our feelings about ourselves, our desires, ambitious, fears and anxieties. How perfume can help us deal with these aspects of our beings is its most important function. If a perfume is well made with a clear and distinct form, it can help us gain awareness and mental clarity, help us articulate our ambitions and goals, strengthen our desires - a prequesite to realizing them, bolster self-esteem, self-confidence, poise and dignity

"The choice of a perfume, can only rest on the competence acquired by education of olfactive taste, by intelligent curiosity and by a desire to understand the WHY and the HOW of perfume. Instead, the public was given inexactitudes and banalities. The proper role of publicity is to assist in the formation of connoisseurs, who are the only worthwhile propagandists for perfume." and it is up to the perfumers to enlighten, orient and direct the publicity agents."

     Kathryns Degraff