Roy Halston Frowick was prairie-bred Iowan with a penchant for hats. He studied at the Chicago Institute, and shortly after opened his first millinery salon in a Chicago hotel in 1953. His hats won favor from actresses like Gloria Swanson and Deborah Kerr. Five years later, he moved to New York to join Lily Dache. Halston’s defining design was a beige felt “pillbox” for Jacqueline Kennedy, copied widely for American women. Jackie “O” wore many Halston pillbox hats with dresses designed by Oleg Cassini. Known for his jet-set evening wear, Halston popularized turtlenecks and halter-neck dresses. His signature perfume, Halston, was sold in a bottle designed by Elsa Peretti, and joined other fragrances like Catalyst, Halston 1-12, Sheer, Unbound and Z.
Halston presents a new fragrant pair Halston Woman and Halston Man, which will be launched under license of the house of Elizabeth Arden. Carlos Benaim of IFF was chosen to interpret and improve compositions of two classics: Halston for Women from 1975 and Haston Z-14 for men. It is interesting that back in 1975 Carlos Benaim used to work as junior perfumer with Bernard Chant on creation of the first fragrance. Its update was made as a modern reverse of original ingredients with structure adapted to the new concept.
Benaim said himself: “I followed the basic idea, but added ingredients that were not available when the first scents were launched.”

Halston Woman is a fragrance for woman which incorporates Sicilian bergamot, marigold, black currant, rose, iris root, rose absolute, jasmine petals, along with patchouli, sandalwood and amber. It is available as 30, 50 and 100 ml EDP.
Halston Man is composed of citruses, Artemisia, passionfruit, lavender, mint, cardamom, patchouli, labdanum and musk. The perfume arrives as 75 and 125 ml EDT.
Flacons were created as platinum versions of the original editions. Designer is Elsa Peretti.

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