Eight & Bob | Discovery Set

Discover and test out the entire Eight & Bob Fragrance Collection.

Our hand costumed made samples are bottled in a 2ml spray atomizer vial and packaged in a black organza bag.

Fragrances included in this Discovery Set :

Cap D'antibes - A fragrance inspired in the French Riviera summer days. This fragrance captures the essence of the exclusive Côte D’Azur. Unforgettable golden sunsets, beautiful landscapes, and exclusive celebrations at charming parties.

Champs de Provence - Fresh, green and citrusy, this fragrance captures the beauty of the Provence. The Champs de Provence fragrance will draw you to the splendid colors of Provence and the freshness of its exuberant aromas.

Memories de Mustique - A tribute to those who have experienced the magic of this unique island. The perfect combination of different notes of petitgrain, neroli, jasmine, and precious woods.

Nuit de Megeve - A perfume that pays tribute to the magical nights of Megève. The smell of the mountain’s air and the wood. The spirit of the magical night in Megève all bottled in a splendid perfume with luxury sizes.

Original - The most exclusive perfume created by Albert Fouquet. A classic. Albert Fouquet's masterpiece. A timeless, elegant perfume that combines notes of woody freshness and pink pepper. All in a new perfume bottle for the most distinguished men and woman.

Albert Fouquet was born to a Parisian aristocrat, in the early nineteen-hundreds. From the top floor of his illustrious chateau, Fouquet grew into a deft perfumier and crafted scents with the assistance of the family butler. His exquisite fragrances were like Fpuquet’s calling card at exclusive gatherings in high society, but he staunchly refused to monetize his much sought-after creations. 

Then on a balmy summer’s evening in 1937 on the Côte d'Azur, Albert met a fresh faced American student touring France in a convertible. That young man was JFK, and he was taken with Albert’s mesmerizing cologne. John enticed Fouquet to leave him a sample of that fragrance at his hotel the morning after, accompanied with a handwritten note:

 "In this bottle, you will find the dash of French glamour that your American personality lacks."

Fouquet later received a letter from John, since  returned to America, thanking him for his gift and singing his new perfume’s praised.  He implored Fouquet to send him eight more samples, along with “one for Bob.” Fouquet complied, enclosing the scent in glass Parisian pharmacy bottled embellished with a pattern he’d noticed on JFK’s shirt. The packaged was labeled “Eight and Bob.”

 Not long after, Albert Fouquet was met with a flurry of requests in the post from Hollywood directors, producers, and actors, including Cary Grant and James Stewart. 

Tragedy struck In the spring of 1939, when Albert died in an automobile accident near Biarritz, France. Some months later, Philippe, the butler who’d helped him all long and maintained filling out all perfume orders, was forced to leave his post with the Fouquet family at the outset of World War Two. Philippe carefully hid the bottles inside books that he cut by hand in his final shipments to America, lest the Nazi’s confiscate the precious contents. 

 Today, the formula for Eight & Bob has been recovered, along with its painstaking  production process. It finds itself once more among the most exclusive colognes of elegant men throughout the world.

 Distilled from a wild, aromatic Andean plant, that grows in short supply due altitude and seasonal growth, Eight and Bob is derived from an exacting selection process from which only seven percent of the ingredients harvested are actually used. Only a few bottles are allotted to each country where they are sold, making it a rare gem of both olfactory brilliance and historical wealth.