concept
Brocard's
also: Брокар
A real and famous Moscow perfume and soap manufacturer (founded by the Frenchman Henri Brocard), a byword for fashionable scent, invoked here for comic bathos.
Reading notes
- The Mysteries of One Hundred and Forty-Four Catastrophes §32 Brocard's
Brocard was a real and famous Moscow perfume and soap manufacturer (founded by the Frenchman Henri Brocard); a byword for fashionable scent, invoked here for comic bathos.