
Mata Hari - Fragrance Profile
For today’s fragrance profile I feel it is important to detail a bit about the history of the character who inspired the fragrance. ‘Mata Hari’ is Malay for ‘sun’ or literally “eye of the day”. It was the stage name taken by Margreet Zelle Macleod, an exotic dancer and courtesan who was executed under charges of espionage for Germany during World War I. Born in the Netherlands, she moved to Indonesia to start a family but with the dissolution of her marriage then moved to Par