Schiaparelli Shocking : Vintage and Modern Perfume Review - Bois de Jasmin
"Elsa Schiaparelli describes how she decided to name her perfume. “The color flashed in front of my eyes. Bright, impossible, impudent, becoming, life-giving, like all the light and the birds and the fish in the world put together, a color of China and Peru but not of the West—a shocking color, pure and undiluted.”" - from a blog article devoted to Shocking from Bois de Jasmin