Eau de toilette is a type of perfume. It literally translates to “toilet water”, but culturally it means “the good stuff” in the context of perfumes. The idiom has jumped languages, and people say “eau de …” In english, often to satarize high fashion.
Eau de toilette is a type of perfume. It literally translates to “toilet water”
Toilette here (and originally) means clean-up, personal hygiene. And then it was used for the room where you clean yourself up, and then it was specifically the latrines.
Eau de toilette is a type of perfume. It literally translates to “toilet water”, but culturally it means “the good stuff” in the context of perfumes. The idiom has jumped languages, and people say “eau de …” In english, often to satarize high fashion.
Toilette here (and originally) means clean-up, personal hygiene. And then it was used for the room where you clean yourself up, and then it was specifically the latrines.