Showing posts with label Guerlain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Guerlain. Show all posts

Sunday, July 26, 2020

Au Bon Vieux Temps by Guerlain c1890

Au Bon Vieux Temps by Guerlain: launched in 1890. Created by Jacques Guerlain. The name means "The Good Old Times" and recalls the scents of the old potpourri jars (sweet jars) found in homes and the heavy musk worn by so many in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.


Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Collecting Blue Glass Commercial Perfume Bottles


In this guide, I will introduce you to the wonderful world of commercial perfume bottles made up of blue glass.

These elegant beauties were produced mainly during the 1920s-1950s and most have Art Deco influences. I know I don't have every one listed, if I missed one, let me know! Current values given below are for average book values and auction estimates. Why not start a collection focusing on just the blue glass bottles?

Sunday, April 16, 2017

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Dolores Del Rio and Her Perfume Collection

Dolores Del Rio and her beautiful perfume collection.





In this photo I spy:
  • Lerys 6 bottle presentation in bronze caddy
  • Parfum des Champs Elysées/À Travers Champs/Guerlinade or Candide Effluve by Guerlain
  • Jungla by Myrurgia c1933
  • unknown early Elizabeth Arden
  • Secret de la Perle by Pleville c1926
  • two Prince Matchabelli bottles
  • La Jacee by Coty
  • Sans Adieu by Worth c1929 (Lalique bottle)
  • Les Lys by D'Orsay c1922 (Lalique bottle)
  • Hattie Carnegie c1925 (Depinoix bottle)
  • Lentheric (Baccarat bottle)
  • Elizabeth Arden
  • She is holding an early Lancome bottle, possibly for Kypre or Bocages

I cannot make out all of the bottles, nor can I make out labels, but if you can, please comment below. 

Monday, February 10, 2014

Edie Adams and Perfumes c1956

Actress Edie Adams and her perfume bottle collection in 1956.






I can see several bottles of:
Balmain perfumes
Lanvin perfumes
Guerlain watch bottle for eau de cologne
Le Galion bottles
Narcisse Noir by Caron
Succes Fou by Schiaparelli (leaf shaped flacon)
Fille d'Eve by Nina Ricci (Lalique apple flacon)
Nuit de Noel by Caron
Cairo by Kesma
Ecusson by Jean Desprez (she is holding this flacon)
1940s pressed glass flacons imitating the Czech styles of the 1930s with the large stoppers.

Barbara Pepper and Perfumes c1930s

Vintage movie still photographs by John Miehle of the 1937 film Coast Patrol (later retitled as Sea Devils) starring Barbara Pepper.








Barbara Pepper (1915 - 1969) - Photo via Rantings of a Modern Day Glamour Girl.

In this vintage 1930s photo I can identify several perfume bottles of Guerlain's Vol de Nuit/Sous Le Vent, Chanel, Caron's Bellodgia, Caron's Pois de Senteur de Chez Moi, a Lalique perfume bottle, Ciro's Reflexions, Patou's Joy, Houbigant's Essence Rare, Elizabeth Arden''s Blue Grass, as well as a few Czech bottles and unknown bottles. She is holding the largest size of the Ybry perfumes.


Here is another angle of the same vanity table. I can also see a bottle of : Caron's Narcisse Noir. She has placed that large Ybry bottle at the back of her vanity.




Monday, September 23, 2013

Perfume Nips and Perfume Typers

Perfume nips are small plastene or glass vials which hold tiny samples of perfume. The most famous of perfume nip companies was the Nipola Products Company and Nips,Inc. The ends of the vials could be broken off and the perfume would then be applied to the skin or handkerchief.

Friday, April 26, 2013

Nebuleuse by Guerlain

"In 1961, Salvador Dalí and Maurice Béjart created the ballet Gala , preceded by a baroque opera by Gonfalioneri: La Dame espagnole et le chevalier romain . The show, conceived as "théâtre total", was performed in 1961 at La Fenice in Venice and a few months later in the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels and Paris in 1962.

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This is not your average perfume blog. In each post, I present perfumes or companies as encyclopedic entries with as much facts and photos as I can add for easy reading and researching without all the extraneous fluff or puffery.

Please understand that this website is not affiliated with any of the perfume companies written about here, it is only a source of reference. I consider it a repository of vital information for collectors and those who have enjoyed the classic fragrances of days gone by. Updates to posts are conducted whenever I find new information to add or to correct any errors.

One of the goals of this website is to show the present owners of the various perfumes and cologne brands that are featured here how much we miss the discontinued classics and hopefully, if they see that there is enough interest and demand, they will bring back these fragrances!

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