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Monday, February 12, 2024
Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Saturday, February 11, 2023
Vintage Counterfeit Perfumes and Fantasy Fakes
During the 20th century, the perfume industry was rife with counterfeiting at every turn. There was some trickery going on in the 1930s-1950s regarding designer named perfumes. I can find famous names on bogus labels for perfumes in bottles that you would never see used by that brand. Various con men had boxes and labels printed up, then decanted or adulterated, refilling cheaper bottles with even cheaper perfume, then slapping the newly printed labels on them, and passing them off as genuine.
I have created a comprehensive guide for fake vintage perfumes going back to the 1920s and into the 1970s. Much of the crucial information I have gathered has been revealed nowhere else and it can answer a lot of questions regarding so called "rare" editions or bottles of designer perfumes.
Discussed in this guide are rebottlers, fake pricing schemes, and outright counterfeits. A significant portion of the guide is devoted to what I call "fantasy fakes." Fantasy fakes are, in my own parlance and definition, is the usage of bottles and labels that a genuine perfumery brand would have never used. This also includes names of perfumes that were never part of their catalog such as "Ce Soir Ou Jamais" by Christian Dior. I have done extensive research on these in order to determine whether they are genuine or fake. You might be surprised, delighted or even disappointed at the information I uncovered.
Before you shell out hundreds for a rare "Poiret" perfume bottle, please see my guide first!
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Asphodele by Lentheric c1926
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Miracle by Lentheric c1924
Monday, December 9, 2019
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Garwood's Standard Perfumes
Thursday, August 8, 2019
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Monday, April 15, 2019
Saturday, June 9, 2018
Monday, June 4, 2018
Colgate Perfumes
Key Dates:
- 1806: Company is founded by William Colgate in New York to make starch, soap, and candles.
- 1857: After founder's death, company becomes known as Colgate & Company.
- 1873: Toothpaste is first marketed.
- 1896: Collapsible tubes for toothpaste are introduced.
- 1898: B.J. Johnson Soap Company (later renamed Palmolive Company) introduces Palmolive soap.
- 1910: Colgate moves from original location to Jersey City, New Jersey.
- 1926: Palmolive merges with Peet Brothers, creating Palmolive-Peet Company.
- 1928: Colgate and Palmolive-Peet merge, forming Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Company.
- 1947: Fab detergent and Ajax cleanser are introduced.
- 1953: Company changes its name to Colgate-Palmolive Company.
- 1956: Corporate headquarters shifts back to New York.
- 1966: Palmolive dishwashing liquid is introduced.
- 1967: Sales top $1 billion.
- 1968: Colgate toothpaste is reformulated with fluoride; Ultra Brite is introduced.
- 1976: Hill's Pet Products is purchased.
- 1987: The Softsoap brand of liquid soap is acquired.
- 1992: The Mennen Company is acquired; Total toothpaste is introduced overseas.
- 1995: Latin American firm Kolynos Oral Care is acquired; Colgate-Palmolive undergoes major restructuring.
- 1997: Total toothpaste is launched in the United States; Colgate takes lead in domestic toothpaste market.
- 2004: Company acquires European oral care firm GABA Holding AG; major restructuring is launched.
Colgate Company of Jersey City, NJ from 1879 to 1959.
Colgate & Company had been a pioneer in establishing international operations, creating a Canadian subsidiary in 1913 and one in France in 1920. In the early 1920s the firm expanded into Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Mexico. Colgate or its successor firm next created subsidiaries in the Philippines, Brazil, Argentina, and South Africa in the late 1920s. In 1937 the company moved into India and by the end of the 1940s had operations in most of South America. By 1939 Colgate-Palmolive-Peet's sales hit $100 million.
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Sunday, February 18, 2018
Help! My Perfume Has Sediment and has Darkened
Monday, December 18, 2017
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Saturday, September 2, 2017
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Welcome!
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!
Please leave a comment below (for example: of why you liked the fragrance, describe the scent, time period or age you wore it, who gave it to you or what occasion, any specific memories, what it reminded you of, maybe a relative wore it, or you remembered seeing the bottle on their vanity table, did you like the bottle design), who knows, perhaps someone from the company brand might see it.
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