#vintage perfume

miss-rumphius:

I recently acquired my grandma’s old perfume bottle collection while we were helping her move into her new place. And what a splendid collection it is! I’m quite lucky, there are some real gems in her collection. 

Front row from L to R: 

Marcel Franck (L’Escale I believe), Christian Dior Diorella (my mom bought this for my grandma while living in France during the 70’s. It’s apparently a rare bottle, made the first year of the perfumes production), Faberge Woodhue (this one was made in the 40’s), Madam Rochas (from the 60’s I believe), and Faberge Spray Cologne Tigress. 

Back row from L to R: 

Jean Patou (I’ve been unable to find out which scent this is unfortunately), Step Paris, Guerlain’s Shalimar eau de toilette (from the 40’s), Guerlain (not sure which scent it is).  

My new collection of vintage perfume bottles! Thought I would share them on this blog as well. 

When I saw this Evening in Paris set of beauty products I couldn’t help but marvel over it. It even had all of the products in the containers! While I was oohing and ahhing over this my friend Anya noticed that it was a music box as well. So she turned the knob and lovely notes started playing. I was so intrigued by this brand that I did a little research when I came home.

The Evening in Paris scent was created in 1928 by Ernest Beaux. He is also the man  behind the creation of Chanel no 5. This set of bottles appears to be from the 1930’s because of the curved silver label. And it would have most-likely been sold around the holidays since that was when they released special gift sets. Evening in Paris was touted as “the fragrance that more women wear than any other in the world” for it’s classic sweet floral scent.