Vintage Perfume & Vanity items from 1900 to 1990s

ID# 1270 Coty Les Muses 1 oz Eau de Parfum Beautiful perfume from the 1970s. available Price: $ 110 Item 1270 Get more details

ID# 1499 Givenchy L'interdit 1/2 oz Parfum with box L'Interdit was secretly created in 1954 and was worn only by actress Audrey Hepburn, to whom it was given as a gift by Hubert de Givenchy, who had dressed her. The word interdit is French for "forbidden." The parfumeur behind this feminine aldehydic-floral fragrance was Francis Fabron (1913–2005). It has a delicate, floral, powdery aroma. It contains notes of rose, jasmine, violet and, at the heart, a blend of woods and grasses. This is a rare, original formula 1/2 oz parfum still sealed but has some evaporation. I would say this is from the late 1970s. available Price: $ 75 Item 1499 Get more details

ID# 1407 Guerlain Parure 1/4 oz Parfum NIB This box is still sealed with cellophane. There is no bar code on the box which indicates it is pre-1989. It is the old black and white zig zag box, which was discontinued in the 1980s. The bottle inside is the quadrilobe design. Parure by Guerlain is a Chypre Fruity fragrance for women. Parure was launched in 1975. The nose behind this fragrance was Jean-Paul Guerlain, which he created for his mother. It was discontinued due to Jean-Paul refusing to reformulate it without oakmoss. Top notes are Plum, Green Notes, Bergamot, Fruity Notes and Citruses Middle notes are Rose, Narcissus, Orris Root, Lilac, Lily-of-the-Valley and Jasmine Base notes are Oakmoss, Leather, Spices, Patchouli and Amber. Parure is a wonder and a chypre for the die-hard chypre lover. Extremely rare to find a bottle any longer. available Price: $ 150 Item 1407 Get more details

ID# 1491 Guerlain Mitsouko 1/2 oz Parfum with box 1960s 1/2 oz Amphora bottle, also referred to as the Bud Bottle. Small amount of evaporation. Bottle is sealed and still has the cellophane around the stopper. Great perfume. 1960s was a great time for Mitsouko, with loads of oakmoss! Yum! French tax stamp on bottom of bottle. Listed Price: $ 200 Item 1491 Get more details

ID# 1435 Lorie Perfumers Jasmine of Southern France 1/2 oz Ultra Rare 1927 Parfum Lorie Perfumers was located in LA, CA in the 1920s and they launched fragrances and toiletries using Czechoslovakian bottles. Jasmine of Southern France perfume was first released around 1927. I usually don't recommend a jasmine perfume more than 50 years old. They turn rancid smelling. But this is truly the best smelling jasmine and I have smelled. When Chanel created Chanel No 5 in 1921 they used the best jasmine from Grasse, France. Once they started to use that jasmine, they had to continue to maintain the exact composition. And so they bought most of the jasmine produced in Grasse, leaving only jasmine from India and Greece for other perfume houses. Even today, in Grasse, there is very little production of jasmine flowers available to other perfume houses, it is reserved almost exclusively for Chanel. It is harvested by the Mul family who owns large plantations in Grasse. This perfume is undoubtedly Jasmine Grandiflorum. A type of jasmine that is so expensive no one can even afford to use it in commercial perfumes. Today, the price for a soliflor Jasmine Grandiflorum perfume would retail for at least $2,000 an oz. I am not joking here. Now you know why no one can reproduce Chanel No 5. Knock-offs have to use the lesser quality of jasmine and it is obviously not as good as what Chanel produces. available Price: $ 150 Item 1435 Get more details

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