Showing posts with label schiaparelli. Show all posts
Showing posts with label schiaparelli. Show all posts

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, October 27, 2016

Si by Schiaparelli c1957

Si by Schiaparelli: launched in 1957. "Si" got its name from the "Valse des Si." dedicated to her by composer Henri Sauguet. "Si" can mean both the musical note B and "it" — it also consists of the first and last letters of Schiaparelli). The perfume is also said to be from Juliette Greco's song "Si". Notice the musical notes on the advertisement below.

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Snuff by Schiaparelli c1939

Snuff by Schiaparelli: launched in 1939. The name was taken from the color brown dubbed "Snuff" by Elsa Schiaparelli.


Friday, February 19, 2016

Shocking You by Schiaparelli c1976

Shocking You by Schiaparelli: launched in 1976. I believe that this may be the reformulated version of 'S' by Schiaparelli as the notes are very similar.


Saturday, June 6, 2015

Zut by Schiaparelli c1948

Zut by Elsa Schiaparelli: launched in 1948 and possibly created by a Jean Carles and Roure.

As for the name, it was quite controversial for the time, at least it was in France. The name "Zut," pronounced "zoot," in French means "damn". In the book Antique Trader Perfume Bottles, Kyle Husfloen and Penny Dolnick said that "reportedly inspired by an accident that occurred to Elsa Schiaparelli when the waist elastic on her slip broke at a train station and the slip fell to her feet."

In a 19850 issue of the Cincinatti Enquirer it stated that "the name doesn't mean a thing, Elsa says. It just popped into her head one day when she walked through the suit production room of her Paris atelier."



Saturday, February 28, 2015

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.

Friday, December 6, 2013

Le Roy Soleil by Schiaparelli c1947

Le Roy Soleil is a perfume by Elsa Schiaparelli produced in 1947, to celebrate the end of the World War by recalling the glory days of the Louis XIV.

Schiaparelli commissioned Salvador Dali to design the bottle. It was produced in a limited edition of only 2000 bottles and it is an homage to the Sun King.




Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Salut de Schiaparelli c1934

Salut by Schiaparelli: launched in 1934, and was meant to be worn as an accessory to women's sports clothes and was recommended for young girls.






Thursday, June 6, 2013

Succes Fou by Schiaparelli c1953

Succes Fou by Schiaparelli: launched in 1953. The name means "Raving Success" or "Smash Hit" in French. Only launched in USA in 1953.



Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Shocking by Schiaparelli c1936

Shocking by Schiaparelli: created by Jean Carles and launched in 1936 in France and 1937 in the USA.  The perfume was said to be "first developed by Mme. Schiaparelli for her own use" according to a 1938 newspaper ad.

It was named after a particular shade of hot pink that she named, "Shocking Pink", which was also used by designer Paul Poiret, her mentor.




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