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Kate Harwood's avatar

I love the font…

Kate Harwood's avatar

Looks like it. That open spacing - like you have all the paper in the world.

Bill Troop's avatar

Sorry pals, it is 200 years after Garamond, a modern. I don't have my Jaspert to check but it is most likely a Bodoni or a Walbaum, something along that Didone axis.

Luca Turin 🇮🇹🇪🇺's avatar

I was waiting for you to comment!

Bill Troop's avatar

Also, because the f doesn't seem to have an overhang, it is most likely a Linotype or Intertype recut, though you could safely guess that anyway by the time and location.

Bill Troop's avatar

Monotype Walbaum was notably open in its spacing, a gorgeous book type. There are no great digital versions though there have been many brave if misguided attempts. A related more modern type worth looking at is Teimer (https://befonts.com/teimer-font-family.html) first privately digitized in the 90s by the late Kathleen Tinkel. The Monotype metal is just wonderful - - it can be seen in many books printed in the UK from mid 1930s to the 1980s. I'm thinking of one of André Simon's books but can't remember the title or the year.

Kate Harwood's avatar

God. You’re WAY above my pay grade! That’s so interesting.

Cecilia's avatar

Please break open to smell and review ! For all those of us dying to know what these vintage gems were supposed to smell like untouched by time. Could they be opened and poured into those tiny 1ml sample tubes so it doesn’t disappear immediately I wonder.

Lorie McMillin's avatar

Oh Wind Song! My first perfume, gifted from a best friend, circa 1971/72. I have a little vintage bottle I acquired a couple of years ago. It is indeed still beautiful! A dead ringer for 22 by the way. At least with my lesser sophisticated nose. I’ll take 22 over 5 all day long. I absolutely love it. Give me aldehydes! Lots & Lots!!

Emma's avatar

They remind me of pricey fizzy wine - crack one open, hey everyone, try this it’s amazing! It’s only 3pm you say? Ah well, mustn’t let it spoil (glugluglug).

Linda's avatar

Mary Chess! My first big discovery in fragrance. Yram!

Mike Perez's avatar

I definitely remember seeing glass vials like this once in my life. Just seeing the picture you posted Luca triggered some old, back-of-my-mind memory...maybe a grandmother had these in her bathroom or something. I love how industrial they look...almost like a Snake Oil Doctor might be carrying around.

Does anyone remember those Cire Trudon air freshener glass pods that were similar to these (way before the brand was doing beauty fragrances & only doing home fragrances)? They had home fragrance liquid inside and you just threw them on the floor to break them. They were so weird. I gifted them to a friend who lived in Brooklyn (from Basenotes) and we laughed because once thrown the floor would be littered with shards of tiny glass. Obviously not for use in a house with kids or pets lol. I wonder how those sold?? lol

Romana's avatar

Really plastic, not glass? And I always thought it was something like "Prince Ruperts drops".

I want to tell you something about Schiaparelli: I don't believe it! I see what's happening with the old brands and their perfumes - Jil Sander, Patou... and I just don't believe that the new Shocking will be anything other than baked amboroxan for a shameful price. Sorry.

Luca Turin 🇮🇹🇪🇺's avatar

I don't know, Fath did a great job with Iris Gris...

Romana's avatar

I agree, all the brands of the Panouge group – Fath, Panouge, Isabey, Masaki – are doing a great job! But Panouge is in private hands – let’s say “family jewel”. Similar to Caron, Nicolai or P. de Rosine. People who are responsible on their own and do perfumery with passion.

But the coporation - it is an other business...

Luca Turin 🇮🇹🇪🇺's avatar

Disclosure: we’re friends which is why I don’t review their fragrances

Jaq Cassidy's avatar

Oh, these are a source of joy. I have some of these. Some I still have unopened. The thrill of opening one, but then the sadness once they're gone.

Mary Stephens Mitchell's avatar

I have a handful of nips in my stash (purchased for one dollar at an estate sale, for the lot). I can't bring myself to break them.

Notes On Useful Beauty's avatar

My mother wore Emeraude for years.

Cacio's avatar

Georgian princes must have been resourceful... just last week I was reading about the Mdivani brothers, self-styled Georgian princes who found success in Hollywood and married (briefly, presumably before the novelty wore off) famous actresses and heiresses. But they didn't do perfumes, alas...

Luca Turin 🇮🇹🇪🇺's avatar

By the sound of it they were more fun than posh Americans!

AnTsM 🇦🇺's avatar

It’s always exciting to discover a forgotten treasure!!!

Bourjois has sadly closed its doors. I collect the vintage perfume / makeup but also adored their modern line of makeup. I still use Bourjois makeup (I really stocked up) and find the occasional piece here and there online

I will be sad indeed when I use up my last piece

Ruth Watson's avatar

I bought the set of Dries van Noten samples/nips purely for their beauty. I am unlikely ever to try them.

Melissa Thompson's avatar

What a find! My grandmother wore Prince Matchabelli Ave Maria. Sadly, that company too has been sold off several times.

Andrea's avatar

I had these very same Nips. In the 1960's when I was just a child (born 1960). My mother gave me a small packet (as you have pictured) and told me they were very special. I was so in awe that I broke just one. Just 'to see and smell.' What my child mind made of it precisely I am not sure but it was enough to begin my curiosity in perfume. My mother passed many perfume miniatures to me in those 'mid century' years. I still have them all. Except, where did I store those nips?

M Vee's avatar

The world desperately needs Shocking to come back. No idea how a perfumer would go about replicating it these days, but I am now dreaming about this.