Showing posts with label fashion designer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fashion designer. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Parfums Calixte

 Calixte, a fashion designer at 227 rue St.-Honore, Paris, launched a short line of perfumes in the 1940s. These are virtually non-existent today.

Monday, July 29, 2019

Parfums de Callot Soeurs

Callot Soeurs was a couture house established in 1895 by three sisters Marie Callot Gerber, Marthe Callot Bertrand and Regine Callot Chantrelle at 9-10 avenue Matignon, Paris.




Monday, February 11, 2019

Gianni Versace by Versace c1981

Gianni Versace by Gianni Versace: launched in 1981 in association with the Charles of the Ritz group. This was the first perfume introduced by late fashion designer Versace.



Monday, January 4, 2016

Halston

Halston (pronounced HALL'-STON).

Established by fashion designer Roy Halston Frowick (1932-1990) in Des Moines; started as a milliner. There is tons of info on Halston online, so I won't go into that here, but I will concentrate on his fragrances.


Thursday, October 15, 2015

Calvin Klein by Calvin Klein c1978

Calvin Klein by Calvin Klein: launched in 1978 along with a complete makeup and skincare collection developed with Stanley Kohlenberg, the man who masterminded Norell fragrances at Revlon. 

Due to the packaging, this is also known as Calvin Klein (red) by collectors.


Saturday, October 3, 2015

Mollie Parnis by Mollie Parnis c1978

Mollie Parnis by Mollie Parnis: launched in 1978 under the name Mollie Parnis Cosmetics Dist., possibly in conjunction with Parfums Weil. The perfume was concocted in France but botted in the USA. She chose tuberose as a main ingredient as it was her favorite flower, one of which she used to keep fresh blossoms in vases in her office.

In a 1977 article, Mollie Parnis mentions that "The French had ideas about perfume, I had some about fashion, we finally agreed...The world is getting more American designer oriented...I believe that creativity, whether it's in the arts or anything else, is where the money is. The money is here, we have the know-how and the creativity. "


Thursday, January 9, 2014

Guy Laroche

Guy Laroche was born on July 16, 1923 near La Rochelle on France's Atlantic coast. Before he traveled to the USA, he worked briefly as a milliner even though he had no formal training. While he was in the United States, he studied manufacturing methods for ready to wear clothing.


Sunday, November 17, 2013

Parfums Worth

Worth was a couture house located at 7 rue de la Paix, Paris.


 It was established in 1858 by Charles Frederick Worth . He was born in 1826 and trained in England. Soon began designing dresses for his wife, and the admiration of others caused Worth to open a fashion department in a fabric store where he worked after 1846. He became a successful couturier, designing for Empress Eugenie and other European royalty.


Saturday, April 27, 2013

Marcel Guerlain & Hughes Guerlain Perfumes

Please note that two other Parisian perfume companies should not be confused with the Guerlain family company are Marcel Guerlain and Hughes Guerlain.


Welcome!

This is not your average perfume blog. In each post, I present perfumes or companies as encyclopedic entries with as much facts and photos as I can add for easy reading and researching without all the extraneous fluff or puffery.

Please understand that this website is not affiliated with any of the perfume companies written about here, it is only a source of reference. I consider it a repository of vital information for collectors and those who have enjoyed the classic fragrances of days gone by. Updates to posts are conducted whenever I find new information to add or to correct any errors.

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.

Also, if you have any information not seen here, please comment and share with all of us.

Featured Post

Faking Perfume Bottles to Increase Their Value

The issue of adding "after market" accents to rather plain perfume bottles to increase their value is not new to the world o...