A few years ago, I owned a wonderful boxed set of seven recreated ancient perfumes entitled "The Fragrant Past: Perfumes of Cleopatra & Julius Caesar". These were made expressly for an exhibition at the Emory University Museum of Art & Archaeology in 1989. The seven ancient perfume formulas were prepared by professor Giuseppe Donato, Director Emeritus of the Institute of Applied Technologies, National Research Council of Italy. The perfumes are non-alcoholic oil based and are basically skin scents, with little sillage.
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Showing posts with label Egypt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Egypt. Show all posts
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Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Elizabeth Arden Treasures of the Pharaohs Vanity Collectibles
For Christmas 1982, Elizabeth Arden offered her Blue Grass bath line in beautiful porcelain vanity
accessories. These accessories had an exotic theme, Ancient Egypt. The line was dubbed "Treasures of the Pharaohs" and was based on some actual ancient artifacts found in tombs of the pharaohs and nobles.
I have compiled a list of items included in the line:
- Double headed ibex boat held three shell shaped soaps.
- Horus the falcon powder jar
- Frog pomander
- Cat shaped bath salts trinket box
- Camel shaped bath salts trinket box
- Hippo shaped candle holder with lid
- Dresser tray decorated with lotus motifs
- Cat shaped pomander
- Bird pomander
- Duck shaped soap dish
- Egyptian sarcophagus shaped dresser jar with bath salts
- Lotus shaped candle holder with lid.
- Ibis bird box
- Lotus decorated jar/lid (four petal top, jagged edges, half circle knob)
- Lotus decorated small jar/lid candle holder, (four petal top, smooth edges, flower knob)
- Lotus decorated tall jar for bath crystals, with round stopper, rounded bottom, on 3 leg brass stand
- Tall vase shaped jar with blue triangle design, with double lotus stopper
- Small round dish with lotus
- Queen Nefertari decorative bust on stand
photo by ruby lane seller GreatVintageStff
Photo from Perfume Bottles Auction
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Ahmed Soliman and Shimy Brothers Perfumes
In this guide I will introduce you to the world of the vintage perfumes by Ahmed Soliman & the Shimy Brothers Perfume Companies of Egypt.
These two competitors catered to the higher end of the tourist trade. Both Ahmed Soliman & the Shimy Brothers perfumes are very rare finds today, and command very high prices when offered at auction. From the pictures below, you can see the various types of perfume bottles that can be found.
These two competitors catered to the higher end of the tourist trade. Both Ahmed Soliman & the Shimy Brothers perfumes are very rare finds today, and command very high prices when offered at auction. From the pictures below, you can see the various types of perfume bottles that can be found.
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Cairo's Perfume King,
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Egyptian,
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Shimy Bros,
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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.
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.
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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.
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