Sunday, April 6, 2014

Les Parfums Godet

Godet Perfumery was established at 37 rue saint-Lazare, Paris in 1901 by Julien-Joseph Godet.




The company sold perfumes, toiletries and cosmetics, such as the popular Ma Poudre (My Powder) in 1911, which proved to be an avant garde presentation for its time.

Godet succeeded in becoming a major international company by 1913, sadly the same year in which Julien-Joseph Godet died. The company was then taken control by his widow Louise and the company's director, Abel Ravaud.

The Rexall Drug Store was the exclusive agent for Godet's perfumes for United States distribution in 1913.

The company won a gold medal at the 1925 Exposition in Paris for their lovely perfume Folie Bleue, with its composition artfully blended with notes of bergamot, violet and woods.

It seems that the Depression and World War II halted production considerably for the company as there are no new perfumes released during these times.





Godet has been resurrected: http://parfumsgodet.com/

I have listed all of the perfumes I could find, there may be more.

The perfumes of Godet:

  • 1900 Oeillet D'Automne
  • 1900 Bouquet de Lilas
  • 1900 Bouquet de Muguet
  • 1904 Envois de Fleurs
  • 1908 Sous-Bois
  • 1909 Fleurs de Reine
  • 1909 Concentre de Violette
  • 1909 Concentre de Rose
  • 1909 Concentre de Muguet
  • 1909 Concentre de Oeillet
  • 1909 Concentre de Iris
  • 1909 Concentre de Lilas
  • 1909 Concentre de Cyclamen
  • 1909 Concentre de Jasmin
  • 1910 Gentil Muguet
  • 1911 Parfum d'Ambre
  • 1911 Trésor de Jasmin
  • 1911 Trésor de Violet
  • 1911 Trésor de Muguet
  • 1911 Trésor des Prairies
  • 1911 Trésor de Oeillet
  • 1912 Tresor Royale
  • 1912 Parfums de Luxe
  • 1912 Artistic 
  • 1912 Brindilles Parfumées
  • 1912 Aubepine Blanche
  • 1912 Exquisite
  • 1912 Blanche Bruyere
  • 1912 Le Secret de Suzette
  • 1912 La Rose Jocelyn
  • 1912 Violette La France
  • 1912 Rose Ambree
  • 1913 Jerusalem
  • 1913 Parfum d'Islam
  • 1913 Marcinah
  • 1913 Mondanite
  • 1913 Le Coeur D'Une Rose
  • 1913 Violette de Parme
  • 1914 Rosy Kiss
  • 1914 Violet Reve
  • 1915 Violette de Nice
  • 1917 Selectis
  • 1917 Le Mimosa
  • 1919 Cyclamen Fleuri
  • 1920 Chypre de Godet
  • 1920 Heliotrope 
  • 1920 Narcisse
  • 1920 Gardenia
  • 1920 Jasmin
  • 1920 Violette
  • 1920 La Rose
  • 1920 Verveine
  • 1920 Fougere
  • 1920 Chevrefeuille
  • 1921 Petite Fleur Bleue
  • 1920 Parmi des Fleurs
  • 1921 Cuir de Russie
  • 1923 Tut-An-Kham - Parfum Egyptian
  • 1924 Divinité
  • 1924 Revelation
  • 1924 Week End
  • 1924 Chant du Soir
  • 1925 Bouquet des Amours
  • 1925 Week-End
  • 1925 Fleur Noire
  • 1925 Divin Mensonge
  • 1925 Nuit D'Amour (This is the re-branded fragrance 'Soir de Lune' by Brecher)
  • 1925 Folie Bleue
  • 1927 Jasmin Fleuri
  • 1927 Marjolaine
  • 1927 Charmant Lilas
  • 1927 Bouquet Essences
  • 1929 Les Fourgeres
  • 1929 Predilection
  • 1953 Week-End, relaunched
  • 1950s Spring


The perfume Chant du Soir is classified as a floral chypre fragrance for women.
  •  Top notes: bergamot, lily of the valley 
  • Middle notes: rose, jasmine and carnation
  • Base notes: amber, oakmoss, musk, sandalwood and civet


Cosmetics & Toiletries:


Brilliantine:

  • Bouquet D'Heliotrope
  • Bouquet de Muguet
  • Bouquet Lilas
  • Brindilles Parfumees
  • Coeur d'Une Rose
  • Cyclamen
  • Charmant Lilas
  • Chevrefeuille
  • Chypre
  • Chypre de Godet
  • Divinite
  • F1eurs de Reine
  • Folie Bleue
  • Gardenia
  • Gentil Muguet
  • Les Fougeres
  • Marjolaine
  • Mimosa
  • Oeillet d'Automne
  • Parmi les Fleurs
  • Petite Fleur Bleue
  • Rose Ambree
  • Rose Joselyn
  • Sous Bois
  • Tresor de Violette
  • Violette de Nice
  • Violette de Parme


Rouge:

  • Mandarine
  • Brunette
  • Blonde

Lipstick
Eyeliner

Face Powder Compacts:

  • Parmi les Fleurs
  • Petite Fleur Bleue
  • Rose Ambree
  • Sous Bois
  • Tresor de Violette


Talc:

  • Chypre Godet
  • Divinite
  • Gentil Muguet
  • Oeillet d'Automne
  • Parmi les F1eurs
  • Petite Fleur Bleu
  • Rose Ambree
  • Sous Bois
  • Tresor de Violette


Bath Salts:

  • Petite F1eur Bleue


Perfumed Sachet:
  • Folie Bleue
  • Petite F1eur Bleue


The Winnipeg Tribune, 1912:
"GODET'S PERFUMES, In the following odors, lithographed and embossed boxes: Aubepine, Blanche Bruyere, Cyclamen, Lilas, Muguet, and Violette $1.50 and $2.50 each. The following odors in beautiful lithographed and embossed boxes: Brindilles Parfumees, Le Secret de Suzettes, Rose Ambree, and Tresor de Violette $2.50 each. The following odors in cut Baccarat bottles, embossed and lithographed boxes: Tresor Royals, Tresor de Muguet, Tresor de Jasmine, Parfumea de Luxe, Violette de France, Le Rose Jocelyn $6.00 each. The same odors as above, in leather box $7.50 each. "Exquisite," cut glass bottle, decorated in gold, enamel portrait, in leather satin-lined jewel case $15.00."


Bottles:

 The company's perfume bottles displayed some of the finest labels of the era.

Baccarat was a supplier for many of their perfume bottles. Cristalleries de Baccarat flacons design numbers as follows:
  • #116 which was also used by Annick Goutal
  • #118
  • #280
  • #626

Other bottles are the red opaque glass flacons made by H. Saumont, these bottles were also used by the Lionceau perfume company for their perfumes. Other bottles were made by Depinoix.

 More commonly found are the mini dram bottles for various Godet perfumes, these date to the 1920s-1930s.











In this 1930 advertisement for the luxury perfume box manufacturer Gouvernent, we can see that they were the ones who provided the presentation box for the Godet perfume Divin Mensonge! This MAY be the ONLY image of the perfume's box currently in existence.



























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