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Sunday, May 3, 2015

Galeries Lafayette Perfumes

Galeries Lafayette. This fabulous department store was founded in 1893 and boasts 7 floors of fashionable clothing, perfume, haberdashery, food, and all sorts of other designer and gourmet attractions.

The ground floor houses mostly cosmetics and perfumes, and is quite possibly the largest perfume store in the world!In the early part of the 20th century, many department stores started creating their own in-house perfumes and cosmetics, both in America and in Paris.

Around 1911, they introduced perfumes under their own label. The perfumes Royal Origan, Lafayette, Mai au Bois, La Fenaison and Moia were created for Galerie Lafayette by the famous Francois Coty.



The perfume bottle for  La Feuillaison was made by Rene Lalique.

 Finding these original vintage perfumes is tough, I have listed all that I could find. If you know of another, please let me know.

The perfumes of Galeries Lafayette:

  • 1911 La Feuillaison
  • 1919 Chypre
  • 1920 Terre de Rez (face powder)
  • 1920 Ambre-Lys
  • 1922 Moia
  • 1922 Mai au Bois
  • 1922 Lafayette
  • 1923 M
  • 1923 Royal Origan
  • 1924 M'lati


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