Les Parfums Forest, also known as Parfumerie Forest, was established by M. Leon Cohn at 48 rue de Richelieu, Paris in 1910. The business was sub-titled "Parfumerie Moderne". This French company often used English words for their fragrances, as it was very fashionable at the time to use foreign names to convey luxury and prestige, another example is when American and English perfumers used French words.
Parfumerie Forest produced luxury presentation and utilized high quality French crystal bottles, colorful packaging and fanciful names.
Baccarat supplied many of the bottles to house Forest's perfumes including the ones for: Chypre, Favori, Bouquet des Amourex, Rose, Perle de la Mer, Jasmin, Forest Eau de Toilette (model #510) and Ming Toy.
Julien Viard lent his artistic creativity to design some of the bottles: Royal Moderne and Grand Chic.
The fragrances of Parfumerie Forest:
- 1923 Chypre
- 1923 Eau de Toilette
- 1923 Jasmin
- 1923 Rose
- 1923 Ming Toy
- 1924 Bouquet des Amoureux
- 1924 Favori
- 1924 Grand Chic
- 1924 Marie Antoinette
- 1924 Kreylis
- 1924 Perle de la Mer
- 1924 Royal Moderne
- 1925 Premonda
- 1926 Aldiguila
- 1926 Beaucaire
- 1926 Monceau
- 1927 Fleurs
- 1946 Jalousie
- 1946 Ami Intime
- 1946 Nuit Sauvage
- 1946 Personnalite
- 1946 Simplicite
- 1946 Pour Moi
- 1946 Ame Joyeuse
- 1946 Femme Heureuse
Bottles:
Ming Toy:
Ming Toy Perfume Bottle. On March 25, 1924, Leon Cohn of Paris, France, patented his design in America for a perfume bottle. The bottle represented a seated figure of a traditional Chinese girl with opened fan in hand and fancy headdress which formed the stopper of the bottle. The bottle was manufactured by Baccarat. The name "Ming Toy" is painted across the face of the fan, and the bottle of crystal glass has been decorated with colored enamels and gold. The bottle stands 4 3/8" tall. The perfume was still being sold in 1935.
Grand Chic:
Grand Chic, launched in 1918, still sold in 1924. This luxurious bottle in solid colorless pressed glass, molded with a cylindrical oval section, its curved curved body is decorated with four medallions and mistletoe in richly patinated anthracite reserves, high flared neck, with its faceted oval stopper repeating the same decor. Model designed by Julien Viard and attributed to Maurice Dépinoix. Height: 9cm.
Premonda:
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