Vicky Tiel by Vicky Tiel c1990

Vicky Tiel by Vicky Tiel: launched in 1990. In USA in 1991. Also known as "Vicky Tiel Originale".

The Cincinnati Inquirer, 1990:

“I wanted to make a perfume that no man could resist. I wanted to make a fragrance to drive men wild and help women keep their men.” Vicky Tiel said in an interview when she was promoting the perfume. 

To test the fragrance, Tiel gave questionnaires to couples who were in “committed” relationships. Women asked the questions; the men responded. Tiel avoided men who were dating. “I thought that men who were dating wouldn’t tell the truth.” 

Tiel believes that most women find life more satisfactory if they have a man and that “one of women’s great mistakes was our demand for severe feminism during the 1960s and 1970s where we turned men off... I run a company where I have over 55 employees, and I’m still feminine and a woman’s woman. I still try to look my best and be as beautiful, attractive and desirable to the man in my life as I can be. I will always be this.”

The Tennessean, 1990:

"Unlike many signature fragrance, the scent was created by the couturier herself and not by a large cosmetics firm. Tiel spent five years developing the scent and finding a appropriate container to hold it. She wanted to blend a fragrance that was sensual and erotic. A non-traditional fragrance much like the designer herself, it is a blend of florals with woodsy notes. 

Tiel worked with a “nose”,  (a professional perfume blender) to develop the fragrance that bears her name. She worked directly with one of the world’s greatest perfume bottle designers, Pierre Dinand, who created an objet d’art to hold the scent, which was then produced by Brosse, glassmakers of museum quality bottles for over a century. 

Research for the perfume took her to Cairo, Egypt, where she was inspired by museum exhibits. The fragrance is packaged in a blue frosted glass bottle the color of Egyptian glass from 500 BC. The stopper for the 1.7 oz bottle of perfume is a sculpted figure of Venus. Bas reliefs of the Goddess of Love also encircle the eau de parfum bottle and is centered on the lid of the body cream pot. When you’re out to catch a man, all’s fair, according to Tiel, who tested her fragrance on men only, in order to create a fragrance that would attract the male species like crazy and help women to hang on the ones they have.   

But spinning that aphrodisiacal web doesn’t come cheap. The 1.7 oz bottle of perfume in the collector’s bottle is $300; the eau de parfum in 3.4 oz spray is $115, a ¼ ounce perfume purse spray retails at $75 and the body cream which is made by Georgette Mosbacher’s Swiss based company, La Prairie is $80.”

Fragrance Composition:

So what does it smell like? It is classified as a powdery floral oriental fragrance for women.

• Top notes: neroli, green notes, Italian bergamot, mignonette, Oriental mandarin orange, Amalfi lemon, camellia
• Middle notes: rose, orchid, lily of the valley, jasmine, orange blossom, narcissus, jonquil, hyacinth
• Base notes: cedar, tuberose, Indian sandalwood, oakmoss, amber, musk, vanilla, heliotrope

Bottle:

The beautiful parfum bottle used for Vicky Tiel was designed by Pierre Dinand in 1990 and manufactured by Verreries Brosse. The bottle features a shell shaped stopper terminating with a three dimensional figure of Venus which when submerged into the clear glass, amphora shaped bottle, looks as if she is floating in perfume.

Pierre Dinand took his inspiration for the stopper from an antique perfume bottle originally manufactured in Czechoslovakia in the 1920s-1930s by Heinrich Hoffmann. Tiel's bottles can also be found with a frosted blue glass finish either molded with nudes or without. See info below:

For the spray flacons, the beautiful perfume bottle was designed by Pierre Dinand and manufactured by Verreries Brosse with plastic components supplied by SERN. The bottles are amphora shaped and feature nudes along a frosted background, in the style reminiscent of Lalique.

Pierre Dinand took his inspiration from an antique perfume bottle originally designed by Julien Viard in 1916 for Avenel's Reve Bleu. Contrary to belief, Lalique did not design nor manufacture the bottles.

Vicky Tiel herself mentioned in her blog: "I set off in 1987 for Egypt where perfume originated in 1000 BC. The word perfume derived from the Latin word meaning “through smoke” as the first perfumes were made in Cyprus blending by smoke many natural aromatics, oils, water and alcohol. I copied the original bottle colors of the Queen of Egypt’s amphoras which I bought at the Cairo museum and took them back to the atelier of Pierre Dinand, the French master bottle designer."

The Saint-Louis Dispatch, 1990:

“Vicky Tiel may not be the best-known name in apparel, but her bottles have created a sensation in the I. Magnin stores, which carry Tiel’s namesake fragrance exclusively. Last week, every store in the chain has sold out of the $300 Parfum Vicky Tiel. Inside the clear, crystal Tiel flacon, is a sculptured Venus statue, which is part of the stopper. The $115 eau de parfum spray resembles a Grecian urn encircled by Venus statues, topped by a shell-shaped stopper.”

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