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The Art of Perfume Ads: Anna Sui Live Your Dream

In honor of New York Fashion week, here’s a look at a perfume advertisement from Anna Sui, my favorite living designer. (Not to offend her by qualifying that statement with “living,” but I do love...

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The Art of Perfume Ads: Écusson by Jean d’Albert

One of my favorite beauty-fashion-fragrance blogs is The Non-Blonde; I read it every day. Gaia, the stylish and smart brunette behind the site, is always discerning and articulate in her product...

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The Art of Perfume Ads: Maxfield Parrish for Cashmere Bouquet and Djer-Kiss

When I saw this vintage magazine advertisement for Cashmere Bouquet (circa 1899-1900), I immediately knew that it had to be the work of artist Maxfield Parrish. The hyper-realism of the light and...

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The Art of Perfume Ads: Houbigant (1946)

The French fragrance house of Houbigant seems to have turned to the history of art even more than other houses of the mid-twentieth century. I’ve already written three posts about advertisements for...

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The Art of Perfume Ads: Fabergé Organdi (1973)

I don’t know much about Fabergé Organdi, except that it was available in the early 1970s and it seems to have been a line of body products—bubble bath, dusting powder, and body mist—rather than a...

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The Art of Perfume Ads: Worth Requête (1947)

Sometimes, a perfume advertisement’s sources of inspiration are reworked in ways that makes them feel like hidden messages waiting to be decoded. Other times, the source is identified right there on...

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The Art of Perfume Ads: Estee Lauder Modern Muse, Isaac Mizrahi Fabulous, and...

One of the major mainstream fragrance releases for autumn 2013 was Estée Lauder’s Modern Muse, with the tagline “Be An Inspiration” and an advertising campaign featuring the model Arizona Muse. In...

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The Art of Perfume Ads: An Ongoing Series…

I’ve been writing a series of posts on art historical references in perfume ads, past and present… you can read them all via this link, or under “Art and Perfume Advertising” in the Categories menu to...

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The Art of Perfume Ads: Saks Fifth Avenue Paradis

I love the big department stores of Midtown Manhattan; I started visiting them at a very young age, when my mother would bring me to see the holiday windows, and I still shop at some of the remaining...

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Josephine Baker, Arpege, and a Decorating Fantasy

In an age when the phrase “style icon” is used to describe virtually any actress or model who hires a professional stylist and receives loans of designer gowns for red-carpet events, it can be hard to...

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The Art of Perfume Ads: Jean Cocteau and Elizabeth Arden My Love (1950s)

Fragrance aficionados don’t give much recognition to Elizabeth Arden’s fragrance line these days, and I can’t really blame them (us)—the brand’s perfumes, and even their marketing, aren’t too...

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Silent Night

Image: Caron advertisement, 1961.

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The Art of Perfume Ads: A Modern Take on Bourjois Evening in Paris (1961)

I hope that your Christmas, if you were celebrating, was very Merry! In the spirit of opened gifts and fulfilled wishes, here is a Christmas advertisement for Bourjois Evening in Paris, dated 1961....

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Perfume-Themed “Magasin de Nouveautés” Trade Card

I came across this delightful piece of printed ephemera on the New York Public Library website. It was made by the lithography firm of L. Prang, and it probably dates to the 1880s. It’s a trade card,...

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Just for a laugh: Topps “My Sink” Wacky Packs Trading Card

Are you old enough to remember the Wacky Packs trading cards sold by Topps in the 1970s and 1980s? Did you own any? They were very popular at my grade school. Although I didn’t personally own any, I...

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The Art of Perfume Ads: Caron (1940)

I filed away this Caron advertisement from 1940 a while ago, not just because I liked it, but because I had a feeling that its imagery was borrowed from some earlier work of art. Yesterday, in a...

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Bergdorf Goodman (and Matisse): Vintage Advertisement, 1964

I’ve had this vintage magazine advertisement saved for a while. It’s a Bergdorf Goodman promotion for an “autumn afternoon dress” by Townley, available in Bergdorf’s “Country & Casual Shop” for...

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Art, Music, Perfume: Rasputina’s “Cabin Fever” Album Cover

I didn’t know anything about the band Rasputina until I walked into one of their live shows, thanks to my husband, who had bought tickets, guessing (correctly) that I would enjoy it. Rasputina’s...

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The Art of Perfume Advertising: Princess Isabelle (1980s) and Monet

This is such a perfectly summery perfume advertisement that I had to post it. I don’t know anything about Princesse Isabelle, or about this fragrance, other than that it seems to be a romantic floral...

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Just Because: Loterie National des Parfums, 1939

Loterie Nationale (National Lottery) poster designed by Edgard Derouet and Charles Lesacq, dated 1939. (This is pretty much how I feel when I buy a special new perfume or find a vintage perfume at an...

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