A beautifully shot 5 minute tour through the life of François Coty, including some great vintage-perfume-bottle porn. For the bigger picture, read Perfume and Politics in the May 3, 1930 New Yorker.
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Hi from Toronto, I sure hope you folks earn some decent money for your effort in keeping us appraised. I really appreciate your format, humour, and all that goes into this vein. cheers, sherry
So glad you like it! And depends on your definition of “decent” 😉
Can you imagine the smell in that rose filled room? And those Lalique bottles? Oh my! I have spent part of the week reading the Stamelman perfume book and came across the references to honeysuckle, which I found so interesting. Thanks so much for posting this! Wish I could make a time travel trip to Grasse and Paris ( as a wealthy person).
Oh, that’s a great book! I can’t remember what it says about honeysuckle.
Makes me sad to think how the mighty have fallen. Those bottles were gorgeous.
Thanks, Robin, for posting this terrific video which I watched with the sound off. The music was too harsh to match the theme. As for Stamelman, the photos are gorgeous but I found the writing frustrating because it kept me going around in circles. It was as if he had a thesaurus on his knee and came up with synonyms for words in sentences he’d already written, and kept saying the same thing over and over again.
One of my favorite videos that has been posted on this site. Gorgeous!