Collectible perfumes
COLLECTIBLE PERFUMES AND COLOGNES.
Collectible (Vintage) Perfumes for the Old to remember, and for the Young to discover, learn about, and enjoy!
All the perfumes (EDC, EDT, EDP, PDT, PARFUM) are in excellent condition because we have kept them all these fifty (50) years like babies (small children)—and you know what that means.
Good communication makes for excellent transactions, in other words:
What you see in the photos is exactly the product you will receive.
Many people ask us whether the products will still be okay after many decades, and whether they may have deteriorated.
Read a message sent to us by a designer at a major cosmetics house:
We are thrilled to see the old soaps and packaging. This line was launched 50 years ago, so we don't have any samples ourselves. We were therefore surprised to see that you had so many, and in such good condition.
I brought the soaps into the office this morning and showed them to the company’s founder (who is now 83), and he was delighted to see them. He started the company in 1975, and these soaps were part of the first line it produced, which remained in production for several years.
Having products dating from that era in such good condition is incredible. We didn’t have samples of these products ourselves, and this allows us to scan the packaging and preserve the designs in our archive forever.
So thank you for all your help. We truly appreciate everything you have done.
Perfume is what remains when everything else passes.
To browse our online store more easily and enjoyably, click on (BRANDS) at the top left, choose what you like from among two hundred and twelve (212) companies so far—and counting.
We would like to inform you that none of our perfumed products are parallel imports or gray-market goods*, unlike most perfumed products on the market.
Aftershaves (After-Shaves in English, Après-Rasage in French) are so intense and powerful that they can easily rival today’s Eau de Toilettes. Buy them while they’re still available—they’re incredible and less expensive.
Our perfumes and colognes are not simply consumer products.
They are true works of art.
They are unique, irreplaceable little masterpieces.
Our perfumes should be used sparingly, like a collection of precious objects, not for everyday wear.
Our products are very few—extremely limited in quantity.
So far, we are unique in stating the production date for each perfume box, with 99.9% accuracy.
In reality, the factory production date is much earlier than the date we state.
* Parallel imports and parallel goods (gray-market goods) are products made by a foreign manufacturer bearing that manufacturer’s trademark, which are purchased abroad and imported into a country by parties other than the manufacturer.
Why Vintage Perfumes?
In the late 1990s, international conglomerates and detergent companies gradually began replacing essential oils with synthetic (chemical) ingredients.
As a result, the market was flooded with many inexpensive products.
Why are there so few remarkable, outstanding perfumes today?
There are many reasons; here are a few, in our opinion.
Family-owned perfume houses closed, e.g. Patou.
The collaboration between IFRA and chemical manufacturers.
Small family businesses and local enterprises are no longer around.
There is no complete control over production from start to finish.
A lack of top-quality materials at every stage—from boxes, leaflets and bottles to the contents.
There are no iconic perfumers anymore.
The International Fragrance Association (IFRA), with its continuous restrictions.
So-called globalization, with economic conditions continually worsening and people spending less on perfumes.
The passion is gone; exceptional elegance and taste are no longer there.
As a result, the market was flooded with inexpensive products in every respect.
Why Vintage Perfumes?
Above all, the extraction of fragrance from flowers ( enfleurage) is no longer used for flowers such as jasmine, stephanotis, violet, iris, honeysuckle, tuberose (Agave amica) and Reseda odorata.
Most animal-derived scents used today are made from synthetic (chemical) ingredients.
Because of IFRA, perfumers today cannot use oakmoss, castoreum and many other notes, with the result that the scent of the very same perfume has changed completely.
VINTAGE PERFUMES
Buy them to relive old memories.
Buy them to smell authentic animal scents that can no longer be used.
Perfumes are part of history, a reflection of culture and knowledge.
If you don’t buy them, you’ll never smell these heavenly perfumes.
Wear them very, very sparingly as personal treasures; they will enchant your senses—enjoy this unique experience.
Perfumes are not meat, fish or cheese, and they do not have an expiration date.
Perfumes with a higher concentration of essential oils have a much longer shelf life.
In discussions with colleagues (Kapodistrian University: 1969–1972) and professors in every sense of the word—Kritikos, Tsatsas and Katogas—in 2020, when asked whether perfumes go bad, I laughed and replied, “Take back the degrees you gave them!”Essential oils contain no fatty acids, so they are not as prone to rancidity as ordinary oils.
For example, Tutankhamun’s tomb: solid perfume remained unchanged after thousands of years.
ENEMIES OF PERFUME
- HEAT (TEMPERATURE)
- SUNLIGHT
- OXYGEN (AIR)
- HUMIDITY
A little information:
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Parfum or Extrait
This is the highest fragrance concentration: 25%–40% essential oils, high-quality alcohol and a minimal amount of water.
The most expensive type of perfume.
Usually lasts 7–24 hours on the skin.
Today, producing a Parfum version is almost impossible because of the cost.
An inviolable rule is that Parfums / Extraits must not be opened.
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Esprit de Parfum
Concentration: 15%–30% essential oils.
Usually lasts 7–20 hours on the skin.
Today, producing an Esprit de Parfum version is almost impossible because of the cost.
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Parfum de Toilettes (PDT) - Eau de Parfum (EDP)
Concentration: 15%–25% essential oils.
Parfum de Toilettes (PDT) usually lasts 6–15 hours on the skin.
Popular in the 1980s, and produced by houses such as Caron, Carven, Guerlain, Le Galion, Nina Ricci, Rochas, Weil, etc.
Today, producing a Parfum de Toilettes (PDT) version is almost impossible because of the cost.
Eau de Parfum (EDP) is the successor to Parfum de Toilette, with slightly less essential oil.
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Eau de Toilette (EDT)
Concentration: 5%–15% essential oils.
Usually lasts 3–5 hours on the skin.
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Eau de Cologne
Concentration: 3%–8% essential oils.
Usually lasts 2 hours on the skin.
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Eau fraiche
Concentration: 1%–3% essential oils.
Diluted with water instead of alcohol, it can be used in the sun and at the beach.
For example, in the 1980s PHAS launched Eau Essentielle, an excellent fragranced lotion for the face and body.
These concentration ranges, from 1 to 6, apply only to vintage perfumes and naturally varied according to the manufacturers’ formulations.
A woman who wears the wrong perfume has no future.
So said
Coco Chanel