Bottle of vintage Femme with the gold cap showing it is from before the 1989 formula change by Olivier Cresp. The bottle has crimson red juice and rests on a table in front of pink orchid blooms.

The original Femme debuted in 1944, was from the legendary Edmond Roudnitska, & had civet, not cumin. The tiny, costly extraits had lace-covered packaging.

Here's a late 1970s PdT that is to DIE FOR! Note the gold cap difference. eBay, circa 2019, $52 for 100 ml. HUGE sillage. #VforVivid #Fragrance

A large bottle of vintage Femme Eau de Parfum, cumin 2nd version, next to a significantly smaller tiny bottle of the vintage extrait version.

Vintage Femme, the post-1989 Olivier Cresp cumin version w/ a black cap: A gloriously skanky *unisex* chypre (& hybrid leather oriental) that was the inspiration for modern cult hits, Amouage Jubilation XXV/25 & Papillon's Salomé.

Superb creamy sandalwood base w/ real Mysore! #VforVivid #Fragrance

Photo of a tall rectangular bottle of Jolie Madame, a vintage 1960s EdT fragrance, surrounded by yellow roses and white lilies. It stands atop its box which is positioned to show: "Parfums Pierre Balmain Paris"

More #VforVivid #fragrance jewels, this time w Balmain's underappreciated vintage Jolie Madame. Created by the legendary Germaine Cellier, it's an exquisite, tender chypre, then animalic floral leather, then suede floral. Chopin, not Wagner. #Perfume

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A row of different perfume bottles, set against a colourful floral backdrop of roses. The bottles are in different shapes and consist of different fragrance concentrations from many different decades, but they're all highly prized, collector item vintage bottles of Guerlain's Shalimar perfume.

#VforVivid: a few of my vintage Shalimars, each in different concentrations & diff. #Guerlain formulas, spanning across diff. decades from a late 1930s/40s extrait I still wear to a late '80s EdP & awful 90s one. ('90s/post-90s = olfactory garbage, imo.) #Fragrance #Perfume #Photography #scent