Routes
It is not easy to think that the world of perfume and its containers, so pleasant and light, could be somehow linked to something ...
Souvenir is a French word that has been used internationally for many years. It is said that a souvenir has meaning only for the p...
When we talk about a small group of objects for personal use we can use different words like necessaire, set, compendium, kit, etc...
“SILVER OVERLAY” means an electrolyte coating of silver on a non-conductive surface, such as porcelain or glass.
antique scent bottles
My collection
I started my collection of scent bottles more than forty years ago. Made of different materials over a long period from antiquity to 1940, they now comprise a collection of over 1200 pieces produced mostly in Europe, but not only. All containers are no taller than 9 cm (3 inches).
Scent-jar in closed pomander form, in silver with chased floral ornaments. It opens in four parts: the bottom contains a sponge th...
Cut crystal scent bottle with white ceramic paste inlays, with a double portrait of Napoleon and his second wife Marie Louise, lat...
Ivory bottle with rich carved decoration of foliage and acorns, partially eroded by time. On the front the profile of a man with a...
Blue glass flat-round scent bottle enclosed in a gilded silver openwork cage showing on the front Saint Ulrich (identified by the ...