April 16, 2024
1917 Coty Chypre Perfume Half-Full Glass Vial - Maltese Falcon's Joel Cairo
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Flaconette for Coty Chypre. It comes in a tin tube and both the glass vial and tube had the same label; the label on the tin tube is very worn, but with a magnifying glass, you can see that it says the same thing as the label on the vial. The vial or bottle is a "resting" bottle with a midnight blue glass stopper and long glass dauber which reaches to the bottom of the vial. I can not easily remove the stopper and don't want to break it. Bottle measures 3 1/4" long, including the blue stopper. It is from an estate. Chypre by Coty is the first chypre fragrance created by Francois Coty in 1917. Chypre is the name of the island Cyprus in French, where the goddess of beauty and love, Venus, was born. The term chypre is French for Cyprus , and goes back to François Coty who created in 1917 a perfume of the same name from fragrance materials that came predominantly from Mediterranean countries. Coty's ‘ Chypre ’ became the most typical representative of a whole family of related fragrances, albeit perfumes of similar style had already been created throughout the 19th century. [2] The chypre concept is characterized by the contrast between the fresh citrus accord and the woody-oak-moss fond; often patchouli is considered an indispensable element as well. [3] Other main fragrance families besides chypres are fougères , orientals, gourmands,
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