EditorialA strolling vendor of perfumery in the time of Louis XV, Paris, 18th century. Charlatans sold eau de Cologne as well as powders, elixirs, pills and opiates. Woodcut engraving by Gabry from Eugene Rimmel's The Book of Perfumes, London, Chapman and Hall,...
EditorialFrontispiece from a French perfumery book, Barbe's L'origine des parfums, showing the barbaric operation of pricking a musk deer to obtain its blood. Lithograph from Eugene Rimmel's Le Livre des Parfums, Paris, 1870.
EditorialEuropean flowers employed in perfumery: tuberose, jasmine, Parma violet, jonquil daffodil, rose, orange tree, needle bush and lavender. Chromolithograph from Eugene Rimmel's Le Livre des Parfums, Paris, 1870.
EditorialShopfront to Teissier's Perfumery, 51 rue de la Loi, Paris, circa 1800. Handcoloured lithograph from Hector-Martin Lefuel's "Boutiques Parisiennes du Premier Empire," (Parisian Stores of the First Empire), Paris, Albert Morance, 1925. The lithographs w...
EditorialShopfront of Monsieur Fargeon's perfumery to the Empress Josephine, Paris, circa 1800. Handcoloured lithograph from Hector-Martin Lefuel's "Boutiques Parisiennes du Premier Empire," (Parisian Stores of the First Empire), Paris, Albert Morance, 1925. Th...