Vintage Decants for Sale: Sniff Some Perfume History!

Curious what a vintage animalic perfume like Primitif (with civet and musk) smells like? Want to try Coty's classic Emeraude? How about My Sin, an unladylike floral or a gorgeous tobacco/leather like Lanvin's Rumeur?

Well, now that I'm ready to unload some of my vintage perfume, you can find out! I'm going to sell 1 ml. decants of some extra perfume I have, at $6 - $10 a ml, minimum 2 ml. an order. I haven't seen a lot of the perfumes below sold anywhere in decant form, so this would be a cheaper way to try out some classics without paying for a whole bottle. I've written about most of these. The ones I haven't (White Shoulders, Sirocco and Tweed you can read about on Basenotes, etc.) Prétexte is a gorgeous floral/tobacco/leather, sweeter than Rumeur. These are all true vintages:

 

1. Bal à Versailles EDC by Jean Desprez - $6
2. Moon Drops by Revlon - $7
3. Chypre de Coty (40s) - $10 (SOLD OUT)
4. Paloma Picasso Mon Parfum (in original white/gold bottle) - $9 (SOLD OUT)
5. Blue Carnation by Roger & Gallet (SOLD OUT)
6. Femme EDT by Rochas EDT - $6
7. Bat Sheba EDT by Judith Muller - $8 SOLD OUT
8. Toujours Moi EDT by Corday EDT - $6
9. Emeraude EDT by Coty EDT - $6
10. Scherrer 1 EDT - $6
11. My Sin Extrait  by Lanvin - $8
12. My Sin EDP by Lanvin EDP - $7
13. Rumeur EDP by Lanvin EDP - $7
14. Prétexte EDP by Lanvin EDP  - $8
15. Arpège Extrait by Lanvin - $8
16. Sirocco by Lucien Lelong - $9
17. Primitif EDP by Max Factor - $7
18. Intimate EDC by Revlon - $7
19. Flambeau EDC by Fabergé - $6
20. Fleeting Moment EDT by Nina Ricci (Germaine Cellier composed) - $8 (SOLD OUT)
21. Tigress EDC by Fabergé - $6
22. Woodhue EDC by Fabergé - $6
23. Aphrodesia EDC bt Fabergé - $6
24. Muguet des Bois EDT by Coty - $6
25. Inouï by Shiseido EDP - $8
26. Weil de Weil - $6
27. Jean Nate EDC by Charles of the Ritz - $6
28. White Shoulders by Evyan - $6
29. Ombre Rose by Broussard - $6
30. Aviance by Prince Matchabelli - $6
31. Anne Klein II - $7
32. Youth Dew Parfum and/or Bath Oil - $6  - (SOLD OUT)
33. Tweed by Lenthéric (40s) - $6
34. Ivoire de Balmain - 6
35. Y by Yves Saint Laurent - 6
36. Vent Vert by Pierre Balmain - $10 (Germaine Cellier, composer)
37. Diorella by Dior - $9 
38. L'Origan by Coty (30s or 40s) - $9

 

If there's anything not listed here you know I've written about and are curious to try, please ask me about it. I may have enough to spare.

I'll charge $2.50 per order/US Postal to ship them. $5 per order outside of US. (I had to change it from $4. Sorry!) I'm going to decant with sterile, disposable plastic pipettes, and when I have to decant using my metal funnel, it will be washed and thoroughly dried between use. I will pack carefully in bubble wrap, etc.

Please pay me via PayPal first, and if you're in the States, you'll probably get it within a week. Overseas will take probably two weeks.

Don't hesitate to ask any questions! -- Barbara

[email protected]

Comments

[brigitte]

Thank you,Barbara, for this great opportunity! There are so many vintages that I am sure many of us would like to revisit or try for the first time and this is a fun and affordable way to do it!

[Perfumaniac]

Thanks, brigitte! I just hope they get to people intact!

[Isis]

How nice you are! There are several I'm interested in. How do you want to know which ones? In the message form on Paypal!

[Perfumaniac]

Hi Isis,

Glad you're interested! Please email me first with the list you want (along your address to) : [email protected]. I will send you a total plus my PayPal account, and after the payment's posted I'll get all your stuff together and send it to you!

Thanks for your interest. --Barbara

[Elisabeta]

I just recently discovered your blog and have found it to be both funny and interesting. Oh... to long for those scents that are forever lost in time. A favorite of mine was Weil's Secret of Venus Zibeline. I know one can perhaps find it on ebay, or if lucky, at an estate sale-- but I don't do those, and I've never gone on ebay, so I'm kind of at a disadvantage there. And I'm not made of money. I wonder if someone like Thierry Mugler or Hermes would consider purchasing that scent and then try to reproduce it somehow. Poor Weil... If only they could bring it back. You'ld think the family would be happy to see it resurface... if only for a time.

[julie]

Elisabeta, count me as another Weil fan. They are—or were—the most underrated house. The Weil name is now owned by Aroli; I too would love a revival of the originals, however short-lived.

[julie]

Hi, Barbara, they arrived! A chance to revisit my youth with Intimate and the Fabergés, as well as explore the new-to-me with Bal a Versailles, Bat Sheba, and Coty Chypre. So far, I've tried on the Intimate: in two words, urinous floral, and so as not to scare anyone away, it's wonderful!

[Perfumaniac]

Yay, Julie. Glad you got them. You chose well!

[Teri Plymesser]

i am trying to buy my longtime scent which is Skin by Bonne Bell. do they still make it?

[Laura]

Hi, can you get Rose pierre cardin? Victoria victoria's secret?
I hope you have an idea of how to get thoseones!!
Thanks a lot
Laura

[RE. Digby]

I am interested in the original "skin" Musk by Bonne bell. and in Tweed.
Thanks,
RE.