Perfume Bottles

OTHER PERFUME SPECIALTIES Testers 47beauty products, such as soap, lotion or bathpowder. Beware of sets composed of one ormore companies’ scents, which have nocorresponding full-sized bottles since therewas a Midwestern company that madehundreds of different sets with severaldifferent company names, using stockbottles with some generic scents.2.36” Heaven Sent by Helena Rubenstein inform of a frosted angel with metal cap,empty, c1941 $40-60Miniature boxed sets come in severaldifferent versions. There are the sets thatwere designed so that you could test severalof a single company’s scents. There weresets composed of several differentcompanies’ scents. These are hard to price,since the miniature bottles are often onlydifferent by one or two from another set,and it is hard to know which miniaturesaffect the price of the set. Other box setsinclude miniature perfumes with otherTesters“Tester” is a term that has come tomean any small (usually one-eighth ounceor less) sample bottle with a label and a longdauber to apply the scent. The most highlyprized testers come as sets from a singlecompany and include many of its scents, andare either boxed for sale or sitting on adisplay base for use at perfume counters. Ofcourse, testers can also be modern spraybottles used at perfume counters to test newscents.Men’s ScentsMen’s scent bottles are not nearly ascollectible as women’s, but there are manyexceptions, especially for figural bottles,such as the large military figures made forCanoe and Royal Leather.1.5” Set of 4 Marquay scents, mint in boxreplica minis with glass stoppers and individualvelvet pouches c1950s $1252.4” Set of 6 by Rose Valois, mint in box hatmanikins wearing different hats (Rose Valoiswas a haute couture hat designer), c1950$1000-110015” Canoe by Dana, in giant ceramic bottle inthe form of a French sailor, full, signed Danac1946 $75-100