Penhaligon's Portraits "Heartless Helen" cockatoo perfume

Link: https://www.penhaligons.com/heartless-helen/

Heinrich Hoffmann Parrot Perfume

Heinrich Hoffmann (1875-1939) was one of the foremost designers of Czech perfume bottles and other glass in the early 20th century, and came from a long line of glass producers. Hoffman, and later his son-in-law, greatly influenced the bohemian glass industry with their new ideas, designs and methods.

Heinrich Hoffmann was prominent among glass makers at the luxury level of vanity glass production. He and colleague Henry Günther Schlevogt (1904-1984) manufactured from their own designs, and those of famed contemporary artists. Hoffmann´s reputation as the specialist for articles made of jet black crystal was established in Paris just prior to the time of Lalique´s venture into glass.

Hoffmann´s vanity pieces followed the Art Deco ethic in shape and subject, but echoed an Art Nouveau stylization late into the 1920s. Production was handled by various Czech contract factories and cottage finishers, with jeweled bronze mounting completed in Austria, and sales transacted in Paris.

Source: http://www.czechgallery.com/perfume_bottles/history.html
 

1920s perfume bottle in black crystal, clear stopper cut as a parrot, enamel and jeweled metalwork, glass feet.

 

Jean Paul Gaultier Parrot Perfume (Summer 2009)

In the CLASSIQUE 3.3 oz Alcohol-Free Summer Fragrance, rose flirts with orange blossom, clementine and Sicilian lemon. A floral bouquet of Arabian jasmine, ylang-ylang, lily of the valley and white iris blooms in the middle notes. The heady base notes feature an accord of vanilla absolute, fresh musk and amber.

 The LE MALE 4.2 oz Stimulating Body Spray is enriched with mint, ginseng and ginger water. Refreshing agents create an icy effect – a cocktail of pure energy.

Roger & Gallet 1924 "Le Jade" Parrot parfume

Perfume bottles -coveted by scent users and glass collectors since ancient Egypt - became a collectible available to most everyone in the 20th century. The change occurred in 1907 when Francois Coty, the Paris perfume producer, persuaded his friend Rene Lalique, the designer, to devise a decorative bottle in which Coty's perfumes would be sold.

Until Coty and Lalique changed the course of the perfume business, bottles were purchased separately and refilled as needed. Coty's innovative approach to packaging transformed these scent containers into disposables and made virtually obsolete the tiny funnels women once used to refill their perfume bottles. The appeal of these glass containers also gave the fragrance industry more to sell than scent.

Lalique's first designs for Coty were squared columnar vessels, as spare as chemists' laboratory containers in form, to which he added some less familiar molded-glass embellishments - nude women and flowers. Over the next 35 years until his death in 1945, Lalique produced hundreds of such designs in a stunning variety of forms and decorations - perfume bottles that other designers frequently imitated but could rarely match in imagination and sophistication. Once Lalique began working in glass, designing for Coty, he conceived bottles for many of his competitors - Worth, Lucien LeLong, Roger et Gallet, Guerlain, Molinard and D'Orsay. He also designed perfume bottles for those women who preferred to buy empty vessels and refill them as needed, bottles that were sold worldwide along with his vases, clocks, lamps and decorative sculptures.

Lalique borrowed freely from historical examples, usually improving on the work he adapted. The jade-like glass bottle he designed in 1924 for ''Le Jade'' by Roger et Gallet is a glorious imitation of a 19th-century Chinese snuff bottle.

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Roger & Gallet 1924 Le Jade

René Lalique "Le Jade" perfume bottle.

"Le Jade" perfume bottle for Roger et Gallet, in jade green glass with gray patina.

"Le Jade" by Roger & Gallet. Paper graphics R. Lalique.

Flacon based on a model created by R. Lalique for the R & G perfume "Persana".