Hi all,
I had a blast cleaning my Kadine - taking all the age-old grime from her shoulders and stopper. A gleaming beauty she is now, sparkling in all the crystal richness.
Sadly the paper sticker on the front is darkish ochre and the letters have worn by the gazillion times her owner must have taken this perfume flacon in her hands to apply some costly drops....
The bottle is nearly empty.
There is only a sort of a balmy residue, wich does smell, not scent.
There are some shadows of a resin scent, some coumarine, a tad of musky vanilla- but all this is so far away...
It is only a faint memory of what may have been a complex and richt perfume about 100 years ago.
And I can tell you - it IS a strange piece of time-travel to have this flacon in hands, imagine the time around 1911 with all it's political, cultural and fashion differences to today - and imagine the setting in which this bottle stood to wait for usage.
Here are two pictures of my treasure as some eye-candy - more of these and details you can see on my blog - see sig. line please, if you like.
I had a blast cleaning my Kadine - taking all the age-old grime from her shoulders and stopper. A gleaming beauty she is now, sparkling in all the crystal richness.
Sadly the paper sticker on the front is darkish ochre and the letters have worn by the gazillion times her owner must have taken this perfume flacon in her hands to apply some costly drops....
The bottle is nearly empty.
There is only a sort of a balmy residue, wich does smell, not scent.
There are some shadows of a resin scent, some coumarine, a tad of musky vanilla- but all this is so far away...
It is only a faint memory of what may have been a complex and richt perfume about 100 years ago.
And I can tell you - it IS a strange piece of time-travel to have this flacon in hands, imagine the time around 1911 with all it's political, cultural and fashion differences to today - and imagine the setting in which this bottle stood to wait for usage.
Here are two pictures of my treasure as some eye-candy - more of these and details you can see on my blog - see sig. line please, if you like.
