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VINTAGE ORIGINAL 'SHOCKING DE SCHIAPARELLI' PARFUM BOTTLE IN DOME

SKU: EMB2011-041

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Description

This is a rare perfume bottle, as it actually has the dome intact and some of the original perfume left inside. We haven't seen another one yet that still had the dome or the tags still on the bottle.

ELSA SCHIAPARELLI (1890-1973)

Elsa Schiaparelli is one of the most famous, glamourous Italian fashion designers past, or present. Shiaparelli, the niece of the famous astronomer who discovered the canali of Mars, spent hours as a youth studying the heavens. She then studied philosophy at the University of Rome, during which she published a book of sensual poems that shocked her conservative family. She was then sent to a convent, only to leave when she went on a hunger strike at the age of 22. Elsa led a refined, privileged life provided by her parent's high social statues, but felt that this luxury was stifling her art so she removed her self from the comforts of wealth and moved to New York City. Soon after, she moved again to Paris, only to combine her love of art and design and become a celebrated surrealist couturier.

Along with Coco Chanel, her greatest rival, she is regarded as one of the most prominent figures in fashion between the two World Wars. Elsa became famous for producing several surrealist fashions including the Lobster Dress, Tears Dress, Shoe Hat all of which she collaborated with Salvador Dali, and was inspired by her contemporaries Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Cocteau, and Alberto Giacometti. Coco Chanel referred to Schiaparelli as "that Italian artist who makes clothes".

Along with her noted fashions, Schiaparelli introduced many famous perfumes, all of which she incorporated her love of Art, whether it was in the advertisements, packaging, or bottle design. Shocking was probably the most famous of all her perfumes. It is a heavy, sensual, bold and musky scent which could almost be described as a bold, scandalous scent.

ABOUT THIS PERFUME:

LAUNCHED: 1937

GENDER: FEMININE

PERFUMER: JEAN CARLES

BOTTLE DESIGNER: LÉONORE FINI

NOTES:

TOP NOTES: Bergamot, Alehydes, Tarragon

MIDDLE NOTES: Honey, Rose, Narcissus

BASE NOTES: Clove, Civet, Chypre Accord

We are selling this perfume for the collectibility in the bottle and design, and can not guarantee that the perfume liquid is still viable for wearing, as this is over 60 years old. We opened the stopper and it smells good to us, but does have the heavy "heodinistic" scent that made it famous in the Art Deco 1930's.

BE SURE AND VISIT OUR EPHEMERA SECTION TO VIEW ORIGINAL SCHIAPARELLI ADVERTISEMENTS FOR HER PERFUMES, DATING FROM THE 1930'S -1940'S.

SCHIAPARELLI'S OTHER PERFUMES:

Salut (1934)

Souci (1934)

Schiap (1934)

Shocking (1937)

Sleeping (1938)

Snuff - for men (1939)

Roi Soleil (1946)

Zut! (1948)

DIMENSIONS: Bottle is 3" H x 1¼"W, and with the dome total measurements are: 4" H x 1½ " in diameter.

PLEASE MAKE NOTE OF MEASUREMENTS. E-MAIL OR CALL US IF YOU HAVE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS ABOUT SIZE OR CONDITION.