Note: Please understand that this website is not affiliated with the Elizabeth Arden company in any way, it is only a reference page for collectors and those who have enjoyed the Arden fragrances.
The goal of this website is to show the present owners of the Arden company how much we miss the discontinued classics and hopefully, if they see that there is enough interest and demand, they will bring back your favorite perfume!
Please leave a comment below (for example: of why you liked the perfume, describe the scent, time period or age you wore it, who gave it to you or what occasion, any specific memories), who knows, perhaps someone from the company might see it.
Friday, October 4, 2013
Friday, September 13, 2013
Ardena Hair Off Electra Eradicator c1953
From 1934-1953
photos from ebay seller samtenserpe
Monday, September 2, 2013
Secret de Babani by Babani c1920
Secret de Babani by Babani: launched in 1920.
Labels:
1920s,
arden,
babani,
bottle,
depinoix,
discontinued,
elizabeth arden,
flacon,
maurice babani,
parfum,
perfume,
rare
Sunday, September 1, 2013
Ambré by Elizabeth Arden c1925
Ambré by Elizabeth Arden: launched in 1925. Discontinued, date unknown. Still being sold in 1937.
Sketch, 1925:
The New Yorker, 1937:
Sketch, 1925:
"Bath salts: Allamanda, Jasmine, Rose Geranium, Russian Pine, Ambre. In handsome glass jars, 5/6, 10/6. In 16-lb. tin, 35/-,Compact cubes, 6 for 3/6."Woman's Home Companion, 1932:
"Elizabeth Arden's Ensembles for the bath: Powdered Bath Salts,exquisitely scented with Ambre, Allamanda, Jasmine, Rose Geranium or Russian Pine,$5."
The New Yorker, 1937:
Blue Grass, Jasmin, Ambre, Rose Geranium, Gardenia…$2.00, $3.50, $8.00. Le Reve, Night and Day…$2.50, $4.00, $9.00.”
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Cupid’s Breath by Elizabeth Arden c1924
Cupid’s Breath by Elizabeth Arden: launched in 1924. Although Arden was an American company, many of her early perfumes were manufactured in France, and this perfume was made in Paris.
Friday, August 30, 2013
Parfums par Noel Perfume Presentation c1940
"Parfums par Noel," a presentation set of "Cyclamen," "Night & Day," and "Blue Grass" for Elizabeth Arden, circa 1940, features blown glass bottles hung in net stockings. Ht. of bottle 3 1/2 in (8.8 cm). Photo by Rago Arts & Auction Center
Elizabeth Arden Pin Cushion Perfume Presentations
In the late 1930s and into the 1950s, Elizabeth Arden offered several different pin cushion themed perfume presentations. Sometimes the cushion itself was different, heart shaped one year, hat shaped in another, blue covered one year and pink the next. These are very rare as the perfume was often contained in tiny stoppered bottles on the end of a pin, simulating a hat pin from yesteryear. Other presentations included real pins that you could use as well as a small bottle of perfume attached to the cushion.
Tide of Advertising and Marketing, 1939:
The New Yorker, 1939:
Stage, 1939:
Dance, 1940:
Cue, 1950:
1940 Elizabeth Arden "Hatpin" perfume presentation, a miniature bust of felt and other hat trims, with glass perfume bottle hatpin. Ribbon label Elizabeth Arden. 6 1/2 in.
Photos by Perfume Bottles Auction (close up showing tiny hat pin perfume bottle)
Price realized: $700 in 2010.
"Take Elizabeth Arden...She's got a new "Perfume Pincushion", a flower and lace trimmed pale blue rayon satin sacheted pincushion that cries for a Victorian hat. In it are thrust pink, yellow, blue and mauve stoppered glass hatpins. Fasten your veil with one, stick one in your lapel, or pin your corsage with it."
1930s Elizabeth Arden “Perfume Pin-Ups” Blue Grass perfume bottle, clear glass, plastic screw-cap, label, box with sachet cushion and three hatpins. Bottle 2 in. Photos by Perfume Bottles Auction.
Price realized: $100 in 2012. Described in the original ad below.
"Elizabeth Arden, always highly imaginative where lovely femininity is concerned (pink is no discovery to her), offers Easter presents that are the height of delicate froufrou. A notable one is a blue satin-covered old-fashioned pincushion with four pins stuck in it."
Stage, 1939:
"Elizabeth Arden's little gadgets are always amusing and charming. Now it's four perfume pins on a blue satin, moss- fringed pin-cushion."
Dance, 1940:
"Elizabeth Arden has put four of her perfume pins around a rosette of posies in an old-fashioned pincushion made gay and young with a cerise satin top and an edge of starched frills. The perfume pins are glass bubbles of perfume."
Cue, 1950:
"There are, too, several beguiling perfume novelties: An artful red velvet, heart shaped pin cushion from Elizabeth Arden, with four pearl stickpins holding in place a bottle of "My Love." $6.50"
Poppye by Elizabeth Arden c1920
Poppye by Elizabeth Arden: launched in 1920.
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Ma Rue by Elizabeth Arden c1932
Ma Rue by Elizabeth Arden: launched in 1932. It's name means "My Street" in French.
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Monday, July 22, 2013
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Kohl
Elizabeth Arden introduced her version of the Arabian makeup staple Kohl in 1955. Women were always looking to the East for new and exciting looks in makeup and Arden knew just what they needed to make their eyes sparkle and delight. Kohl, is a soft cosmetic powder made up of many ingredients from powdered antimony to galena and lead. It has been used for thousands of years in the Middle Eastern, North African and even in parts of Asia such as India. The ancient Egyptians were the first to wear the eye cosmetic which they saw it as both protective and preventative. Protection from the evil eye and flies that would gather around the eyes and prevented the sun from glaring in the desert heat.
A 1955 ad for Elizabeth Arden's kohl reads:
A 1955 ad for Elizabeth Arden's kohl reads:
"Elizabeth Arden's now Oriental makeup. ORIENTAL KOHL. From the ancient East the lovely long eyed look of storied Arabia. Kohl is beauty, magic, refined for your use. Miss Nell G. of Elizabeth Arden Cosmetics will be at G. Fox and Company ... Thursday through Saturday to give instructions on now to use "Kohl."Kohl was still hot in 1963 as this ad attests:
“Pursuing the inclination women have to adopt masculine styles comes as manifesto from Elizabeth Arden stating that women who have seen Columbia’s exciting film “Lawrence of Arabia.”, are now asking to be made up to look like a Sheik. They seek to escape the blanched look of winter, in favor of a sun-warmed complexion tone, rather darker than one’s own skin, in order to get that sun-darkened desert look. This requires that the eyelashes be fringed in a darkish, smoky look with kohl, a soft powdery cosmetic similar to that which Cleopatra is said to have applied to lure her warrior lovers.”Kohl also was revived as the Elizabeth Taylor blockbuster film Cleopatra was just released as well and women cultivated the queen of the Nile's sensuous style.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)