Museum of Modern Perfume
The great fragrances of today can be easily found at perfume counters and on the internet. But both great and lesser fragrances of yesterday are harder to find — but often very much worth finding.
In on online museum you can't smell the fragrances the way you could with tester bottles at a perfume counter. But you can see the bottles and the packaging, and you can study who created what — and what these creations looked like.
For more information on select fragrances, visit our Museum Bookstore.
Perfume Bottles
California Perfume Company
(Renamed "Avon")
(Renamed "Avon")
- Old Colgate Perfume Bottle (c. 1866-1870)
- Old Colgate Perfume Bottle with Old Colgate Trademark (c. 1870)
- Cashmere Bouquet Toilet Water (1872)
- Small Cashmere Bouquet Perfume Bottle (c. 1910's)
- Colgate Bottle with Older Colgate Trademark (c. 1870)
- Imperial Lilac Toilet Water (c. 1910's)
- Colgate Perfume Sample Vials (c. 1910's, 1920's
- Caprice Toilet Water
- Les Fleurs Favorite (c.1922)
Estée Lauder
Grès
Hermés
Jean Philippe Fragrances
Mülhens
Weil
Perfumers
- Henri Alméras (1892-1965)
- Ernest Beaux (1881-1961)
- Robert Bienaimé (1876-1960)
- Jean Carles (1892-1966)
- Germaine Cellier (1909-1976)
- Philippe Chuit (1866-1939)
- François Coty (1874-1934)
- Ernest Daltroff (1867-1947)
- Marie-Therese de Laire
- Claude Fraysse
- André Fraysse (1902-1976)
- Henri Giboulet (1911-1966)
- Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain (d. 1864)
- Aimé Guerlain (1834-1910)
Perfume Marketers
- Elizabeth Arden
- Avon
- Bienaimé
- Bourjois
- Brocard
- Bruno Court
- Bush Boake Allen
- California Perfume Company
- Caron
- Carven
- Chanel
- Chiris
- Christian Dior
- Colgate
- Corday
- Coty
- Crown Perfumery Company
- Daggett and Ramsdell
- de Laire
- Dodge & Olcott
- D'Orsay
- Elizabeth Arden
- Fragonard
- Fritzsche Brothers
- Guerlain
- Harriet Hubbard Ayer
- Helena Rubinstein
- Houbigant
- Richard Hudnut
- Hughes Guerlain
- IFF
- Jean Patou
- Lancôme
- Lanvin
- L.T. Piver
- Lucien Lelong
- R.H. Macy & Co.
- Max Factor
- McLean
- Molinard
- Myrurgia
- Nina Ricci
- A.M. Ostroumov
- Picot Laboratories
- Pierre Balmain
- Prince Matchabelli
- Rallet
- Rigaud
- Parfums Rochas
- Parfums de Rosine
- Park & Tilford
- Robert Piguet
- Roure Bertrand Fils
- Roger & Gallet
- Mario Valentino
- Vigny
- J.R. Watkins Medical Co.
- Alfred Wright
Atomizers
Rexall
Philip Goutell
Lightyears, Inc.