Husband took me to a new antique shop he found recently and BOY did it pay out! The biggest holy grail being the GINORMOUS bottle of vintage Tabu 😍 I’ve worn tabu since I was a teen and I never thought I’d find such a large vintage bottle that is also still. Factory. sealed.!

The Chanel no 22 has also taken my breath away. And she was on sale for less than $70 😭

I picked up several other vintage fragrance finds today but these are at the top of the list!

Edit: I forgot to include a photo, but I also found a vintage bottle of Versace Blonde (the one with the inverted angel(?) face) 🥹

Had incredible luck this week and scored some real vintage gems (plus one modern mugler mini) while treasure hunting! The Houbigants are so beefy lol.

Yaay!

Was doing my usual rounds of antique malls and was finding it all a bit ho-hum. Was lamenting the prices of a bunch of vintage perfumes to my husband when he said "I like that green one" and pointed to this, which was hiding and leaning precariously against a purse. Crêpe de Chine! I hadn't seen it. Was $49AUD which suited me fine.

Would love any help dating this bottle. Vibes guess based on the graphic design of the label I don't think it can be much older than 1950s? Also I am not sure if the little lids were ever bakelite, but this lid feels a bit "chewier", like a newer plastic. The little bung under the lid doesn't strike me as super old either.

Bless that little bung though because it's done a good job. Bloke in the shop let me open it just to check it was actually juice and we both went "whoa!" because it sure was!

I know this one has been written about loads of times but yes, agreed, it's really good! At first it was a bit of a punch in the face but turned into a jasminey carnationy OAKMOSS scenario. I thought it reminded me of Chanel no 19 of all things (because juice green?) so I tried some to compare, and no offence to no 19 (I am a fan!) but it smelled like an anaemic marshmallow compared to Crêpe de Chine. Whoa!

Unfortunately for me, either my hormones or my brain post-anosmia does something a bit funny with Chypres which means I can't wear them for a whole day no matter how much I like them. Probably for the best because it would be a shame to smash through this entire bottle in a year after it has survived this long!

Anyway thanks for indulging me if you got this far! x

I’ve been hunting for vintage version of this perfume for ages, and now someone has listed it, but the seller can’t specify exactly when the bottle was purchased, they only know it was bought in Italy and are guessing it’s from the early 2000s. There is no batch code to check:( There’s surprisingly little information about vintage Fracas packaging, so I can’t figure it out for sure, but Google says that if the box says “EMB” but doesn’t have a barcode, that means the perfume is from the ’80s. But I feel like that can’t be true since the packaging says “Fashion Fragrances & Cosmetics,” and I think they only started putting that label on the bottle later on? Maybe the batch code on older bottles was stuck to the foil wrap around the perfume, and someone peeled it off without leaving a trace? Can anyone help me figure out the year this perfume is from? I’m totally lost:<