" ....you asked me how to put a date on old Patou perfumes,
and I'll teach you it....
but you shouldn't care about years and months,
because I worked at Patou, and I can assure you:
Jean Patou was the best.
All bottles produced were pieces of Art.
Top quality, the best materials, and the best perfumes.
Jean Patou was Art."
(In this post we will explain how to decode the different batch codes of Jean Patou perfumes, over the years.)
We never heard about a method for dating vintage Jean Patou perfumes. Actually it is quite a difficult task, because technicians used ingenious tricks to date perfumes (such as the "inverse" alphabet), so we have to thanks an old french-italian lady ("Signora Mimma", she is 83-years old now!), once employed at Patou, who revealed us the secrets of the batch-codes, and gave us a marvellous interview about "good old times" spent with Patou.
This (very) long article is divided in 4 parts:
- Batch codes revealed;
- Tutorial pics;
- Glimpses from an interview;
- Miscellaneous pics.
Follow us and learn why "Patou is not about dresses and perfumes; Patou is about Art."
Yours,
Melba, Roberta, Dahlia, Laura.
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