" ....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."
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.