What Vintage Perfume Am I Describing?

[Chinajan]

I was talking to an elderly acquaintance some time ago and she was reminiscing about her favourite perfume as a teen. This would have been around 1940s/1950s and I believe she said her mother had some too, so probably from earlier than that.

I remembered that a relative of mine had the bottle she described and I had thought it was Evening in Paris/Soir de Paris, but having researched that none of the vintage bottles are 'it'.

It was a tiny bottle, dark blue I think, circular and squat, with a very distinctive tall, pointed, ridged gold screw on lid. The lid was taller than the actual bottle.

Any ideas?

[Chinajan]

Yes, I was aware that formulations change over time - rather sneaky of the manufacturers I've always thought - but I wasn't aware that they make special editions for jetsetters. What about Mrs Mopps who also travel internationally? Quite a conundrum for the marketer.

I didn't know that about Darwen! That nugget has now been filed away mentally in the same slot as Slaithwaite.

[jennyjoan]

when I first saw this post - I remembered my lovely aunt using I think it was
called Coty L'aimant. She loved it.