Year: 1996 approx
Category: Misc
Influences: A bag decorated with corset-style lacing containing a tin of body cream and a perfumed soap. Only a guess at the year as the cream tin is the same as this Christmas set.
Size: 30ml body cream and a 30g perfumed soap
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Year: 1996
Category: Limited edition
Influences: Part of the Les Extraits de Collection, this version of the corset is green-grey and housed in a bell jar with a copper coloured base.
Size: 30ml parfum
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The JPG Collector
Year: 1996 (could possible be 1998)
Category: Le Male
Influences: A travel set in a tin with two tubes and a mini bottle inside. Emblazoned with a double image of the Le Male model arm-wrestling (in this case it’s David Fumero).
Size 30ml EDT Le Male, 30ml shave gel, 30ml shampoo
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Since my 1996 metal verdigris perfume bottle became damaged I’ve been looking for a replacement and so far this is the best I’ve got.
It’s a display set featuring two factice bottles and a faux perfume cuff.
And here it is from the back, designed presumably so it can sit in a window and be viewed from two sides:
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The JPG Collector
1996 Valentine’s Day Wedding Bell miniatures
Year: 1996
Category: Valentine’s Day
Influences: The first of the Valentine’s domes that ran for three years, this is a plain Perspex dome of duo miniatures within a green/brown paper gift bag. Dubbed the mini-cloche de mariée, which implies the fragrances getting married.
Size 2 x 3.5ml, one Classique parfum, one Le Male
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First, forgive the condition of this one, it’s had a rough life…
1996 purse spray set
Year: 1996
Category: Mother’s Day edition
Influences: A black rubber purse spray holder in the shape of a torso with a purse spray and three refills. This set spawned another similar purse spray set a few years later in 1998.
Size: 4 x 10ml EDT
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1996 Happy Season’s Greetings coffret
Year: 1996
Category: Christmas
Influences: A Christmas set with a hinged lid. Inside is a drop-down stage, featuring a teddy bear in a kilt and Breton stripe top surrounded by Classique bottles.
And a couple more shots…
1996 Season’s Greetings coffret, contents
Size: 50ml EDT, 30ml body cream and a 30g perfumed soap
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Solid perfume cuff
Year: 1996
Category: Mother’s Day
Influences: This is twist on the tin can theme of the perfume. Sits on a red velvet base and the front flips open to reveal the solid perfume inside.
Size: Solid perfume
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