The perfume was housed in a tall, slender column of clear crystal adorned with fluted lines delicately picked out in gold enamel, giving the bottle a refined architectural appearance. A molded floral glass stopper softened the design with a touch of femininity and grace. In 1921, the fragrance was renamed Douce Chose (pronounced dooss shozh), meaning "Sweet Thing" or "Sweet Little Thing," a title that shifted the perfume's image from one of playful betrayal to one of affection and tenderness. The change reflected a more romantic and approachable marketing direction while preserving the fragrance itself, a practice that was not uncommon among perfume houses seeking to adapt their products to evolving consumer tastes and postwar sensibilities.
Dry Goods Economist - Volume 76, 1922:
"Appealingly different from other designs is this perfume bottle, known as the Column of Gold. It contains a Vigny odor, called Infidel. "
Eloa:
Introduced in 1921, Eloa was an ambery fragrance created by Les Parfums de Vigny and named in honor of Éloa, the heroine of an epic mystical poem written by the French Romantic poet Alfred de Vigny, from whom the Vigny perfume house derived its name. Éloa (pronounced ay-lo-ah) is a French literary name invented by de Vigny for his 1824 poem Éloa, ou la sœur des anges ("Éloa, or the Sister of the Angels"). In the poem, Éloa is a beautiful angel born from a tear shed by Christ, symbolizing purity, compassion, and innocent love. Drawn by pity and curiosity, she attempts to redeem Lucifer but ultimately falls victim to his seductive influence, making the story a tragic meditation on innocence, temptation, and sacrifice. By choosing this name, Vigny evoked an atmosphere of celestial beauty, mystery, and romantic melancholy that would have resonated strongly with the artistic and literary sensibilities of the era. The fragrance itself was presented in a striking gold and black bottle, a color combination that mirrored the duality of the poem's themes—light and darkness, purity and temptation—while lending the perfume an air of luxury, drama, and sophistication befitting one of the house's most literary creations.

Fleur Celeste:
Introduced in 1922, Fleur Céleste (pronounced flur say-lest), meaning “Flower of Heaven” in French, was a narcissus-centered floral fragrance from Les Parfums de Vigny that had previously been marketed as Le Narcisse de France. The new name emphasized an ethereal, heavenly character, suggesting a bloom of exceptional beauty and purity. Inspired by this celestial theme, Vigny commissioned Baccarat to create an elegant bottle that reflected the perfume’s floral identity. The larger two-ounce crystal flacon was crowned with a remarkable gilded glass stopper sculpted in the form of a flower head, transforming the bottle into a decorative objet d’art as well as a perfume container. To further enhance its luxurious presentation, the bottle was housed in a box designed to imitate richly polished Chinese lacquer, a fashionable decorative style that evoked exotic sophistication and refined taste during the 1920s.
Smaller versions of the perfume were fitted with frosted glass stoppers, offering a simpler yet equally graceful interpretation of the design. Together, the exquisite Baccarat crystal, floral ornamentation, and luxurious packaging perfectly embodied Vigny’s reputation for combining fine perfumery with exceptional artistry and presentation.


Le Golliwogg:
Introduced in 1919, Le Golliwogg was one of the most recognizable and commercially successful fragrances produced by Les Parfums de Vigny. Created by Jacques Vogel and subtitled "The Perfume of Romance," it was described as an exotic spicy floral amber fragrance that reflected the fascination with fantasy, travel, and exoticism that characterized much of the decorative arts during the early twentieth century.
The perfume took its name from the "Golliwogg," a fictional character that originated in children's books by British author and illustrator Florence Kate Upton in the late nineteenth century. The character was depicted as a rag doll with dark skin, exaggerated facial features, and unruly hair. While the figure was originally intended as a whimsical toy character, it later became associated with racial stereotypes and is now widely regarded as offensive. In 1919, however, such imagery was commonly used in advertising and commercial art, and Vigny adopted the character as the mascot for one of its most famous fragrance lines. The perfume's visual identity was developed by Michel de Brunhoff, who designed both the distinctive figural bottles and accompanying graphics, creating one of the most memorable presentations in perfume history.
The Le Golliwogg bottles are highly sought after by collectors today. Many were manufactured by Baccarat and featured a charming figural design topped with a black glass stopper molded as Golliwogg's face, complete with real seal fur used to represent his hair. The earliest examples from 1919 were produced in frosted glass, while later versions from the 1920s were made in clear glass. The bottles were issued in five sizes, ranging from an impressive 6¾ inches tall to miniature examples measuring just 2¾ inches. Particularly prized are the rare original versions featuring the detailed molded facial stopper and fur hair intact. Beyond the perfume bottles themselves, Vigny expanded the Golliwogg theme into an entire luxury fragrance line that included fanciful powder boxes emblazoned with the character's head, lotion bottles, tester and sample flacons, and exceptionally rare bronze-and-enamel perfume pins fitted with tiny grates designed to hold perfume-soaked cotton, allowing the wearer to carry the fragrance throughout the day. These imaginative accessories helped transform Le Golliwogg from a simple perfume into one of the most elaborate and collectible fragrance presentations of the Art Deco era.









Le Chick Chick:
Among the most whimsical and charming creations produced by Les Parfums de Vigny was the presentation for Le Chick-Chick, a floral fragrance created as a special Easter-themed perfume. Reflecting the playful and imaginative side of the Vigny brand, the perfume was housed in a delightful crystal bottle manufactured by Baccarat. Rather than relying on traditional bottle forms, the design transformed the flacon into a stylized baby chick, making it as much a decorative object as a perfume container. The crystal body was adorned with elegantly gilded wings that formed the sides of the chick, while an oversized gilded stopper served as its head, creating a charming figural silhouette that captured the spirit of springtime renewal and Easter festivities.
The bottle exemplified the growing trend during the 1920s toward novelty perfume presentations that blurred the line between fine fragrance packaging and decorative art. Despite its playful theme, the execution was luxurious, combining Baccarat's renowned crystal craftsmanship with rich gilded details. The Le Chick-Chick bottles were produced in three sizes, allowing customers to choose between a substantial 5⅜-inch version, a medium-sized 3⅜-inch bottle, or a petite 2⅞-inch miniature. Each was presented in an attractive floral-papered box featuring a drop-front design, a packaging style that enhanced the experience of opening and displaying the perfume. The floral motifs reinforced the fragrance's springtime character, while the elaborate presentation made the perfume a desirable gift item during the Easter season.
Today, surviving examples of Le Chick-Chick are admired not only for their rarity but also for their delightful originality. The combination of Baccarat crystal, gilded ornamentation, and imaginative figural design perfectly illustrates Vigny's ability to balance luxury with humor and fantasy. Alongside creations such as Le Golliwogg and other novelty perfumes from the house, Le Chick-Chick remains a wonderful example of how early twentieth-century perfume manufacturers transformed fragrance bottles into collectible works of art that delighted consumers long after the perfume itself had been used.
Guili-Guili:
Launched in 1932, Guili-Guili was an ambery fragrance created by Jacques Vogel and subtitled "Parfum des Tropiques" ("Perfume of the Tropics"). Like many of Vigny's more imaginative creations, the perfume drew inspiration from a colorful contemporary personality. It was named after the celebrated magician and illusionist Guili-Guili, an entertainer associated with Alexandria, Egypt, whose exotic stage persona captivated audiences throughout Europe and America. He was frequently confused with his rival, the Egyptian magician Gali-Gali, but Guili-Guili cultivated his own legend, humorously claiming to be 25,000 years old and performing in elaborate Egyptian costume. His act featured disappearing eggs and chicks, culminating in the astonishing feat of pulling a seemingly endless string of flags from his mouth. The magician became a sensation in fashionable society, and in 1926 was flown from Paris to New York at the expense of socialite Mrs. Vincent Astor to entertain her guests for a single evening.
The perfume's presentation reflected the mystery and theatricality of its namesake. The rare bottle featured a striking paneled crystal body mounted between a carved mahogany base and a sculptural mahogany top. The upper portion was carved to resemble an African-inspired mask, concealing the inner stopper and lending the bottle an air of ritualistic mystery, while the wooden foot allowed the flacon to stand upright. Standing approximately 6¼ inches tall, the design was unlike any conventional perfume bottle of the period and demonstrated Vigny's flair for transforming fragrance packaging into decorative art. Today, Guili-Guili remains one of the rarest and most sought-after Vigny bottles, admired for its unusual blend of exoticism, craftsmanship, and connection to one of the twentieth century's most memorable stage magicians.
Le Bosquet de Vigny:
Le Bosquet de Vigny was presented in a distinctive bottle that beautifully reflected the fragrance's garden-inspired theme and the refined decorative sensibilities of the Art Deco era. Designed by the renowned French illustrator and designer Georges Lepape, the flacon was crafted in an elegant jade-green glass, its silhouette crowned by a softly rounded arch-shaped top that lent the bottle a graceful architectural appearance. Delicate silver crisscrossing lines adorned the surface, evoking the trellises and latticework commonly found in formal French gardens. A squat conical stopper completed the design, providing a pleasing balance to the bottle's proportions.
Both the flacon and its presentation box were decorated with linear motifs intended to simulate an espalier, the horticultural technique of training trees and shrubs along a framework, reinforcing the "bosquet" or grove-like imagery suggested by the perfume's name. Manufactured by the glassmakers Société Parisienne de Verrerie and Verreries et Ateliers d'Art, the compact bottle measured approximately 3½ by 2⅜ inches, yet its thoughtful design and harmonious blend of color, form, and ornament made it a striking example of Vigny's commitment to artistic perfume presentation.
Be Lucky:
Introduced in 1925, Be Lucky was one of Les Parfums de Vigny's most whimsical and lighthearted creations, reflecting the house's fondness for novelty perfume presentations. The fragrance was housed in a crystal bottle produced by Baccarat, but it was the stopper that made the design truly memorable. Fashioned from white glass in the shape of a ball, the stopper was hand-painted with a stylized face featuring a broad, cheerful smile and topped with a jaunty black pointed cap, giving it the appearance of a playful clown or comic character.
The humorous design perfectly complemented the optimistic name Be Lucky, creating a perfume presentation intended to evoke happiness, good fortune, and amusement. While the figural stopper was unique to Be Lucky, the underlying crystal bottle form was also employed for another Vigny fragrance, C'est Une Mélange, demonstrating the company's practice of adapting successful bottle designs for multiple perfumes while distinguishing them through creative decorative elements. Today, surviving examples with the original painted stopper intact are particularly prized by collectors for their charm, rarity, and embodiment of the playful side of 1920s French perfumery.
Chambord:
Chambord was one of Vigny's postwar fragrances, introduced around 1950 and named after the magnificent Château de Chambord, the grand Renaissance château built in France's Loire Valley during the reign of King Francis I. Considered one of the masterpieces of French Renaissance architecture, Chambord is famous for its soaring towers, elaborate roofline, and association with royal splendor. Vigny's advertising embraced this heritage, describing Chambord as "the smell of celebration, luxury and gold," a fragrance that brought "the splendors of the Renaissance" to life while remaining thoroughly modern. The poetic copy suggested that the perfume could inspire dreams and ambitions, allowing the wearer to build castles not in distant Spain, but in "sweet France," evoking romance, elegance, and the enduring allure of French culture.
The bottle echoed these aristocratic themes. Manufactured by Verreries Brosse, the colorless pressed-glass flacon featured an oval cross-section and was ornamented with four molded scroll motifs that recalled classical decorative carving. Crowning the bottle was a striking gold fleur-de-lis stopper, the historic symbol of French royalty, which reinforced the perfume's connection to France's regal past. The result was a presentation that combined Renaissance-inspired grandeur with the clean, sophisticated styling of mid-century French perfumery.

Grenade Bottles:
Among Vigny's most recognizable standardized bottle designs were the so-called "grenade" flacons, used from the 1930s through the 1960s for fragrances such as Heure Intime, Beau Catcher, Guili Guili, and Golliwogg. Manufactured by Verreries Brosse, these versatile bottles featured a distinctive ovoid shape decorated with a puffed windowpane pattern that gave the glass a faceted, quilted appearance reminiscent of a hand grenade, from which collectors derived the nickname. The matching stoppers echoed the same geometric motif and were finished with a flat, highly polished top that provided a pleasing contrast to the textured body.
Earlier examples were fitted with elegant glass stoppers, while later production versions often utilized plastic stoppers as manufacturing practices evolved. Miniature bottles were typically equipped with practical brass screw caps. The design proved remarkably adaptable and was employed across multiple product formats, including parfum, eau de toilette, eau de cologne, and perfumed lotions. Its longevity and widespread use made the grenade flacon one of the most enduring bottle styles associated with Vigny, combining functional simplicity with a distinctive decorative character that remained fashionable for several decades.
- 0.18 oz (also listed as 5/28 oz or 5.32ml) Parfum stands 1.75" tall (considered the micro mini bottle has plastic screw cap)
- 5/16 oz (9.24ml, also listed as 1/4 oz) - Parfum bottle stands 2.5" tall
- 5/8 oz (18ml) - Parfum bottle stands 2.87" tall
- 1/4 oz (also listed as 2/7 oz, 8ml) Parfum bottle stands
- 1/2 oz (15ml) Parfum bottle stands 2.75" tall
- 1 oz (30ml) Parfum bottle stands 3" tall.
- stands 3.25" tall.
- 2 oz Eau de Cologne stands 3.75" tall.
- 4 oz Eau de Cologne bottle stands 4.75" tall.
- 8 oz Eau de Cologne bottle stands 5.75" tall.
- 16 oz Eau de Cologne bottle stands 9" tall.
- 4 oz Eau de Toilette bottle stands 4.75" tall
- 2 oz Lotion bottle stands 3.75" tall.
Catalog Reference Numbers:
- Ref. 211 - 1 oz Parfum - Heure Intime (grenade bottle)
- Ref. 212 = 1/4 oz Parfum - Heure Intime (grenade bottle)
- Ref. 214 = 1/4 oz (also listed as 2/7 oz, 8ml) Parfum - Heure Intime (grenade bottle)
- Ref. 275 - 4 oz Eau de Cologne - Heure Intime (grenade bottle)
- Ref. 314 = 1/2 oz Parfum - Beau Catcher (grenade bottle)
- Ref. 400 - 1/3 oz Parfum - Heure Intime (square handbag model in suede envelope)
- Ref. 427 - 2 oz Eau de Cologne - Golliwogg (grenade bottle)
- Ref. 428 = 4 oz Eau de Cologne - Golliwogg (grenade bottle)
- Ref. 94 - 1/3 oz Parfum - Golliwogg (golli bottle)
- Ref. 92 - 2/3 oz Parfum - Golliwogg (golli bottle)
- Ref. 90 - 1 1/2 oz Parfum - Golliwogg (golli bottle)
- Ref. 6009 - 1/2 oz - Golliwogg - Set of Three Perfumes (golli bottles)
- Ref. 6009 - 1/2 oz - Set of Three Perfumes (grenade bottles)
- Ref. 6014 - 1 oz - Set of Three Perfumes (grenade bottles)
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