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| Indelibly marked in my memory. My bottle was smaller, but the image is the same. Image taken from the Maja perfume Pinterest board: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/coletah/maja-perfume/ |
When I was a girl perfume samples would get passed on to me, either by my mother or my paternal grandmother Margaret. I think Grandmother would get a ton of these samples at at the upscale cosmetic counters she frequented. I loved these little things--I pretended they were fancy liquor bottles for my Barbies. One that I always remember had a Spanish lady in red and black on the label. Looking up "perfume Spanish lady" today on Google brought up the exact image I was thinking about. Maja perfume. I'm not sure how that smells when still good. I have some dim memory of it smelling like all the others by the time it got to me--old perfume past it's expiration date.
The blog Myrurgia Perfumes has more info.
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As I'm around your mother's age I believe I remember these, but the one I always think of is Blue Waltz which we bought in the 50s at the "dime store" -- like Woolworth's or Newberry's -- A small bottle with a blue top. So I just looked it up and its still sold! There were many photos of the bottles we bought at age 10 or 12.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many objects like these exist in the world, even decades later.
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