Description: French perfumer Marc Fael utilized an utterly unexpected vehicle for the packaging of his fine fragrance, “My Jerrycan.” Fael’s perfume, produced and sold in the immediate postwar years, married a glamorous fragrance with a very unglamorous piece of gear. The “Jerry can” was a German military canister (Wehr-macht-Einheitskanister) intended for one of the most precious and scarcest resources—fuel—but adapted later for many other purposes. The Allies reverse-engineered and adopted its stackable, leakproof design; ads for the perfume played on the motif, noting that the two-inch-tall container was “non-spillable for the purse.” In 1946, this fragrance cost $12.50—nearly $200 today. Factor in the extreme deprivation of war experienced by so many, and perfume seemed even more luxurious. It was the scent of an earlier time, a normal time, but with a trace of war remaining. Height 2” I could not get the top open but you still can smell the fragrance
Price: 72.1 USD
Location: Vero Beach, Florida
End Time: 2024-10-13T22:45:51.000Z
Shipping Cost: 6 USD
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